Roger Federer (Switzerland) beat Andy Roddick (US) 5-7 7-6 7-6 3-6 16-14 in a marathon that lasted for 4 hours and 15 minutes.  This is Federer’s 15th grand slam title and 6th Wimbledon championship title. He also wins £850,000 or  almost $1.4 million.

Watching from the Royal box were Pete Sampras, the other tennis player who have 14 grand slams,  and Bjorn Borg and Rod Laver.

Federer got back to the #1 seed he lost last year to Rafael Nadal who beat him last 2008 but wasn’t able to defend his title this year because of knee injury.

After almost 2 hours and 3 sets (6-1, 6-7, 6-4), Roger Federer (2) from Switzerland won his first Roland Garros French Open against Robin Soderling (23) of Sweden.

Roger Federer is now the 6th Career Grand Slam winner following Andre Agassi of USA. He also ties with Pete Sampras’ record of 14 major Grand Slam titles. Federer saw a window of opportunity to win the elusive Roland Garros as Soderling won over French Open defending champion Rafael Nadal last Sunday May 31.

Federer couldn’t contain his tears as the Switzerland’s National Anthem was played. Soderling was all praises to Federer as he said his speech.

Winning all four Grand Slam tournaments during a career is termed a Career Grand Slam.