Federer's fifth Australian Open title win marked a tournament-record seven-year-long gap between a player's successive Australian Open titles and also established an Open-era Slam record of a 13+ year-long span of winning men's singles Grand Slam titles since his maiden 2003 Wimbledon title win. Winning another Australian Open title also saw Federer increase his all-time record count of hard court singles majors to ten, two ahead of the second all-time count of eight held by Novak Djokovic. In addition, the match was also Federer's career seventh five-set Grand Slam final match, subsequently breaking the all-time career record tie held with Björn Borg of six Grand Slam five-set finals.
