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Monday 16/7/12 Roger Federer breaks the all time weeks at no. 1 record. CONGRATS ROG!

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#1 ·
Amazing result champ - your consistency is unrivaled, long may it continue!

*raises glass* Congratulations Roger.
 
#243 ·
Roger is just better than Sampras in every way. The best player of all time. The only player today that comes close to his talent and skill is Murray, and he's still far behind.

Suck it, Fedhaters. All of his records, his slam total and his entire career in general. Look at all of it and cry :wavey:
 
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#248 ·
Sapeod I agree with you.Murray is closer to Federer than ahy other player but still far from Roger. They both have very good hands and talent. The problem is in their head just sometimes they want to be more than perfect.It is good but it works against them.I love their matches and
Wimbeldon final this year was very high quality. But i can not say that about AO or US open Yes
there was drama but nothing more.
 
#249 · (Edited)
Negative. Only blind fools can compare talents of Olderer and Mugray. Even tho Olderer is unbearable balerina his talent is miles away from Mugray ones. There is nothing great that makes Mugray special compare to other players. Normal grinder and pusher with solid serve, good BH and good movement. Mugray overall is overrated, and only fools like cabbage thinks he have great talent.
 
#265 ·
The record is tainted by the fact that most of Noserer's weeks at #1 were in a mug era of 2003-2007. With no competition, thrashing slam titans like Baldenko, Hewitt, Roddick and Clownbandian it was very easy for Noserer to dominate the top spot. His competition had no balls, talent, ruthlessness, ambition and the will to be the best. Tells a lot about his supposed dominance when a baby clay courter was his biggest rival in slams. But hey, he is still GOAT amongst his fangirl legion who think beating titans like Drugsquet and Haas in semis of a slam is a massive deal.
 
#266 ·
at the end of the day, nobody of any significance feels the same way as you. no one. absolutely no one that has any ounce of credibility in the world of tennis or professional sport as a whole, would back you up on this or your other relentless attacks on "noserer" or his "fangirl legions".

i understand that it's very important for you to feel recognised, but please note that it's possible to respect a player of federer's calibre whilst still acknowledging that you simply prefer nadal's game.

but good lord. i read these boards from time to time, and every thread i go to you're speaking the same thing. are you worried that you're not being noticed? well, you are! much like the child who was crying throughout the film i saw on friday, everyone took note.

you are far too good of a poster and knowledgeable of a tennis fan to resort to such amateur theatrics.
 
#271 ·
Thread title ought to be changed. Fed has not broken the all time weeks at #1 record.

The Open Era record, yes, but not the all time record.

1. Pancho Gonzales- 364 weeks
2. Bill Tilden- 330 weeks
3. Don Budge- 303 weeks
4. Roger Federer- 299 weeks

He ought to pass or at least tie Budge in the next few weeks, and may tie Tilden next year. Gonzales will be tough to catch, but not impossible.
 
#292 ·
Uglyrer forum, boooooriiiiiing.
:zzz::zzz::zzz::zzz:::zzz:
 
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#297 ·
On the ATP website, the weekly update of the rankings started only on the 25th of june 1984.

Before that, except in cases when the situation was 100% clear (a player being very much ahead of the others), it seems impossible to know an exact number of weeks at this or that rank, you can only get a maximum if the case was optimal for him because he could always have lost a rank for a few weeks if a weekly update had been made.

Now Fed has 300 weeks guaranteed, 302 if Djokovic doesn't ask a wild-card in Basel or in tournaments next week.
 
#298 ·
I second this statement, although I did mention this before. Fed's 300 is also official, because it is backed up by solid data. Before 1973 when the computer rankings were introduced, the #1 status was an unclear vortex of collected data, nothing official, nothing certain. It's exactly like the world population approximation before recension was introduced. Nobody knows the exact numbers, just estimates, but the error chance is high.

Also, LOL, duong's post was number 300 in this thread. Destiny...
 
#299 ·
I second this statement, although I did mention this before. Fed's 300 is also official, because it is backed up by solid data. Before 1973 when the computer rankings were introduced, the #1 status was an unclear vortex of collected data, nothing official, nothing certain. It's exactly like the world population approximation before recension was introduced. Nobody knows the exact numbers, just estimates, but the error chance is high.
Are you guys sure? I see on the wikipedia list that Borg became number 1 on august 23rd 1977 and held that position for just 1 week.
 
#302 ·
McEnroe also got one week in 1980 - aug 11th. And there were five more "one-weekers" in 1982 and 1983, courtesy of Connors and McEnroe.
http://www.tennis-x.com/stats/atprankhist.shtml

They did occasionally release rankings two or more weeks in a row, just not regularly.
I did say 1973. Before 1973, there were no computer rankings, so the uncertainty is high, after it, the number of issues per year increased. And here is how from the ITF site:

They were not weekly as they are now (except for non issues in the middle Slams or during the events in Miami and Indian Wells) until 1979 with there being the following number of issues in the early years (and not always on a Monday).

1973 - 7 issues
1974 - 11 issues
1975 - 13 issues
1976 - 23 issues
1977 - 34 issues
1978 - 40 issues
1979 - 43 issues
So yeah, Borg got one week because there was a moment when two issues were published one week apart. So did McEnroe. Summer #1 moments were possible due to the fact that the season was intense during the summer, so frequent ATP ranking issues were published then
 
#305 ·
Roger Federer is so completely awesome in so many ways! :hearts:

The thing is that Federer fans can say that without being accused of trolling and/or fangirlism since it is a 1000% totally accurate statement. And yet some douchebags will.
 
#307 ·
Noserer :yeah:

With him completing the crybaby slam (crying at all 4 slams) this year and this "spartan" record, he's surely going to be mentioned as an all time great player. His slam count may be inflated, but he was still good enough to take advantage. He should send Roddick, Hewitt and many of his other pigeons a lifetime supply of bird feed. :rocker2:
 
#309 ·
Winning a slam, regaining the #1 rank dethroning prime No2e past 30 yo. True and real Spartan. :worship:
 
#308 ·
I believe that in this thread celebrating the last great record Federer had to break, reasonable and poised Federer fans have the right to embrace complete Fedtardism.

But only in this thread.
 
#321 ·
good to smash that clown Mugpras record into the ground. He must be the most overated "GOAT" around. Vulturing weak eras like no tomorrow. Disgusting mug, only Meth & Marraige kept Agassi from a more consistant challenege. Agassi = gimp mind.
 
#325 ·
Good point about Nadal having the most weeks at #2 while Roger has the most at #1. Never thought about it like that before :)
 
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