The last few weeks have been rough for the World #1, who has lost 3 matches (twice against his nemesis from the juniors David Nalbandian). In 2005, Federer lost only 4 matches out of 85 played, and three of them were to World #2 Rafael Nadal! Last year, Federer lost 5 matches out of 97 played. In 2007 he has (so far) lost a total of eight matches out of 73 played. This year Federer lost to Novak Djokovic, Guillermo Canas (twice, consecutively), Fillipo Volandri, Rafael Nadal (twice) and David Nalbandian (twice, consecutively).
Most tennis fans are not crying in their beers for Federer, however. See, Craig Hickman's tennis blog for more details. Mad Professah still believes that Federer IS the greatest tennis player of all time, and will break Pete Sampras' grand slam record by Wimbledon 2009. Federer has 12 Grand Slam titles and needs to reach 15 in order to exceed Sampras' record.
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