{"id":9215,"date":"2015-01-11T16:57:17","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T21:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/?p=9215"},"modified":"2018-04-21T20:32:29","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T01:32:29","slug":"roger-federer-joins-elite-1000-match-winner-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/news\/atp-tennis\/roger-federer-joins-elite-1000-match-winner-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Federer Joins Elite 1,000 Match Winner Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Federer-1000-Matches.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9214\" alt=\"Roger Federer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Federer-1000-Matches.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Federer-1000-Matches.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Federer-1000-Matches-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Federer-1000-Matches-150x80.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Federer-1000-Matches-500x266.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s final in Brisbane brought Roger Federer the chance to win his 1,000th match. It also meant he could add win his 83rd title &#8212; the most of all active players. With a three-set victory over Milos Raonic, Federer earned all of above. He now joins only two other players who have achieved this feat in the Open Era: Jimmy Connors (1,253) and Ivan Lendl (1,071).<\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/forum\/showthread.php?tid=3391\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Click here to discuss Roger Federer&#8217;s Brisbane win in the discussion forum.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<p>Going into the Australian Open, the 33 year old is also now firmly seated at No. 2 in the world, ahead of Rafael Nadal and trailing only Novak Djokovic, both multiple Slam winners. Roger Federer has been in the Top 10 since October of 2002. He also has a tour leading 17 Grand Slam titles though he hasn&#8217;t won a Major since 2012. (He last won the Australian Open in 2010.)<\/p>\n<p>Considering he posted a 73-12 record in 2014, Federer is now projected to get past Ivan Lendl late this year or early next year.<\/p>\n<p>Cover Photo (Creative Commons License): Marianne Bevis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s final in Brisbane brought Roger Federer the chance to win his 1,000th match. It also meant he could add win his 83rd title &#8212; the most of all active players. With a three-set victory over Milos Raonic, Federer earned all of above. He now joins only two other players who have achieved this feat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":9214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[484,69,110,123],"class_list":["post-9215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atp-tennis","tag-brisbane-international","tag-ivan-lendl","tag-jimmy-connors","tag-roger-federer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11211,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9215\/revisions\/11211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}