My thought is that if you're the best in your era, you know, and you probably don't even know who Bill Tilden is, but was he the best ever?

我想，如果你是你时代的最佳，你知道，可能你都不知道比尔·蒂尔登是谁，但他是否是史上最佳？

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America's Bill Tilden, one of the game's greatest players, won back-to-back post-war titles, but within three years French men were following Lenglen's lead in dominating their event.

BBC: The start of something special

Federer will play for a sixth consecutive US Open title on Monday, which would American Bill Tilden's record of the 1920s, and a 16th Grand Slam title that would extend his own all-time record.

BBC: Federer & Del Potro into US final

Federer, 28, was seeking his sixth consecutive U.S. Open win, which would have equaled the feat achieved in 1925 by American Bill Tilden, who then went on to claim his seventh U.S. Open title in 1929.

CNN: Del Potro stuns No. 1 Federer in U.S. Open final