New York: With his fifth consecutive US Open trophy in hand, Roger Federer surveyed New York City from the top of the Empire State Building on Tuesday.
Federer captured his fifth title at Flushing Meadows and his 13th Grand Slam with a win over Andy Murray.
With this win, he has also moved to within one major championship of tying Pete Sampras' career record of 14 Grand Slam titles.
"I would like to think of this Slam as being as the Slam that I got five in a row. I know 13 is a strange number, funny number whatever you want to think. But I don't want to get struck at 13. That's the last thing I want to do but I would love to break Sampras' record but at the moment I think the joy is right there just having won a Grand Slam for the first time this year and having kept the run alive here at the Open," Federer said.
"I am no No. 1 at the moment but this is definitely the best reaction I could do. A win at New York and makes things more easy for me," he said.
Talking about his future plans, the former world No. 1 said that he was aiming for London Olympics.
"I definitely set the goals till the Olympics in four years time in London and that's going to be at Wimbledon which is an incredible combination for playing. Olympics Games at Wimbledon and from them on I would think. I would like to play as long as possible, as long as the body allows it. So I would like to play as long as possible. I can play through many generations like golfers do. I get inspired by playing for a very, very long time and things like that. So I am looking forward to playing for many more years to come," he added.
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