Roger Federer won his 35th straight U.S. Open match on Monday with a 6-1, 6-3, 7-5 victory over Devin Britton in the first round of the event.

If Federer can win the tournament he will become the first man since Bill Tilden in the 1920s to win six consecutive American Grand Slam titles.

“That’s what I’m here for, trying to equal Bill Tilden’s record,” Federer said. “But I’ve never met Bill Tilden. Never saw him play. So it’s hard to kind of relate to him in any way, except through records. It’s fantastic to be sort of compared to someone who played such a long time ago, I guess.”

Betting against Federer would be moronic.