It was 5:08 p.m. at Roland Garros when Roger Federer was kneeling on the clay of Court Philippe-Chatrier where what Sunday, June 7, 2009, he has lived his D-Day champion. For the first time in his career, the Musketeers’ Cup, awarded each year to the winner of the Internationaux de France, tennis was his last. After three consecutive failures in the final against Rafael Nadal, he has won without striking a blow against the Swede Robin Soderling, who had just eliminated the four-time defending champion a week earlier in the fourth round..

In triumphing at Roland-Garros, Federer became the sixth player to be able to boast of possessing the four Grand Slam titles (Australian Open, Roland-Garros, Wimbledon, U.S. Open) to his credit. Fred Perry, Donald Budge, Rod Laver, Roy Emerson and Andre Agassi, present to give him the Musketeers’ Cup, had been the only ones so far to have won at least one of the four most prestigious trophies international calendar.

And thanks to the success of a few weeks before his 28th birthday and the birth of her first child, Roger Federer from now totals 14 Grand Slam titles, which places it in equality with Pete Sampras who was, until June 7 The league’s most prolific history. In one month, at Wimbledon, Federer will have maybe a new appointment with his exceptional destiny.


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