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Roger Federer
Swiss former tennis player (born )
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| Country&#;(sports) | &#;&#;Switzerland |
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| Residence | Valbella, Switzerland |
| Born | () 8 August (age&#;43) Basel, Switzerland |
| Height | &#;m (6&#;ft 1&#;in)[1] |
| Turned&#;pro | |
| Retired | 23 September |
| Plays | Right-handed (one-handed backhand) |
| Prize money | US$,,[2] |
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| Career&#;record | – (%) |
| Career&#;titles | (2nd in the Open Era) |
| Highest&#;ranking | No.
1 (2 February ) |
| Australian&#;Open | W (, , , , , ) |
| French&#;Open | W () |
| Wimbledon | W (, , , , , , , ) |
| US Open | W (, , , , ) |
| Tour&#;Finals | W (, , , , , ) |
| Olympic&#;Games | F () |
| Career&#;record | –93 (%) |
| Career&#;titles | 8 |
| Highest&#;ranking | No.
24 (9 June ) |
| Australian&#;Open | 3R () |
| French&#;Open | 1R () |
| Wimbledon | QF () |
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| Olympic&#;Games | W () |
| Davis Cup | W () |
| Hopman Cup | W (, , ) |
Roger Federer (FED-ər-ər, Swiss Standard German:[ˈrɔdʒərˈfeːdərər]; born 8 August ) is a Swiss former professional tennis player.
He was ranked world No. 1 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for weeks, including a record consecutive weeks, and finished as the year-end No. 1 five times.
Rf brand roger federer biography book Image: Uniqlo. What began as a part of their brand management has now become parts of their very images. Nike evolved the logo and made it more relevant to performance products — very modern and very sleek. The tennis great was referring, of course, to the unveiling of a collection of hats bearing his famed logo in connection with his 2-year old sponsorship deal with Uniqlo.He won singles titles on the ATP Tour, the second most since the start of the Open Era in , including 20 major men's singles titles (among which a record eight men's singles Wimbledon titles, and an Open Era joint-record five men's singles US Open titles) and six year-end championships.
A Wimbledon junior champion in and former ball boy, Federer won his first major singles title at Wimbledon in at age [3] Between and , Federer played in 21 out of 28 major singles finals.
He won three of the four majors and the ATP Finals[a] in , , and as well as five consecutive titles at both Wimbledon and the US Open. He completed the career Grand Slam at the French Open after three consecutive runner-up finishes to Rafael Nadal, his main rival until At age 27, he surpassed Pete Sampras's record of 14 major men's singles titles at Wimbledon in
Federer and Stan Wawrinka led the Switzerland Davis Cup team to their first title in , following their Olympic doubles gold victory at the Beijing Olympics.
Federer also won a silver medal in singles at the London Olympics, finishing runner-up to Andy Murray. After a half-year hiatus in late to recover from knee surgery, Federer returned to tennis, winning three more majors over the next two years, including the Australian Open over Nadal and an eighth singles title at the Wimbledon Championships.
At the Australian Open, Federer became the first man to win 20 major singles titles and shortly after the oldest ATP world No. 1 at the time, at age In September , he retired from professional tennis following the Laver Cup.
A versatile all-court player, Federer's grace on the court made him popular among tennis fans.[4][5] Originally lacking self-control as a junior,[6] he transformed his on-court demeanor[7] to become well-liked for his graciousness, winning the Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship Award 13 times.
He also won the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year award a joint-record five times. Outside of competition, Federer played an instrumental role in the creation of the Laver Cup team competition. He is also an active philanthropist. He established the Roger Federer Foundation, which targets impoverished children in southern Africa, and has raised funds in part through the Match for Africa exhibition series.
By the end of his career, Federer was routinely one of the top-ten highest-paid athletes in any sport, and ranked first among all athletes with $ million in endorsement income in [8]
Early life
Federer was born on 8 August in Basel, Switzerland.[9][10] A member of the Federer family, his Swiss father, Robert Federer, is from Berneck in the canton of St.
