In the past fifteen years, the Australian Open champion, the French Open champion and the US Open champion have all had non-Big Four players win the championship, but the Wimbledon champion has not been left behind. The reason is that Federer, the old man, is too stable, whether his performance in other Grand Slams is good or bad, he must be the best Federer at Wimbledon. During the period when Wimbledon won five consecutive titles, he reached the final very steadily and won the championship. Since '14, he has reached the final four times, three of which he has consistently lost to Djokovic. Although Wimbledon's record in recent years has been unsatisfactory, Federer, who has won more than 100 wins at Wimbledon and a winning percentage of 89%, is still worthy of the title of the strongest grass player in history. Even though he has been in the profession for 24 years, even counting the h2h when he was brushed in his youth, only 11 players have beaten him at Wimbledon.
In his early years, Federer experienced three round trips at Wimbledon, namely Novak, who lost to the Czech Republic in 1999, Kafernikov who lost to Russia in 2000, and Ansic, who lost to Croatia in 2002. In the doldrums of 2013, Federer also set a record for missing out on Wimbledon for the second week of Wimbledon for the first time in a decade, when he was out of the second round and lost to Ukraine's Stahovsky. Of Federer's 21 Wimbledon trips, he didn't make it into the second week only those four times. Only The players who beat him were Kafernikov were big names, and the others had some luck.
Federer stopped the Wimbledon quarter-finals four times. The first time was in 2001, when the 19-year-old had just eliminated the old champion Sampras in the fourth round, and was educated by Britain's Tim Henman in the next round. Henman was once a popular player who was expected to complete the British man's wish to win Wimbledon, and he also beat Federer at Wimbledon, but unfortunately he did not win a Grand Slam title until he retired. In 2010, Berdych defeated Federer 3-1 in the Wimbledon quarterfinals. It was also Federer's first missed the final four since 2003, after he had reached the finals for seven consecutive years and won six of them. In 2011, France's Aritssanga, after falling behind in two sets, pulled three sets in a row to complete the feat of defeating Federer at Wimbledon. In 2018, the late South African "fake bird" Anderson fought hard in five sets in the quarterfinals, and the long set was decisive to eliminate Federer. These four players are all good players who can stabilize in the world's top ten all year round, reach the final four of grand slams and even the finals. It can be seen that to beat Federer in the second week at Wimbledon, it takes not only luck, but also strength.
Federer's Wimbledon semi-final win rate is frightening. So far, only Raonic has beaten him in the Wimbledon semi-finals. At Wimbledon in 2016, Federer defeated Pella, Johansen and other good players to reach the quarterfinals. In the quarter-finals, he fell behind Cilic 6-7, 4-6, but fortunately Federer's heart was strong enough, he won three sets in a row, 3-2 Lix Cilic reached the semi-finals. Unfortunately, this five-set battle consumed too much of Federer's physical strength, and in the semi-finals, facing Raonic, who had relatively few online mistakes, he also insisted on five sets, but the winner was no longer himself.
Only two players were able to beat Federer in the Wimbledon final – his rivals Nadal and Djokovic. Nadal's experience against Federer at Wimbledon was more bumpy. In 2006, Nadal, who was still very young in grass technology, tasted for the first time the taste of being given an egg in a Grand Slam final. In 2007, Nadal fought in five sets and still lost to Federer. Nadal once described it in his autobiography as one of the most painful failures of his career. In 2008, Nadal finally succeeded in killing god, winning his first non-clay Grand Slam title with a 3-2 victory over Federer. The final was hailed as the greatest Grand Slam final of all time, and the gap between the two on the field was only a millimeter. Nadal went two sets 6-5 ahead and Federer went back in color with two 7-6. In the decider, Nadal finally defeated Federer 9-7 to lift the Wimbledon Gold Cup. While ending Federer's five-game Wimbledon title, he also became the first person to beat Federer in the Wimbledon final.
Compared to Federer's repeated attempts to challenge Nadal in his peak, Djokovic's victory in the Wimbledon final is already a veteran in his thirties. In the 2014 Wimbledon final, Federer was still able to play with Djokovic very anxiously, and the five-set battle was full of 6-4, 7-5, 7-6 scores. But in 2015, Djokovic only needed four sets to cut the former Wimbledon king under the horse. Of course, for milk powder, the most regrettable thing is the 2019 Wimbledon final. The first four sets were tied 2-2, with Djokovic taking both sets to see 7, while Federer took two sets that were relatively easy. Unfortunately, after winning two championship points in the decider, Federer made a mistake, and the legend of reaching the Grand Slam final at the age of 38 eventually became the background board for Djokovic's sixteenth Grand Slam champion.
Looking at Federer's Wimbledon record, you can almost see the ups and downs of his entire career. Is the successor of Sampras (victory over Sampras in 2001), will lose to some low-ranking players in his youth and downturn (four round-trip experiences), and the world's top ten, Grand Slam final-level players have occasional defeats (four times out of the quarterfinals), the peak of his career has been extremely brilliant (seven consecutive years to reach the Wimbledon finals and win six of them), and the opponents of the fate are Nadal and Djokovic (the only two players who defeated Federer in the Wimbledon final), Facing the onslaught of the new generation (losing to Raonic in 2016), he is still tough even later in his career (Wimbledon has reached the final four times in the past six years). Federer rose to fame at Wimbledon, and perhaps he is also looking forward to a perfect ending at Wimbledon. (Source: Tennis House Author: Hedgehog Fairy)