The Brisbane final was the one everybody wanted. Both former number 1’s and multiple grand slam winners and comeback queens battling in out in the final.
Nobody was disappointed in a final that featured everything and shows us what we were missing the last couple of years watching boring 18 year old “next big thing” baseliners.
The highlights tell it all.
Found this on the ATP website. Very interesting! Have a look (All courtesy of atpworldtour.com)
The man behind the stats
Most Aces In A Match
78*, Ivo Karlovic (L), 2009 Davis Cup SF vs. Radek Stepanek
55, Ivo Karlovic (L), 2009 Roland Garros 1st Rd. vs. Lleyton Hewitt
51, Joachim Johansson (L), 2005 Australian Open 4th Rd. vs. A. Agassi
51, Ivo Karlovic (L), 2005 Wimbledon 1st Rd. vs. Daniele Bracciali
50, Roger Federer (W), 2009 Wimbledon Final vs. Andy Roddick
Most Match Wins In A Season
92, Roger Federer, 2006
82, Rafael Nadal, 2008
81, Roger Federer, 2005
80, Lleyton Hewitt, 2001
79, Rafael Nadal, 2005
Most Titles In A Season
12, Roger Federer, 2006
11, Roger Federer, 2005
11, Rafael Nadal, 2005
11, Roger Federer, 2004
8, Rafael Nadal, 2008
Most Match Points Saved In A Match
10, Rainer Schuettler d. A. Seppi, 36 76(13) 60, 2004 Kitzbuehel 2nd Rd.
9, Igor Andreev d. R. Soderling 36 76(14) 64, 2006 Indian Wells 3rd Rd.
9, Vincent Spadea d. F. Serra 75 16 46 76(7) 97, 2004 R. Garros 1st Rd.
9, Jiri Vanek d. Bohdan Ulihrach 26 62 76(5), 2004 Sopot 1st Rd.
9, Hicham Arazi d. Tommy Haas 26 76(8) 75, 2001 Hamburg 2nd Rd.
9, Felix Mantilla d. Albert Portas 26 76(4) 63, 2001 Palermo SF
Fewest Matches Lost In A Season (Top 10 player)
4, Roger Federer, 2005
5, Roger Federer, 2006
6, Roger Federer, 2004
9, Roger Federer, 2007
9, Lleyton Hewitt, 2005
Most Times Qualified Into Main Draw In Decade
23, Cyril Saulnier
22, Christophe Rochus
21, Jan Hernych
20, Andreas Seppi
19, Albert Portas
19, Julien Benneteau
19, Teimuraz Gabashvili
Other Notable Stats Of The Decade
Longest Match Time (Best-of-five sets)
6:33* (over two days), Fabrice Santoro d. Arnaud Clement 64 63 67(5) 36 16-14, 2004 Roland Garros 1st Rd.
Longest Match Time (Best-of-three sets)
4:03*, Rafael Nadal d. Novak Djokovic 36 76(5) 76(9), 2009 ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Madrid SF
Longest Clay Court Match Winning Streak
81*, Rafael Nadal, April 2005-May 2007
Longest Grass Court Match Winning Streak
65*, Roger Federer, June 2002-July 2008
Longest Hard Court Match Winning Streak
56*, Roger Federer, February 2005-March 2006
Most Aces In A Season
1,318, Ivo Karlovic, 2007
Most Weeks at No. 1
263 (as of Dec. 28, ‘09), Roger Federer, 2004-09
Most Consecutive Weeks at No. 1
237*, Roger Federer, Feb. 2, 2004-Aug. 17, 2008
Most Clay Court Match Wins In A Season
50, Rafael Nadal, 2005
Most Hard Court Match Wins In A Season
59*, Roger Federer, 2006
Most Grass Court Match Wins In A Season
16, Lleyton Hewitt, 2001
Most Clay Court Titles (Decade)
25, Rafael Nadal (2004-09)
Most Hard Court Titles (Decade)
39, Roger Federer (2002-09)
Most Grass Court Titles (Decade)
11*, Roger Federer (2003-07, ‘09)
* Open Era record (since 1968)
The Champion
For Davydenko its the dream end to his season. For the others, not so much. But what is for sure is that Federer has cemented his place as world number one and has shown that he isn’t ready to give it up just yet…….much more to come
Should have reached a little further. Sorry Andy!
