Roger Federer Still Taking In Win

4 months ago 07th Jul 10:09

After reclaiming the Wimbledon Title on Sunday Roger Federer has admitted that he is still coming to terms with his historic win.

In clinching his sixth title at SW19 the Swiss player became the greatest Grand Slam winner in the history of the game with a fifteenth win.

He overtook Pete Sampras' record of fourteen Grand Slam titles. a record he equalled just weeks ago when he won his maiden French Open title in Paris.

But the new world number one was made to fight for the title by American Andy Roddick who took Federer to five sets in a bid to win his first Wimbledon title.

But it was Federer who held his nerve to finally see off Roddick in a final set that lasted thirty games winning 5-7 7-6 (8-6) 7-6 (7-5) 3-6 16-14.

Speaking to BBC Sport Federer said: "I'm still processing the whole thing because a lot has happened in the last few weeks.

"It was such a historic day in tennis and me being the main character in this... I have so many pictures going through my mind."

It was just twelve months ago when Federer, who was the king of Centre Court, lost his Wimbledon title to Spaniard Rafael Nadal in their third final against one another.

With that win Nadal also became the world number one. Despite winning the U.S. Open later that year Federer was reduced to tears in January when he lost another five set thriller to Nadal in Australia leaving people questioning if he would ever reach Sampras' record.

But with Nadal out early in the French due to injury the way was left open for the Swiss player to win for the first time at Roland Garros to finally equal the record before going on to reclaim his Wimbledon title.

However Federer acknowledged that his celebrations were quite reserved out of respect from Andy Roddick.

"It was a combination of being maybe a little bit sad for Andy after seeing Rafa was sad for me at Wimbledon last year," he explained.

"I felt like it was such a gruelling match, everybody was tired and felt for Andy so I didn't want to make a drama about it but I knew the importance and that it was one of the greatest moments in my tennis career.

"Of course I always feel people should be happy for the guy who won and not for the guy who lost.

"I just kept it together after being so close to victory for so long, it was just a big explosion, and then after that it was all over and it sunk in and took me a while."

Looking forward Federer must now defend his U.S. Open title in September and with only around a thousand points separating the top three; Federer, Nadal and Andy Murray, the race to world number one by the end of the year is well and truly on.