At 25 years old, Roger Federer is already a fixture in the greatest-player-of-all-time conversation.

Federer etched his name into the record books once again after winning the Australian Open, his 10th career Grand Slam title and third Down Under.

He became the first player in the Open era to win three consecutive majors twice in a career. Since the start of 2006, his achievements are mind-numbing. Federer is 99-5 including 13 titles. Remarkably, he has failed to reach the final of any tournament just once in 18 events during that span.

Federer -- who is less than a month shy of breaking Jimmy Connors' record of consecutive weeks ranked No. 1 -- saved his most brilliant tennis for his latest championship. At the Aussie Open, he failed to drop a set, becoming the first player since Bjorn Borg 27 years ago to pull off this feat.

Since the start of 2004, not a soul has come close to knocking the Swiss juggernaut off course. Federer has won nine of 13 Grand Slam events he has participated in. In the same span, Tiger Woods (who has played in one fewer major event) won just four times. And in the four occurrences that Federer came up short, he reached at least the semifinals three times. His final lines don't read like those of Tiger: MC, T-22, T-17 or T-24.

In the past three-plus years, Federer has collectively compiled a 254-15 record and 35 titles in 50 tournaments. By comparison, Woods has won 16 titles in 56 events in a much less physically taxing profession.

Few will argue Federer hasn't received deserving accolades, but when Woods was voted the 2006 AP Athlete of the Year, the golfer responded, "What [Federer] has done in tennis, I think, is far greater than what I've done in golf."

Enough said.

254승 15패에 50번의 토너먼트에서 35번 우승

이미 10번의 메이저우승으로 앞으로 10년동안 4번만 더 우승하면 피트 샘프라스의 기록을 넘어선다.  (한 2년내로 이룰것같은 예감)

역사상 가장 압도적이면서 뛰어난 테니스 선수이면서 동시에 조던, 베이브 루스, 알리, 웨인 그라츠키를 넘어서 가장 위대한 스포츠선수이다.