Records are meant to be broken, or they say.  There are some records in sports that I think will never be broken.

• Jim Laker’s 19/90 at the 1956 Old Trafford Test against Australia. Ironically, Tony Lock who took the only other Australian wicket in the match, was brought in instead of the the fast bowlers to give Laker a better chance of claiming the 20th.
• Jahangir Khan’s 5 year unbeaten streak from 1981-86, when he won 555 consecutive matches. This is also the longest unbeaten run by any athlete in any professional sport.
• Don Bradman’s 99.94 Test Average. Did you know that he needed only 4 runs to reach the elusive 100 in his last inning, but was bowled for a duck.

Are there records that you think, will make this list?

 The 2006 US open championship increases Roger Federer’s tally to 9. I had almost no doubt that he was going to add this one to his cap of feathers, the only question was if it would take 3 or 4 sets to take down Roddick. Over the last 3 years, he has been a class apart from the rest, more than any sportsmen in any other sport. Some comparable names include Don Bradman  (99.94 average), Muhammad Ali, Tiger Woods
(incredible domination until Vijay Singh showed up), Michael Jordan (Magic Johnson, Wilt Chamberlain etc come pretty close), Michael Schumacher (Ayrton Senna wasn’t far away), Jahangir Khan and Jansher Khan

Federer will probably break all tennis records ever set (except maybe the fastest serve or number of aces in match, he will probably leave that to mere mortals  ) and set new ones that won’t be broken in a long long time, like Pete Sampras’s 14 Grand Slam records or winning all 4 in a single year. Winning 9 Grand Slams while just 25 should say of what his man is made of. And most of all, his humbleness adds to his greatness. 

Another few years of such dominance, and he will be the greatest sportsperson any sport has ever seen.