All Tennis All The Time (!) - Qualifying for London

[TBF]

3rd to qualify (we won't talk about the other 2 ...):

Roger Federer Third to Qualify for London
By Chris Oddo | Monday, August 18, 2014

Roger Federer Wimbledon 2014

Roger Federer has qualified for the ATP World Tour Finals for a record 13th consecutive time.

Roger Federer became the third man to qualify for the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals in London this season after winning the Western and Southern Open on Sunday. He joins Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal as the only men to qualify thus far.

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Federer, who owns a record six titles at the event to go with an impressive 44-11 lifetime record, qualifies for the 13th consecutive year. The 33-year-old Swiss now owns the longest streak of qualification, passing Ivan Lendl, who qualified for 12 consecutive years from 1980 to 1991.

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[joeybee12]

1. I didn't realize the year-end tourney had been around that long...

I mean, with Lendl qualifying as far back as 1980...for some reason, I thought it's inception was more recent.