![]() Nadal had beaten Federer in four finals this year.Ģ006 - Italy wins its fourth World Cup title winning the shootout 5-3 against France, after a 1-1 draw. Two points away from defeat, Ivanisevic rallies to beat Rafter 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 2-6, 9-7 and becomes the second player to win a Wimbledon singles title without being seeded.Ģ006 - Roger Federer ends a five-match losing streak to Rafael Nadal, winning 6-0, 7-6 (5), 6-7 (2), 6-3 to earn his fourth straight Wimbledon title and eighth Grand Slam championship. Sampras, winner of seven Wimbledon titles, 13 Grand Slam championships, extends his mark at Wimbledon to 53-1 over the past eight years.Ģ001 - Goran Ivanisevic becomes one of Wimbledon’s most improbable champions, beating Patrick Rafter. Becker wins his third Wimbledon title in five years, rolling past defending champion Stefan Edberg 6-0, 7-6 (1), 6-4, while Graf takes her second straight championship over Martina Navratilova 6-2, 6-7 (1), 6-1.ġ991 - South Africa is readmitted by the International Olympic Committee to the Olympic movement, ending decades of sports isolation and clearing the way for its participation in the 1992 Games.ġ995 - Pete Sampras becomes the first American to win Wimbledon three straight years by beating Boris Becker 6-7, 6-2, 6-4, 6-2.Ģ000 - Pete Sampras passes Roy Emerson for the most Grand Slam championships and ties Willie Renshaw, a player in the 1880s, for the most Wimbledon titles with a four-set victory over Pat Rafter. Meyer breaks the 800-meter freestyle record in 9 minutes, 35.8 seconds on the way to a record 18:11.1 in the 1,500.ġ968 - Wilt Chamberlain becomes the first reigning NBA MVP to be traded the next season when he moves from Philadelphia 76’ers to LA Lakers.ġ988 - Nolan Ryan is 7th to win 100 game on 2 teams, as Astro beat Mets 6-3.ġ989 - Boris Becker and Steffi Graf claim a West German sweep of the Wimbledon singles crowns in the first double finals day in 16 years. swimmer to set a world record for the breaststroke with a 2:40.5 time for 200 meters. Spitz sets a 100-meter butterfly record at 56.3 and Ball becomes the first U.S. It’s the last to conclude with two rounds on Friday.ġ966 - Jack Nicklaus wins the British Open with a 282 at Muirfield to join Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan and Gary Player as the only men to win the four majors.ġ967 - Mark Spitz and Catie Ball, both 17, swim to world records, and 14-year-old Debbie Meyer sets two records in one race in the Santa Clara International Invitational swim meet. Thomson’s previous Open victory was in 1958. Thomson shoots a 7-under 285 at the Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, England. 1965 - Peter Thomson wins his fifth British Open title by two strokes over Brian Huggett and Christy O’Connor Sr. ![]()
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