Carlos Alcaraz is only the second man since tennis turned professional in 1968 to win all of his first five Grand Slam singles finals after Swiss great Roger Federer.
Together, the two young stars have now claimed seven out of the last eight Grand Slam titles.
'I've seen Federer and Nadal and they played a couple of good finals but nothing comes close to this.'
'There are a number of unique challenges elite tennis players have to face. The game is gladiatorial in nature with nowhere for players to hide and no team mate or manager to help deflect the pressure.'
With the 2011 edition of the prestigious tournament getting underway, Senior Associate Editor Bikash Mohapatra takes a look at a few players whose lone claim to fame came at the grass courts of the All England Club.
List of seeded players for the 2006 Australian Open.
Lleyton Hewitt will be eager to test his new-found confidence on clay against former champion Gaston Gaudio in the French Open second round on Thursday.
Puerta stood in for Spain's Rafael Nadal, who withdrew from the Shanghai event earlier in the day with an ankle injury.
Fourth seed Richard Gasquet led the French charge at the Lyon International when he reached the quarter-finals with a 6-3 6-4 win over Belgian Dick Norman on Thursday.
The Australian hit back from two sets down to crush former champion Gaston Gaudio at the French Open.
Russian wild card Safin brushed aside Serbian Boris Pashanski in just 55 minutes to advance to his first quarter-final of the year, at the Valencia Open.
The world number two launched his campaign for a third successive Rome Masters title with a below-par win over Italian wild card Daniele Bracciali.
Novak Djokovic scraped past Robin Soderling 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 at the Rome Masters.
World number two Andy Roddick will take on in-form Russian Marat Safin in the season-ending ATP Tennis Masters Cup.
The Olympic singles and doubles champion beat Alberto Martin of Spain in the final.
Top seed David Nalbandian crashed out of the Buenos Aires Open after going down to compatriot Guillermo Canas.
Argentina's Gaston Gaudio proclaimed Roger Federer the best tennis player in history after being crushed 6-0, 6-0 at the Masters Cup on Saturday.
David Nalbandian thrashed Ivan Ljubicic 6-2, 6-2 to reach the semi-finals of the Masters Cup
Defending champion Roger Federer was drawn against Guillermo Coria, Ivan Ljubicic and David Nalbandian in the group stages of the Masters Cup.
They were beaten 6-2 4-6 2-6 by the Argentinean pair of Juan Ignacio Chela and Gaston Gaudio.
Frenchman Marc Gicquel reached the last four of the Lyon International with an upset win over compatriot Sebastien Grosjean.
Former French Open champions Argentine Gaston Gaudio and Spaniards Carlos Moya and Albert Costa have all pulled out of Wimbledon because of injury.
The 18-year-old is slated to meet French teenager Richard Gasquet in the third round itself.
Ivan Ljubicic and Gaston Gaudio were the biggest casualties in second-round matches at the Hamburg Masters
French Open champion Gaston Gaudio overcame a partisan crowd as he beat Chile's Fernando Gonzalez to win the BellSouth Open ATP tournament on Sunday.
Roger Federer crushed Fernando Gonzalez 6-2, 6-4 to set up a Monte Carlo final against Rafael Nadal
He won 6-4, 6-4 in a high-powered quarter-final at the Valencia claycourt Open on Friday.
On a day of upsets at the Pacific Life Open, Australian Open runner-up Marcos Baghdatis beat 7th seed Gaston Gaudio.
Australia's Lleyton Hewitt dispatched Argentine Gaston Gaudio 6-2, 6-1 to clinch his place in the Masters Cup semi-finals.
David Nalbandian survived a testing encounter with Stanislas Wawrinka to prevail 6-4, 3-6, 6-4, 6-2
Russia's Nikolay Davydenko earned the semi-final berth by beating Gaston Gaudio 6-3, 6-4.
Croatian Ivan Ljubicic grabbed the last ticket to the eight-strong Masters Cup on Friday.
David Nalbandian and Gaston Gaudio must oust Russians Marat Safin and Igor Andreev in the fourth round for Argentina to have four men in the quarter-finals.
The French Open champion beat Gaston Gaudio 6-3, 6-3, 6-4 in the final of the Mercedes Cup
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