(REUTERS) – Roger Federer has said he is not consumed by a quest to add breathing room to his record total of 17 Grand Slams, but suggested the only way rival Rafael Nadal could eclipse him was by continuing to churn out French Open wins.Nadal sits three Grand Slam titles behind the Swiss maestro on 14, with nine of them coming at Roland Garros and Federer conceded that Nadal could charge past him, but added that world number one Novak Djokovic is probably too far adrift.

“Who knows? Rafa has the best shot if he wins the French Open a few more times and if I don’t win anymore he can catch me quickly. I guess Novak is still a long shot but it really depends on how dominant his next years are going to be,” said Federer, whose wife and two sets of twins travel with him around the globe.
“They have to be very dominant because Rafa and me, we both are still playing. It’s not like we’ve both retired, or anything. “I’m more focused on me than on them. I hope to make it more difficult on them but at the end of the day records are there to be broken.”
Federer is proud of all his grand slam singles titles, but if the Swiss master could add just one more to his record men’s haul it would be at Wimbledon.
“It would be my favourite choice if I had a choice right now,” Federer, 33, told reporters. “I’d love to win Wimbledon. I think it’s possible, and I think if I win Wimbledon it’s cooler for me personally, and my team and Swiss people and my fans.”
Another singles title at the All England Club would give Federer a record eighth Wimbledon crown, breaking his tie with Pete Sampras and W.C. Renshaw of the late 19th century and it would also make him the oldest Wimbledon men’s winner, eclipsing Arthur Ashe, who was 31 when he won in 1975.
Federer, whose last Grand Slam triumph came at the 2012 Wimbledon, made it clear that setting the all-time record meant a great deal to him.
“I was very happy to get the grand slam record at Wimbledon in 2009,” he said about surpassing Sampras’ total of 14. “It was a dream come true and it was a huge motivation to get to that after Pete had set that record.”