{"id":267273,"date":"2025-11-07T07:14:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T07:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/267273\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T07:14:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T07:14:16","slug":"the-legendary-tennis-record-roger-federer-once-admitted-he-had-no-chance-of-beating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/267273\/","title":{"rendered":"The legendary tennis record Roger Federer once admitted he had ‘no chance’ of beating"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Roger Federer broke plenty of records during his tennis career, including \u2018number of consecutive weeks ranked number one in the world\u2019.<\/p>\n

In February 2007, Federer surpassed Jimmy Connors\u2019<\/a> record of 160 consecutive weeks spent at world number one.<\/p>\n

The American\u2019s record had stood for 30 years, having held the top spot in the ATP<\/a> rankings between July 1974 and August 1977.<\/p>\n

\"JimmyPhoto by Hulton Archive\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

During a press conference celebrating Federer\u2019s<\/a> achievement, he was asked about several other records he had a chance of breaking.<\/p>\n

While Federer admitted he hadn\u2019t given it much thought, he insisted there was one record he had no chance of taking.<\/p>\n

Roger Federer said he had \u2018no chance\u2019 of breaking Martina Navratilova\u2019s record of 354 titles<\/p>\n

The Swiss legend was confident that one tennis record would remain untouched by him and the rest of the tour.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would be great to be the best ever tennis player, men\u2019s and women\u2019s,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I think we\u2019ll have no chance of ever beating Martina Navratilova\u2019s<\/a> over 300 titles, you know, singles, doubles, mixed. It\u2019s incredible.<\/p>\n

\"MartinaPhoto by Derek Hudson\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cAlso, Margaret Court\u2019s records. I\u2019ve heard about them. Of course, there\u2019s interest, too, in the women\u2019s game. Still, obviously, I\u2019m more focused on the men\u2019s. I didn\u2019t know the streak of the women\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n

WTA legend Martina Navratilova won a record 354 titles during her career, a number that will take some beating.<\/p>\n

Martina Navratilova\u2019s title recordSingles titles \u2013 167 (Open Era record)Doubles titles \u2013 177 (Open Era record)Mixed doubles titles \u2013 10Total titles \u2013 354 (Open Era record)<\/p>\n

With very few players competing in both singles and doubles in the modern game, the chances of someone taking that record from Navratilova are slim.<\/p>\n

Federer finished his career with 111 titles in comparison, falling short of Navratilova\u2019s record by some distance.<\/p>\n

Roger Federer\u2019s career titlesSingles titles \u2013 103Doubles titles \u2013 8Total titles \u2013 111<\/p>\n

The Swiss star knew that record was unattainable even back in 2007, but had his eye on a few more ATP Tour landmarks.<\/p>\n

\u201cI look definitely at most titles, most Grand Slams won, most weeks at No. 1, these are the really big records, plus the one I\u2019ve won just now,\u201d said Federer.<\/p>\n

\"RogerPhoto by Matthew Stockman\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cI am dreaming about maybe ever breaking those, but we\u2019ll only know at the end of my career.\u201d<\/p>\n

Federer managed to get his hands on two of those records, but has since been surpassed by Serbia\u2019s Novak Djokovic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Most men\u2019s Grand Slam titlesRankNameCountryGrand Slams1Novak DjokovicSerbia242Rafael NadalSpain223Roger FedererSwitzerland204Pete SamprasUSA145Bjorn BorgSweden11Most men\u2019s singles Grand Slam titles (Open Era)Most weeks at number oneRankNameCountryWeeks at number one1Novak DjokovicSerbia4282Roger FedererSwitzerland3103Pete SamprasUSA2864Ivan LendlCzechia2705Jimmy ConnorsUSA268Most weeks spent as ATP number oneMost ATP titlesRankNameCountryATP titles1Jimmy ConnorsUSA1092Roger FedererSwitzerland1033Novak DjokovicSerbia1004Ivan LendlCzechia945Rafael NadalSpain92Most ATP titles won (Open Era)<\/p>\n

Those records may have come and gone, but nobody has come close to surpassing Federer\u2019s 237 consecutive weeks atop the world rankings.<\/p>\n

Will anyone break Roger Federer\u2019s consecutive weeks record?<\/p>\n

After taking the top spot from Connors in February 2007, Federer stayed at world number one until August 2008, when Rafael Nadal<\/a> finally reached the summit of men\u2019s tennis<\/p>\n

His 237 consecutive weeks are the most any ATP Tour player has ever spent ranked number one in the world.<\/p>\n

1. Roger Federer \u2013 237 weeks (February 2004 \u2013 August 2008)2. Jimmy Connors \u2013 160 weeks (July 1974 \u2013 August 1977)3. Ivan Lendl \u2013 157 weeks (September 1985 \u2013 September 1988)4. Novak Djokovic \u2013 122 weeks (July 2014 \u2013 November 2016)5. Pete Sampras \u2013 102 weeks (April 1996 \u2013 March 1998)<\/p>\n

The current world number one, Jannik Sinner<\/a>, has only spent one week at the top of the rankings, leaving him with a lot of work to do\u2026<\/p>\n

Sinner would need to fend off Carlos Alcaraz and the rest of his ATP rivals for another 237 weeks if he wants to break Federer\u2019s record.<\/p>\n

Therefore, Federer\u2019s record is guaranteed to remain untouched until April 2030 at the earliest.<\/p>\n

Sinner won\u2019t want to worry himself with Federer\u2019s record just yet, however, as he\u2019ll need a perfect ATP Finals campaign to stop Alcaraz from overtaking him.<\/p>\n

The 2025 ATP Finals are scheduled to begin on Sunday, November 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow us on Google Discover Roger Federer broke plenty of records during his tennis career, including \u2018number of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[6733,49,48,3271,2189,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-267273","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-atp","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-martina-navratilova","12":"tag-roger-federer","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}