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Pete Sampras was the four-time defending champion, but he lost in the fourth round to Roger Federer. The Sampras-Federer match was the only time the two ever competed against each other in a professional match, with Federer being 19 years old and Sampras retiring from the sport the following year.
[1] [2] It was the 115th edition of the Wimbledon Championships, part of the 2001 ATP and WTA Tours, and it was the third Grand Slam tennis event of the year. The tournament was the first in Wimbledon's 124-year history in which 32 players in the men's and women's draws were seeded, instead of the usual sixteen. [3]
Sampras won 40 of the 42 singles matches he played on Wimbledon's Centre Court and 63 of the 70 singles matches he played at the All England Club. His two defeats on Centre Court were against Richard Kraijcek at the 1996 Wimbledon Championships, and Federer at the 2001 Wimbledon Championships.
Federer, who was then ranked no. 15, defeated the No. 1 seed in a five-set match to snap Sampras' 31-match win streak at Wimbledon. [22] [23] The defeat was Sampras' first at the All England Club since 1996 and it ended his bid for a record-tying fifth consecutive title. [12]
The match featured a 29-minute, 643-shot rally, the longest in professional tennis history, though no video exists of this point. [15] [16] Unlike men's singles matches, where Grand Slam events are still played over the best of five sets, all women's matches are now played as the best of three sets.
There was a lot going on at the Wimbledon men's final on Sunday: a five hour, historic match between Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic, a gorgeous and emotional Duchess Kate, who made an appearance ...
Björn Borg (1976–1980) and Roger Federer (2003–2007) share the record for most consecutive victories with five. [5] Federer reached 7 consecutive Wimbledon Finals (2003 – 09), an all-time record, surpassing the old record of 6 consecutive finals by Borg (1976–81) and in the process the Swede won 41 consecutive matches at Wimbledon.
Federer has also registered a 56-match win streak on hard courts which is the all-time record. Federer's most successful surface is grass where he has won an Open Era record 19 grass court titles including an all-time record 10 Halle Open titles and an all-time record of 8 Wimbledon titles. He reached an all-time record 7 consecutive Wimbledon ...