Roger Federer added yet another record to his name today when defeating Romania’s Adrian Ungur 6-3, 6-2, 6-7, 6-3 in the French Open second round.
The win was the Swiss master’s 234th Grand Slam victory — which is the highest total ever achieved in the Open era.
Federer, who holds a record 16 Slam titles, eclipsed Jimmy Connors and now boasts a record which reads 234 wins and just 35 losses — a staggering achievement.
It should have been a much simpler record, though, for Federer to break against a 27-year-old who only made it into the world’s top 100 in February and had failed to qualify for a Grand Slam event 13 times before earning direct entry to Paris.
Ungur only plays his tennis on clay and had enough court craft to take Federer into a third-set tiebreak, which he won 8-6.
But the 30-year-old Swiss superstar has never lost in the second round of a Slam and won the title on these courts in 2009 to complete his set of Slam crowns.
Federer looked awesome in the opening round when cruising past unseeded German Tobias Kamke 6-2, 7-5, 6-3.