Murray, to the disgust of much of the British public, is out of this years year end masters. Even though he was victorious over over Verdasco, he didnt have a high enough percentage of games won to get through to the semi’s. Had Murray won 2 more games over his matches he would have got through to the semi’s. It’s complicated stuff, bit the decision eventually came!
Del Potro deserved it.
Tomorrow will decide the other two semifinalists! Soderling is already through, I think Davydenko will be the other.
Smart
I love the Swiss Davis cup tracksuits. They always look really professional when they play.
Davis Cup results:
Roger Federer won his 15th grand slam title to make him the most successful man in grand slam history and will regain the number 1 ranking on Monday. An epic battle that lasted over 4 hours with a final score of 5-7 7-6 7-6 3-6 16-14. A real match that ended on a Roddick error but the final set could have gone either way.
Alot of credit has to go to Roddick, he came out and played his best and really fought hard and if he didn’t miss that volley on set point in the second set, who knows? It was a great two weeks for Roddick and I’m sure he will gain alot of confidence.
Something disappointing though at the presentation when Federer showed off a jacket with “15″ on the back of it which he put on when he lifted the trophy. Very arrogant I (and many others too I’m sure) think.
Federer
Federer v. Roddick
A very exciting match today. Federer takes on Andy Roddick who he beat in the final here twice before. Roddick is playing very well lately and Federer is playing pretty amazingly it has to be said.
The head to head record is phenomenally top heavy in favour of Federer
Pete Sampras said he also may attend the final so the pressure will be on with some of the all time greats looking on.
Play starts at 2pm.
Enjoy watching history being made
Venus Rosewater Dish
As you probably realise by now, I am not a fan of the Williams sisters at all, especially Serena. I was watching the final today with the hope that Venus would win it, or better yet, come back from match point down to truly devastate Serena but it just wasn’t too be. 
Anyone who watched the matched today would have been disappointed. Hardley any rallies of note and not a singles sliced ground-stroke. Very disappointing.
I suppose the only consolation is that the trophy/plate “thing” the Womens singles winner gets is called the “Venus Rosewater Dish” so I can relax knowing that Serenas victory will ALWAYS remind her of her sister anytime she thinks of her title.
He deserved it
Yep its true, Roddick beat Murray today in 4 sets and played some of the best tennis he’s ever played, judging by the highlights. He played a very smart match and came out with a great game play to beat Murray. He serve and volleyed loadssss of time and was just really consistent. Well done Roddick.
Federer obviously won against Haas too. It wasn’t the most exciting of matches with both players holding serve fairly routinely until Federer could break Haas in the 2nd and 3rd sets for a fairly comfortable straight sets victory.
A quote I made in an earlier post before Wimbledon started a few weeks ago held up pretty well :p
The British public fooling themselves into thinking that they will have a British winner.
And I suppose I should mention the bitches Williams sisters since I “forgot” to yesterday. They both wo their semi-finals for an overrated final against each other tomorrow(match-fixing, anyone). Fantastic… Oh, and center court was so empty during the women’s matches yesterday, it was bordering on a joke!
Mr. Roddick
Haas who suffered many injuries and whom was surely destined for great things when he was world number 2 and rising when his parents were almost killed in a car accident in 2002. Haas took the year off to take care of him and never reached such heights in the ranking again, well, not yet anyway!
Haas is the 24th seed but never reached a semifinal here before. His solid all court game and amazing backhand took him through the tournament so far and I really hope he gives Federer a good match, although I think beating him is just a step too far.
Juan Carlos Ferrero was sadly beaten by Murray today.
Roddick and Hewitt played a 5 set epic with Hewitt showing the fighting qualities that took him to world number one but he just couldn’t get the better of Roddick today.
The semi-final lineup:
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