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Ten-codes, especially "10-4" (meaning "understood") first reached public recognition in the mid- to late-1950s through the popular television series Highway Patrol, with Broderick Crawford. [citation needed] Crawford would reach into his patrol car to use the microphone to answer a call and precede his response with "10-4".
Procedure words (abbreviated to prowords) are words or phrases limited to radiotelephony procedure used to facilitate communication by conveying information in a condensed standard verbal format. [1] Prowords are voice versions of the much older procedural signs for Morse code which were first developed in the 1860s for Morse telegraphy, and ...
The tennis rivalry between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal is considered one of the greatest in the history of the sport. [ 1 ] Federer and Nadal played each other 40 times, with Nadal leading 24–16 overall, including 14–10 in finals. Of their 40 matches, 20 were on hard court, 16 on clay, and 4 on grass.
4 hours 48 minutes. The 2008 Wimbledon Championships Men's Singles final was the championship tennis match of the men's singles tournament at the 2008 Wimbledon Championships. A part of the storied Federer–Nadal rivalry, it pitted then-top ranked Roger Federer against then second-ranked Rafael Nadal. After 4 hours and 48 minutes of play ...
Roger Federer(German pronunciation:[ˈrɔdʒərˈfeːdərər]; born 8 August 1981) is a Swiss former professional tennisplayer. He was ranked world No. 1in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals(ATP) for 310 weeks, including a record 237 consecutive weeks, and finished as the year-end No. 1 five times.
Roger Federer is the first player to win more than 5 titles at the World Tour Finals. Federer is the first and only player to reach 10 finals overall and 16 semi-finals. He has appeared in the 8-man year-end tournament 14 consecutive times and total 17 times, and is the only player to achieve both these feats in the open era.
Roger Federer: 1. The Battle of Surfaces was a men's tennis exhibition match that was held on May 2, 2007, [1] between Roger Federer, the then top-ranked men's singles player, and Rafael Nadal, the then world No. 2 in men's singles. [2] The match was played in the capital city of Nadal's home island, Palma de Mallorca, in front of a home crowd ...
Defending champion Roger Federer defeated Andre Agassi in the final, 6–3, 2–6, 7–6 (7–1), 6–1 to win the men's singles tennis title at the 2005 US Open.It was his second US Open title and sixth major title overall.