LONDON, July 3 (Xinhuanet) -- Rodger Federer etched his name in the Wimbledon history book of greats on Sunday when he relentlessly destroyed Andy Roddick 6-3, 7-6 (2), 6-4 in the final to become the only third player ever winning three men's titles in a row.     

    The talented 24-year-old Swiss fired a service winner to grasp his third straight crown, thus joining Pete Sampras and Bjorn Borg who are previous winners of three (or more) Wimbledons in succession in modern tennis.     

    Roddick vowed to take a stronger mindset onto the court before the match, but he soon found it was just far from enought to shoving the impeccable Federer juggernaut off track.     

    Federer, playing with ease, composure and elegancy, dished out some unbelieveable shots to leave Roddick helpless and depondent, breaking the 22-year-old American in the sixth and ninth game respectively to take the first set 6-3.     

    Roddick saw a sign of survival in the second set when he broke Federer in the third game and hold his own to go up 3-1. But Federer broke back in the sixth game and pull the score even at 3-3.     

    Roddick then had to save two break points in the 12th game to pull the set into tie-breaker which Federer triumphed 7-2 .     

    Roddick lost his temper and threw his raquet in wrath when he netted a forehand to give Federer a 5-2 lead in the tie-breaker.     

    An expected drizzle halted the play immediately after the second set to give the distraught Roddick a timely breather for reflection on his game.     

    It cleared up about half an hour later, and Roddick still could not find ways to cope with Federer's ruthless strokes and got broken in the seventh game when he missed to meet an accurate backhand crosscourt from Federer. And the break proved to be fatal as he just could not break back. Enditem