Federer: I always believed

Roger Federer finds himself in the familiar position today of being both champion of Wimbledon and top of the world rankings.

In achieving both feats the 30-year-old from Switzerland has earned separate entries in the tennis record books, tying William Renshaw and Pete Sampras on seven Wimbledon titles and matching Sampras’ unsurpassed tally of 286 weeks at number one. He is guaranteed to stretch that to 287 weeks in seven days’ time.