#NYTimes – #Tennis: #Federer Posts 100th Match Win at #Australian Open


135220-qkzpubzlnf-1579877955

Roger Federer has been pushed all the way before recording his 100th match win at the Australian Open and reaching the Round of 16 at Melbourne Park for the 18th time with a 4-6, 7-6 (2), 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (8) victory over John Millman.

Federer has won six Australian championships among his record 20 major titles and is still a crowd favorite on Rod Laver Arena, despite playing an Aussie who’d beaten him at the 2018 U.S. Open in their only previous meeting at a major.

The 38-year-old Federer is the first player to record 100 match wins at two different Grand Slam tournaments. He improved his Wimbledon record to 101-13 last year.

Read more at: https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/01/23/sports/tennis/ap-ten-australian-open-the-latest.html



Categories: Tennis

Tags: , ,

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

%d bloggers like this: