He was the only other player in the Open era to lose his first four major finals.
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His 11 Grand Slam titles in the Open era trails only Federer and Pete Sampras (Borg also has 11).
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The elite club now has 10 members in the sport's history and six in the Open era, which began in 1968.
He joins Roger Federer, Ivan Lendl and Boris Becker as the only men to accomplish the feat in the Open era.
He has lost just one French Open match and won six titles, tied with Bjorn Borg for most in the Open era.
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Switzerland's Federer, looking for an Open era-record fifth Melbourne triumph, was rarely troubled as he beat experienced Russian Nikolay Davydenko 6-3 6-4 6-4.
The other is a highly-regarded sportsman who holds the records (tied) for most U.S. Open (five) and Wimbledon (seven) titles in the Open era.
The seven-time French Open champion is seeking his 37th title on clay, having stretched his Open era win record to 256-19 on the surface.
Golding, who beat world number one Jason Kubler in the last 16, is aiming to become the first British Wimbledon boys' champion of the Open era.
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Nonetheless, she was the first Pole to contest a grand slam final since the Open Era began in 1968 -- even if her defeat meant she missed out on a long-held dream.
One might think that Nadal, who became the first man in the Open era, which began in 1968, to lose three consecutive Grand Slam finals, would be shattered after such a loss.
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He did it first as an amateur in 1962, and then again in the 1969 when he became the first -- and only -- player to achieve the feat in the open era.
Having also won the Rogers Cup title in 2007, Djokovic became only the third Open era player to win the event at least three times, following in the footsteps of Ivan Lendl and Andre Agassi.
Djokovic wound up winning, 6-7 (2), 7-6 (3), 6-3, 6-2, taking his third straight Australian Open, which was a genuinely historic accomplishment unto itself, last done by the Aussie legend Roy Emerson, and never in tennis's Open era.
Federer shares the Open-era record for most U.S. Open victories with Sampras and Connors, having clinched his fifth crown in 2008 when he beat young pretender Andy Murray in the final.
Pete Sampras, who won an Open-era record seven titles, would have a larger bed hoisted into his room every year.
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The reason for this lies in the volatility that continues to erupt around the pillars of disruption that define the open mobile era: rapid development of mobile Web technology, insatiable consumer demand for mobile Web and data services, and an evolving policy debate that may finally introduce a more equitable market.
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With this in mind, I traveled to Asia to open a new era of American engagement.
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Declaring his visit "an opportunity to open a new era of British-Iranian co-operation, " Mr. Straw sought to enlist the Iranians by appealing to their own opposition to the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Search engines such as Google have ushered in the era of open-source learning.
The second concerns how you deal with that issue in an era of open innovation and an ideas economy.
At that time that many of the same sort of code sharing that later emerged in the era of open source also emerged.
Search engines such as Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) have ushered in the era of open-source learning.
Fortunately, the FCC, at the urging of Commissioner Ajit Pai, has just launched a new task force to study the much needed final transition away from obsolete telephone regulation and toward the free, open, and unlimited era of apps.
In the era of open-source sharing, anyone can set up or edit a Wikipedia page, cite questionable sources or air unsubstantiated information, it behooves us to seek the truth and to elevate facts and not let them fall victim to the whims of an intellectually bankrupt election season where the loudest beats out the truest.
If North Korea gives up its pursuit of nuclear weapons and missile development, and instead chooses a path towards peace and cooperation, our two countries will work together, along with the international community, to help improve the lives of the people in North Korea and provide necessary assistance that will help North Korea open up a new era.
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Elsewhere Nato Supreme Allied Commander Europe James Stavridis urged a new era of "open-source security".
In March, the Labor Department moved to suspend the Bush-era rules and held the matter open for public comment for just 10 days.
Last April Jobs created a stink with an open letter that called Flash "a PC-era" product that sucked power from mobile devices.
Compared with the wordy open letters and principled stands of the Soviet-era dissidents who still dominate Russian civil society, it is all very 21st-century, as is Mr Shvedov's language.
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