{"id":12468,"date":"2017-03-19T19:16:18","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T00:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/?p=12468"},"modified":"2017-03-19T19:16:18","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T00:16:18","slug":"roger-federer-tops-stan-wawrinka-in-all-swiss-bnp-paribas-open-at-the-indian-wells-tennis-garden-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/?p=12468","title":{"rendered":"Roger Federer tops Stan Wawrinka in all-Swiss BNP Paribas Open at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden FINAL"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Roger Federer (SUI) celebrates at match point as he defeated Stan Wawrinka (not pictured) 7-6, 6-4 in the men’s final in the BNP Paribas Open at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden.\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A revived Roger Federer beat fellow Swiss Stan Wawrinka 6-4 7-5 in the BNP Paribas Open final on Sunday to earn a record-tying fifth Indian Wells title and distinction as the tournament’s oldest winner.<\/strong>The win by the 35-year-old Swiss master, who made a stunning return from a six-month layoff by winning the Australian Open in January, capped an impressive run in the California desert in which he did not lose a set the entire way.<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/span>The rematch of the Australian Open semi-final saw the close friends hold serve until the 10th game of the opening set when Federer, ahead 5-4, outlasted Wawrinka in a thrilling 21-shot rally for the service break.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wawrinka, who was making his first appearance in an Indian Wells final, broke right back and held serve to move ahead 2-0 in the ensuing set but Federer never wavered.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Federer now joins Novak Djokovic a five-time winner at the event and becomes the oldest champion in the tournament’s history, surpassing Jimmy Connors who was 31 when he triumphed in 1984.<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/span>Roger Federer (born 8 August 1981) is a Swiss professional tennis<\/a> player who is currently ranked world No. 10 by the Association of Tennis Professionals<\/a> (ATP).\u00a0<\/span>Many players and analysts have called him the greatest tennis player of all time.\u00a0<\/span>Federer turned professional in 1998 and was continuously ranked in the top 10 from October 2002 to November 2016.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Federer has won 18 Grand Slam<\/a> singles titles, the most<\/a> in history for a male tennis player, and held the No. 1<\/a> spot in the ATP rankings for a total of 302 weeks. In majors, Federer has won seven Wimbledon<\/a> titles, five Australian Open<\/a>titles, five US Open<\/a> titles and one French Open<\/a> title. He is among the eight men to capture a career Grand Slam<\/a>. He has reached a record 28 men’s singles Grand Slam finals, including 10 in a row from the 2005 Wimbledon Championships<\/a> to the 2007 US Open<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Federer’s ATP tournament records include winning a record six ATP World Tour Finals<\/a> and playing in the finals at all nine ATP Masters 1000 tournaments. He also won the Olympic gold medal<\/a> in doubles with his compatriot Stan Wawrinka<\/a> at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games<\/a> and the Olympic silver medal in singles at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games<\/a>. Representing Switzerland, he was a part of the 2014 winning Davis Cup<\/a> team. He was named the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year<\/a> for a record four consecutive years from 2005 to 2008.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Federer played in the Hopman Cup<\/a> and Australian Open<\/a> in January 2017.\u00a0At the Australian Open, he beat top-10 players Tom\u00e1\u0161 Berdych and Nishikori to reach the quarterfinals, where he beat Mischa Zverev<\/a>, making Federer the oldest man to compete in a grand slam semi-final since Jimmy Connors in 1991.\u00a0In the semi-finals, he defeated Wawrinka in five sets, making him the oldest player to compete in a Grand Slam final since Ken Rosewall<\/a> in 1974.\u00a0<\/span>Coming back from a break down in the fifth set, Federer defeated Nadal to win the Australian Open, which also marked Federer’s 100th match at the Australian Open; it was the first time Federer had won a match against Nadal in a Grand Slam event since the 2007 Wimbledon final<\/a>. His victory against Nadal moved Federer to number ten in the ATP rankings,\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0and made him the oldest player to win a Grand Slam tournament since Rosewall in 1972.<\/strong><\/div>\n

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Roger Federer (SUI) celebrates at match point as he defeated Stan Wawrinka (not pictured) 7-6, 6-4 in the men’s final in the BNP Paribas Open at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden.\u00a0 A revived Roger Federer beat fellow Swiss Stan Wawrinka 6-4 7-5 in the BNP Paribas Open final on Sunday to earn a record-tying fifth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,1314,1456,1156,13,14,7,17,9,10],"tags":[1734,18],"class_list":["post-12468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-entertainment","category-global-business-entrepreneurs","category-global-news-updates-and-more","category-global-sports","category-health","category-most-commented","category-sports","category-tennis","category-us","category-world","tag-2017-winner-of-the-bnp-paribas-open-at-the-indian-wells-tennis-garden","tag-roger-federer","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}