Federer inches closer to another Sampras record

London, England (GenevaLunch) – Roger Federer neatly defeated Scotland’s Andy Murray in three sets, 3-6 6-3 6-1 at the ATP World Tour in London’s o2 arena. The Swiss player thus ensures that he will keep his ranking as the world’s top player for the rest of 2009. He finishes the year at the ATP World Tour Champion: “With five year-end number 1 finishes, Federer ties Jimmy Connors’ mark and now stands just one back of Pete Sampras on the list of all-time ATP World Tour Champions. Sampras finished as the No. 1 player six straight years, from 1993-98,” the tennis association notes on its site.

Federer held the top slot in world tennis for 237 straight weeks from 2 February 2004 to 17 August 2008.

Rafael Nadal then ended his streak but Federer returned to the number one position by winning at Wimbledon 6 July 2009.

Murray is one of the world’s rare players to have won matches over Federer more often than he has lost, six times out of 10.

Links to other sites: AFP/Yahoo, ATP, Scottish Daily Record

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