List of Career Achievements By Roger Federer - Other Selected Achievements

Other Selected Achievements

1. Federer has won an open era record 12 grasscourt titles.
2. Federer has won an all-time record 52 hardcourt titles. Federer is the only player to win 50 titles on a particular surface.
3. Federer has won an open era record 56 outdoor titles (tied with Guillermo Vilas).
4. Federer is the only player to win at least ten titles each on clay, grass, outdoor hardcourt and indoor hardcourt in the open era.
5. By 2005, Federer had won singles and doubles titles on all four surfaces: hardcourt, clay, carpet, and grass. (Singles: Sydney 2002 (hard), Hamburg 2002 (clay), Milan 2001 (carpet), and Halle 2003 (grass); Doubles: Rotterdam 2001 (hard), Gstaad 2001 (clay), Moscow 2002 (carpet), and Halle 2005 (grass)). He has also won singles and doubles titles on indoor and outdoor hardcourts.
6. Federer has won titles on clay, grass, outdoor hardcourt and indoor hardcourt in the same season six times (2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008 and 2012). In 2006 Federer missed out on a clay title, and in 2009 he missed out on an indoor hardcourt title.
7. Federer was the first man in the history of tennis to win a tournament on blue clay at the 2012 Mutua Madrid Open.
8. Federer is the second player to record more than 500 match wins on hardcourts after Andre Agassi (598) and the third player overall per any court type (Guillermo Vilas leads with 629 match wins on clay).
9. Federer is the only player to win all five tournament types in a single season (Grand Slam, ATP World Tour Finals, Masters 1000, World Tour 500, & World Tour 250). He has achieved this four times (2004, 2006, 2007 and 2010). Each time he has won all five types of tournament on hardcourts.
10. Federer is the first player to hold the record for the most titles in four different tournament categories at the same time (March 18 - April 22, 2012, May 13–21, 2012, and August 19, 2012 – present) - 16/17 GS (outright), 6 YEC (outright), 19/20/21 Masters 1000 (tied) and 12 ATP 500 (tied). Pete Sampras retired holding the record for the most titles in three different tournament categories - 14 GS (outright but surpassed), 5 YEC (tied but surpassed), 12 ATP 500 (outright but since tied).
11. Federer is the only player to win 7 different tournaments at least 5 times each. As of 2012, he has won 5 titles at Halle, Basel, US Open, Dubai and Cincinnati, 6 titles at ATP World Tour Finals and 7 at Wimbledon.
12. Federer is the only player to win tournaments on four different continents in three different seasons (2004, 2006 and 2007). Pete Sampras is the only other player to achieve this feat in consecutive seasons (1993 and 1994).
13. Federer has won singles tournaments in an open era record 18 different countries: Australia, Austria, Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Portugal, Qatar, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and the United States.
14. Federer has won 76 titles in his career, the fourth most singles titles won by a tennis player in the open era (17 GS, 6 YEC, 21 Masters 1000, 12 ATP 500 Series, 20 ATP 250 Series). In the open era only Connors (109), Lendl (94) and McEnroe (77) have won more titles than Federer in their career.
15. Federer has appeared in 110 finals during his career, third in the Open Era, behind Connors and Lendl.
16. In 2004, Federer became the eighth player in the open era to win at least 11 singles titles in a year and was the first male player in tennis history to win at least 10 titles in a season without losing in a tournament final.
17. In 2005, Federer became the fourth player in the open era to win at least 11 singles titles in a year twice and the first to do so in consecutive years since Jimmy Connors from 1973–74.
18. In 2006, Federer reached the final in 16 of the 17 tournaments he played, setting a new record of 94.1 percent finals appearances and was also the first man since Thomas Muster in 1995 to win 12 titles in one year. Federer is the only player in the open era to have won at least 10 singles titles in each of three consecutive years.
19. From 2004 through 2006, Federer won 94.3% of his singles matches (247–15) and 69.4% of the singles tournaments he entered (34 titles in 49 tournaments, including eight of twelve Grand Slam tournaments).
20. Federer has won 80% of his matches each year for 10 consecutive years (2003–2012). Connors won 80% of his matches each year for a record 12 consecutive years (1973–1984).
21. Federer won 90% of his matches each year for 3 consecutive years (2004–2006). Borg won 90% of his matches each year for a record 4 consecutive years (1977–1980).
22. Federer has the highest career winning percentage in tiebreaks since the introduction of the tiebreak - 66.1% (at the end of the 2011 season).
23. Federer won 31 consecutive sets (10 consecutive straight-set matches) beginning with his Tennis Masters Cup round robin match against Andy Roddick on November 14, 2006, and ending with his first round match against Kristian Pless at the Dubai Tennis Championships on February 26, 2007. Federer also won 30 consecutive sets (12 consecutive straight-set matches) from 2004–05 and 28 consecutive sets (11 consecutive straight-set matches) in 2008.
24. In three tournaments that Federer won (2005 Qatar ExxonMobil Open, 2008 Gerry Weber Open and 2012 Western & Southern Open) he won every game he served. Federer is the only player to win a Masters 1000 title without dropping serve.
25. Federer has never retired from a match. He has withdrawn only twice during a tournament, the first time when he was due to play against James Blake in the quarter-finals of the Paris Masters in 2008, and the second when he was due to play Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the semi-finals of the 2012 Qatar Open.
26. Federer has earned over $75,000,000 in prize money - a record.
27. In 2007, Federer earned a then record U.S. $10,130,620 in prize money, surpassing his own previous record of $8,343,885 set in 2006. Novak Djokovic holds the current record as he earned U.S. $12,619,803 in prize money in 2011.
28. Federer is the fourth male player to win both the Junior and Senior Wimbledon singles titles in his career after Bjorn Borg (1972 Junior Champion, 5 time Senior Champion), Pat Cash (1982 Junior Champion, 1987 Senior Champion) and Stefan Edberg (1983 Junior Champion, 1988 & 1990 Senior Champion). Roger Federer was Junior Champion in 1998 and has since won the Senior title 7 times.