Gallen and his Afrikaner mother, Lynette Federer (née Durand), is from Kempton Park, Gauteng, in South Africa.[11] He has one sibling, his older sister, Diana,[12] the mother of twins.[13] Since Federer's mother is South African, he holds both Swiss and South African citizenship.[14][15] He is related to Swiss prelate Urban Federer as well as Swiss politician and philanthropist Barbara Schmid-Federer.[16]
As youngsters, Federer and his elder sister Diana used to accompany their parents, both of whom worked for Ciba-Geigy Pharmaceuticals, to the company's private tennis courts at the weekends, where he first played tennis at the age of three.[17]
Soon after enrolling in school at the age of six, Federer became the best in his age group.[18] Feeling that Federer had outgrown the Ciba club and needed to be amongst better juniors, his mother Lynette enrolled him at age eight in the elite junior programme of the Old Boys Tennis Club in Basel, where he received his initial tennis instruction from veteran Czech coach Adolf Kacovsky.[17] Federer began using the one-handed backhand from an early age not only because Kacovsky was a fan of it, but also because all of his childhood idols, Stefan Edberg, Boris Becker, and later Pete Sampras, used the one-hander too.[17] From ages 8 to 10, Federer received group and individual training from Kacovsky.[17] At age 10, Federer began being taught at the club by Australian former tennis player Peter Carter.[17] Federer has credited Carter for his "entire technique and coolness".[17]
Federer grew up playing many sports, such as badminton, basketball, football, and tennis, but he was most taken by the latter two.[17][19] He also tried skiing and swimming and spent hours playing soft tennis on the street.[18] He credits his hand-eye coordination to the wide range of sports he played as a child.[20] In , Federer won the U12 Swiss national junior championships in Lucerne.[17][21] Becoming the best junior in the country helped him decide to become a professional tennis player, so he stopped playing football at age twelve to concentrate solely on tennis, where he felt he had more control over his victories or defeats, as opposed to team sports where he relied more on the performances of his teammates.[17][19][18] Federer was also a ball boy at his hometown Basel event, the Swiss Indoors in and , and even received a medal after the final, together with the other ballboys, from tournament champion Michael Stich.[15][22]
He was brought to train at the Swiss National Tennis Center, then located in Ecublens in the canton of Vaud, between and It was in this new setting that he learned French at the age of He completed his compulsory education at La Planta secondary school in Chavannes-près-Renens and obtained his certificate in July , in the upper division, commercial studies section.[23]
Tennis career
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– Junior years
Main article: Roger Federer junior years
In , at age 13, Federer won the U14 Swiss national junior championship and was subsequently invited to train at the prestigious National Tennis Centre in the French-speaking Écublens, where he enrolled shortly after his 14th birthday.[19][24] There, he had the opportunity to combine three hours of tennis training per day along with education, but Federer had little interest in studying and struggled to balance his education with his tennis commitments.[17] Speaking little French and struggling with living away from home, Federer found his first months at Écublens depressing.[17] He was the youngest player in the group and also felt singled out as the "Swiss German" by many of the students and staff at the academy, experienced mild bullying, and was often on the verge of packing his bags and returning home.[17] Federer credits this difficult period of his life as the reason for his independent spirit.[17]
Federer played his first ITF junior match in July , at the age of 14, at a grade-2 tournament in Switzerland.[25] He then played in the NEC World Youth Cup Final in Zürich against tennis players like Lleyton Hewitt.[26][27] In January , at age 15, Federer won both the indoor and outdoor U18 Swiss national championship, defeating the Yves Allegro who was three years older than him, in both finals.[28] In May, Federer won his first-ever ITF junior title on the clay courts of a second-category tournament in Prato, doing so without the loss of a set.[29] In September, Federer earned the first 12 ATP points of his career in a four-week Swiss satellite tournament in Bossonnens, thus making his debut in the ATP rankings at No.
