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ATP 1000s & WT Finals

Roger Federer’s ATP Masters 1000 and ATP World Tour Finals Records

Roger holds quite a few ATP Masters 1000 records on his own in addition to a number of records he shares with Rafa Nadal, Novak Djokovic or Andre Agassi. Further down the page is a separate section of the Maestro’s illustrious year-end ATP World Tour Finals Records.

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 ATP World Tour Masters 1000

 All Time Record Holder

  1. Federer has won all the non-clay Masters series events.
  2. Federer has won a record number of matches at this level with 350 match wins.
  3. Federer has played a record number of matches at this level, having played 449 Masters matches.
  4. Federer is the only player to have played a Masters 1000 final in 11 different cities (2002 Miami, 2002 Hamburg, 2003 Rome, 2004 Indian Wells, 2004 Toronto, 2005 Cincinnati, 2006 Monte Carlo, 2006 Madrid, 2007 Montreal, 2010 Shanghai, and 2011 Paris). He was able to achieve this feat due to Hamburg being replaced with Shanghai in 2009 and also because the Canadian event alternates between Toronto and Montreal each year.
  5. Federer is the only player to win all four North American ATP World Tour Masters 1000 events at least twice.
  6. Federer is the first player to win three titles at Indian Wells in a row (2004–06).
  7. Federer has won a record seven titles at the Cincinnati Masters (2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014 & 2015).
  8. Federer completed the Sunshine Double of winning Indian Wells and Miami back to back two years in a row in 2005 and 2006. Djokovic surpassed this by winning the Sunshine Double three years in a row from 2014-2016. In 2017, Federer won it for the Sunshine Double for the third time. He is still behind Djokovic who won it 4 times in total (2011 and 2014-2016).
  9. Federer has won a record six titles at the third (second since 2011) clay court ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event, with a record four titles in Hamburg (2002, 2004, 2005 & 2007) and two titles in Madrid (2009 & 2012).
  10. Federer became the first ATP player to record 300 Masters 1000 match wins when he won his 2nd Round match in Cincinnati 2014.
  11. Federer became the only man to win an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event without dropping serve at Cincinnati (2012). He faced three break points in the tournament and won all matches in straight sets. He repeated the same feat 3 years later in 2015 when he won the event without dropping serve. Again, he faced only three break points in the tournament and won all matches in straight sets.
  12. At the age of 35, Federer became the oldest ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event finalist and winner ever when he won Indian Wells 2017. He extended his own record when he won Miami 2017. When he won Shanghai 2017 he broke his own record again, as by this time he had turned 36 years old.

 

Record Tied

  1. Federer, Nadal and Djokovic are the only players to reach the finals of six ATP World Tour Masters 1000 titles in a season. Federer reached the final of six out of the seven events he played in 2006, establishing a record of 86% of ATP World Tour Masters 1000 finals reached in a season.
  2. Federer, Djokovic and Nadal are the only players to have reached the finals at all of the current 9 ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournaments.
  3. Federer was the first to win nine consecutive finals (2004 Indian Wells – 2006 Miami), later equaled by Nadal (2005 Monte Carlo – 2007 Rome). They ended each others streaks.
  4. Federer has won 21 hard-court Masters series titles, he is in 2nd place behind Djokovic’s 22.
  5. Federer is the first player to have won three masters series events at least four times each, Indian Wells, Hamburg and Cincinnati.
  6. Federer is also the first player to win the first two ATP World Tour Masters 1000 events of the year (the Indian Wells-Miami double) two years in a row (2005–06). Djokovic surpassed this by winning the double three years in a row 2014-2016.
  7. Federer won all four North American ATP World Tour Masters 1000  tournaments a record 17 times in total (IW x5, MI x3, CA x2, CI x7). Djokovic is in 2nd place with 15 (IW x5, MI x6, CA x4, CI x0).
  8. Federer, Nadal, and Djokovic are the only players to play 4 or more finals in a row. Federer played 4 finals in a row four times (Indian Wells 2006 – Rome 2006, Hamburg 2007 – Madrid 2007, Madrid 2010 – Shanghai 2010, Indian Wells 2017 – Shanghai 2017 {He skipped all the clay Masters and Cincinnati in 2017). Djokovic played 7 finals in a row from 2015 Rome – 2016 Miami. Nadal played 5 finals in a row also in 2011 and played 6 finals in a row 2013 (he skipped Miami).

