King Roger the Great continues reign at No. 1

Our Swiss tennis superstar has clinched the number one ranking for the fourth year running after successfully winning a second consecutive title at the Davidoff Swiss Indoors in Basel, Switzerland. Federer comfortably defeated the unseeded Jarkko Nieminen of Finland, 6-3 6-4 in the finals.

Previous to that match, the 6'1" top seed fought off 6'10" Croatian Ivo Karlovic yet again--I wonder what he thought about the size difference this time!--via two tie-breaks in the semi-finals and won a rematch with Nicolas Kiefer, 6-3 6-2, in the quarter-finals. The latter was Federer's 544th career victory, the most for any active player in the ATP circuit.

This is Federer's seventh ATP title of the year, his 53rd in his career. He now also joins past tennis greats Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe and Pete Sampras as the only men in the open era to hold the number one ranking for four consecutive years.

Long live King Roger the Great!
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