Federer deserves credit for dominating across multiple generations
In a period of 15 months, between Wimbledon 2019 and Roland Garros 2020, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal achieved one of the most incredible records of a Major. Two legends became the first tennis players with 100 victories in the same Major.
The Swiss did it first at Wimbledon 2019 and repeated the feat at the Australian Open 2020 following that thrilling win over John Millman in the third round.
Thus, Federer is the only player with a hundred in two Majors. In his 21st Australian Open, the Swiss had to go all out to get this historic victory, beating the local star 4-6, 7-6, 6-4, 4-6 and 7-6 after four hours and three minutes of an epic battle.
John defeated Roger at the 2018 US Open and gave 200% of himself in front of home fans at Rod Laver Arena. He went all out for Federer and missed a colossal opportunity in the tie break of the match, where he was leading 8-4.
Federer won three more points and scored three breaks, losing serve four times but finding a way to emerge on top. Millman got off to a strong start and got two breaks in the first set for 6-4.
The Swiss only dropped five points after the opening blow in the second set to mount the pressure on the other side and took the tie-break 7-2 to level the aggregate score.
