Wimbledon the name speaks itself is undoubtedly the ultimate test of the top tennis players in the tennis circuit. The era of 2000-2010 shows the dominance of one of the best tennis players ever and that is Roger Federer from Basel, Switzerland.
He has the prestige of being the most famous tennis player in history. He also held the world ranking No. 1 seat for a long period, followed by Spanish tennis player giant Rafael Nadal, currently No. 2 from Spain.
Roger Federer first made his mark at Wimbledon 2001 by defeating Pete Sampras in an epic five-setter marathon. He made the crowd sit up and forced them to notice his absolute skills. Defeating Sampras was quite an achievement itself and this achievement later multiplied successively.
This was the only encounter between Federer and Sampras as Sampras retired later. Federer did lose to Mario Ancic in the following year but he won his first Wimbledon title in 2003 where he defeated Mark Philippoussis to win the Grand Slam title. He dropped only one set in this match and since then, he has been unstoppable.
Like Sampras, Federer also felt comfortable at Wimbledon and claimed 6 Wimbledon titles, only one less than Sampras. His exquisite one-handed backhand perhaps is the most aesthetic shot in tennis and would be missed after his retirement.
The list of male winners and runner-ups of the Wimbledon Open tennis championship during 2000-2010 is as follow:
The year 2010-2000 Wimbledon Open Winners
- Wimbledon Open winner (male)-2010: Rafael Nadal
- Wimbledon Open winner (male)-2009: Roger Federer
- Wimbledon Open winner (male)-2008: Rafael Nadal
- Wimbledon Open winner (male)-2007: Roger Federer
- Wimbledon Open winner (male)-2006: Roger Federer
- Wimbledon Open winner (male)-2005: Roger Federer
- Wimbledon Open winner (male)-2004: Roger Federer
- Wimbledon Open winner (male)-2003: Roger Federer
- Wimbledon Open winner (male)-2002: Lleyton Hewitt
- Wimbledon Open winner (male)-2001: Goran Ivanisevic
- Wimbledon Open winner (male)-2000: Pete Sampras
The year 2010-2000 Wimbledon Open Runner-ups
- Wimbledon Open runner-up (male)-2010: Tomas Berdych
- Wimbledon Open runner-up (male)-2009: Andy Roddick
- Wimbledon Open runner-up (male)-2008: Roger Federer
- Wimbledon Open runner-up (male)-2007: Rafael Nadal
- Wimbledon Open runner-up (male)-2006: Rafael Nadal
- Wimbledon Open runner-up (male)-2005: Andy Roddick
- Wimbledon Open runner-up (male)-2004: Andy Roddick
- Wimbledon Open runner-up (male)-2003: Mark Philippoussis
- Wimbledon Open runner-up (male)-2002: David Nalbandian
- Wimbledon Open runner-up (male)-2001: Patric Rafter
- Wimbledon Open runner-up (male)-2000: Patric Rafter
