No. 3 Roger Federer tells the New York Times that he would like to re-take the No. 1 ranking. The Swiss is just one week short of tying Pete Sampras’ record of 286 weeks atop the rankings.
"Exactly," Federer said. "Well, that’s a long way to go, but who knows? One day maybe I’ll get there. We’ll see. I had to just kind of ignore it at the moment because I know that Novak [Djokovic] with his unbelievable year has kind of put that very far from me, but then again, all of the sudden you play well and you win 17 matches in a row and you’re back where you at least feel if you win a Slam or something, you’re right in the conversation again, so that’s interesting and that excites me."
Federer added that he is close to committing to the first round of Davis Cup in February against the United States in Switzerland. Federer has not played non-relegation round in Davis Cup’s World Group since 2004. "I think it looks good that I will play, but I still just have to finalize my schedule," he said.?