Top 13 male tennis players of all time

#1 Roger Federer

Roger Federer at the 2018 Nitto ATP Finals

The countdown ends with the great Swiss, Roger Federer.

Federer achieved his breakthrough win at Wimbledon 2001 against 7-time champion Pete Sampras in a tense 4th round encounter. But no one would have expected the then 19-year-old Federer to go on to eclipse Sampras' record of 7 Wimbledon titles.

However, that is exactly what the Swiss achieved when he won his 8th Wimbledon singles trophy in the year 2017.

Federer won his first Wimbledon title aged just 21 in 2003, and won five consecutive titles till 2007. His match with Rafael Nadal in the 2008 Wimbledon final is considered to be the greatest tennis match ever.

15 years after his very first Wimbledon victory, Federer is still as hungry as ever, and the zeal to win is as strong as ever.

With 20 Grand Slam titles (including an Open Era record of 5 US Open triumphs, joint all-time record of 6 Australian Open triumphs and all-time record of 8 Wimbledon Championships), the ageless wonder still gives the younger players a run for their money.

History has taught us is that those who wrote off Federer during his Grand Slam drought between 2002 Wimbledon to 2017 Australian Open would be wise to not make the same mistake again!