 

In the Record Books

  1. Federer won 29 consecutive Tennis Masters Series matches before losing to Nadal in the final of the 2006 Masters Series Monte-Carlo. This was a record until Djokovic won 31 consecutive matches in 2011.
  2. Federer has the third highest number of Masters titles with 27. He is behind Nadal and Djokovic who have 30 each. 
  3. Federer has won 7 different ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournaments (2002 Hamburg/2014 Shanghai, 2004 Indian Wells, 2004 Toronto, 2005 Miami, 2005 Cincinnati, 2006 Madrid, and 2011 Paris). This record is tied with Agassi and Nadal but they are all behind Djokovic for the most different Masters 1000 tournaments won; Djokovic has won 8 and is missing only Cincinnati.
  4. Federer has reached 46 ATP World Tour Masters 1000 finals, a record he shares with Nadal. He is in 2nd place for the most SFs reached at this level with 60 behind Nadal who has reached 64.
  5. Federer was the first player to win four ATP World Tour Masters 1000 titles in a season (2005). Nadal (4 titles in 2005 and 5 titles in 2013) and Djokovic (5 titles in 2011 and 6 titles in 2015) have since matched or surpassed this. Federer won four out of the five events he played that year (2005) for a record 80% season win rate in ATP World Tour Masters 1000 events.

Impressive Stats

  1. In winning two of these titles (Hamburg 2007 & Madrid 2009), Federer prevented Nadal from winning all three clay court ATP World Tour Masters 1000 events in the same year, a feat that was finally achieved by Nadal in 2010 winning the masters titles in Monte Carlo, Rome and Madrid. Federer also ended Nadal’s longest winning streak of 81 consecutive matches on clay, and Nadal’s third longest winning streak of 33 consecutive matches on clay.

 

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ATP World Tour Finals

  1. Federer has won record six ATP World Tour Finals titles (2003–04, 2006–07, 2010–11.)
  2. Federer qualified for the ATP World Tour Finals for a total of 15 years (2002-2015, 2017) which is a record
  3. Federer qualified for the ATP World Tour Finals for 14 consecutive years (2002-2015). This is a record tied with Agassi for total number of years qualified however it is a new record for consecutive number of years qualified. The record came to an end when Federer had to cancel half the 2016 season due to injury and thus failed to qualify for the first time since 2002.
  4. Federer is the only player to have won the ATP World Tour Finals undefeated five times (2003–04, 2006, 2010–11).
  5. Federer is the only player to win back to back ATP World Tour Finals titles at least three times in his career (2003–04, 2006–07 and 2010–11).
  6. Federer (2003–07), Lendl (1980–88), and Năstase (1971–75) are the only players to reach the final round of at least five consecutive ATP World Tour Finals, with Lendl holding the record at nine consecutive years.
  7. Federer holds the record for most finals reached with ten as of the 2015 edition. Federer reached the final on 2003–07, 2010–12, 2014 and 2015. Lendl is in 2nd place by reaching all the finals from 1980-88.
  8. Federer set the record for most semi-finals reached when he reached his 14th semi-final in 2017.
  9. In his 14 consecutive appearances from 2002 to 2015, Federer has failed to reach the semi-finals only once in 2008.
  10. In his 15 appearances, he won all 3 RR matches a record ten times.
  11. Federer is the only player to win the ATP World Tour Finals in three different cities (Houston x2, Shanghai x2 and London x2).
  12. Federer has the most career match wins at the event with 55, surpassing Lendl’s 39 match wins in the 2012 edition.
  13. Federer has had two winning streaks of 12, the record stands at 14 straight wins by Lendl and Djokovic.
  14. Federer has played 8 opponents in the 10 finals he has reached (Agassi, Hewitt, Nalbandian, Blake, Ferrer, Nadal, Tsonga, Djokovic (x3)). This beats the previous shared record of 5 different final opponents for Lendl (Borg, Gerulaitis, McEnroe(x3), Becker(x3), Wilander), Becker (Lendl(x3), Edberg, Courier, Sampras(x2), Chang) and Sampras (Courier, Stich, Becker(x2), Kafelnikov, Agassi).
  15. Federer pulled out of the final match of the 2014 ATP World Tour Finals vs. Djokovic with a back injury. This was the first time the final was decided on a walkover in the tournament’s 45 year history. This walkover ensured that Djokovic won his third ATP World Tour Finals title in a row from 2012-14 joining Lendl and Năstase as the only players to ever win the title 3 consecutive years.He surpassed them the next year by winning his 4th consecutive ATP World Tour Finals title.
  16. Djokovic is tied at second place with Sampras and Lendl with 5 ATP World Tour Finals titles each and and all are behind Federer who has 6.

 

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