He departed baseball in 1939, after setting a record of playing 2,130 consecutive games (since broken by Baltimore's Cal Ripken Jr). and hitting 23 grand slams, a record that still stands.
The only number she is chasing now is 22 Grand Slams, a record held by retired great, Steffi Graf in the Open era.
It took Federer, the world's top player, less than 90 minutes to showcase his touch shots, mastery of angles and all-around court command and reach his 22nd Grand Slam final, a record, and eighth in a row.
Protected by the Centre Court roof and fortified by his tenacity, nothing was going to stop Novak Djokovic from securing his 30th consecutive grand slam victory, a record in the open era.
At Wimbledon this summer, where she first played in 1993, she made her 57th consecutive Grand Slam appearance, breaking a record held by Wayne Ferreira of South Africa.
American tennis player whose exceptional all-around game enabled him to win 14 Grand Slam singles titles, a record among male players until 2009, when it was broken by Roger Federer.
He arrived early at Melbourne Park to prepare to defend his title and, in a broader sense, begin the defense of his magnificent season in which he won three of the four Grand Slam singles titles, a record five Masters Series events and rose to No.1 in the rankings for the first time.
Ms. King won 39 Grand Slam titles and a record 20 at Wimbledon; founded the Women's Tennis Association in 1973; became the country's first openly lesbian major sports figure in 1981; and received a Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Obama in 2009 for championing the rights of women and gay people.
The Federer Djokovic rivalry is the largest rivalry in Grand Slam history with a record 12 matches played against each other and they are tied 6 6.
Nadal is on pace to challenge Federer's record of sixteen Grand Slams, while Djokovic has had a calendar year — at least two Grand Slams, a 63-2 record — matched only by McEnroe in 1984 and Federer in 2006.