, just five spots ahead of future rival Lleyton Hewitt.[28][29][30]
His main accomplishments as a junior player came at Wimbledon in , when he won both the Boys' singles final over Irakli Labadze,[31] and the Boys' doubles final, teamed with Olivier Rochus, defeating the team of Michaël Llodra and Andy Ram.[32] Federer then reached the US Open Junior final, which he lost to David Nalbandian.
This was the only occasion Federer lost a final on the junior circuit.[29] He then brought his junior career to an end at the prestigious Junior Orange Bowl in Miami, where he defeated Nalbandian in the semifinals and Guillermo Coria in the final.[29] By the end of he had attained the No.
1 junior world ranking and was named ITF Junior World Champion.[33] He ended his junior career at the end of with a high ranking of No. 1 in singles and No. 7 in doubles (both achieved on 31 December ) and a win–loss record of 78–20 in singles and 36–21 in doubles.[34]
Junior Grand Slam results – Singles:
Australian Open: SF ()
French Open: 1R ()
Wimbledon: W ()
US Open: F ()
Junior Grand Slam results – Doubles:
Australian Open: SF ()
French Open: 1R ()
Wimbledon: W ()
US Open: 1R ()
– Early professional career
Main article: Roger Federer's early career
In July , an almost year-old Federer made his ATP debut at the Swiss Open Gstaad, in his home country of Switzerland, losing to No.
88 Lucas Arnold Ker in the first round.[35][36] Later that year, he won his first ATP match against Guillaume Raoux in Toulouse.[37] He then received a wildcard to the Swiss Indoors in his hometown in Basel, where he lost in the first round to former world No. 1 Andre Agassi.[38] He finished ranked st in the world.[33]
In April , Federer made his Davis Cup debut in a World Group first round against Italy, defeating Davide Sanguinetti.[39] In August, Federer won his first-ever professional title on the Challenger tour in Segovia, pairing with Sander Groen to beat Ota Fukárek and Alejandro Hernández in the final, which was played on Federer's 18th birthday.[40] Despite losing in the first rounds of both the French Open and Wimbledon and having just turned 18, he entered the world’s Top for the first time on 20 September [33] Later that month, Federer won his first and only singles ATP Challenger title in Brest, defeating Max Mirnyi in the final.[41] In his first full year as a professional, Federer jumped up to world No.
64,[24] and in doing so at 18 years and four months of age, he became the youngest player in the year-ending world top [42][43]
His first Grand Slam win came at the Australian Open, where he defeated former World No. 2 Michael Chang.[26] His first singles final came at the Marseille Open in February , where he lost to fellow Swiss Marc Rosset.[42] Federer then entered the Top 50 in March and ended ranked 29th in the world.[33] Federer made his Olympic debut at Sydney, where he surprised many by reaching the semifinals, where he lost to Tommy Haas and then to Arnaud Di Pasquale in the bronze medal match.[42][44] In January , Federer won the Hopman Cup representing Switzerland, along with world No.
1 Martina Hingis.[45][46] The duo defeated the American pair of Monica Seles and Jan-Michael Gambill in the finals.
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Federer later said that his experience with Hingis "definitely helped me to become the player I am today."[47]
In , Federer won his first singles title at the Milan Indoor tournament, where he defeated Julien Boutter in the final.[42][48] Federer then reached his first Grand Slam quarterfinal at the French Open, losing to former world No.
2 and eventual finalist Àlex Corretja.[49] His international breakthrough came at the Wimbledon Championships, when the year-old Federer faced the four-time defending champion and all-time Grand Slam leader Pete Sampras in the fourth round. Federer defeated the No. 1 seed in a five-set match to snap Sampras' match win streak at Wimbledon before losing in the quarter-finals to Tim Henman.[42][50][51]
In , Federer reached his first Masters final at the Miami event, where he lost to Andre Agassi,[52] but then won his first Masters title in Hamburg, defeating Marat Safin in the final; the victory put him in the top 10 for the first time.[53] On 1 August, Federer suffered the devastating loss of his long-time Australian coach and mentor, Peter Carter, in a car crash in South Africa.[33] Although he suffered first-round losses in the three tournaments he entered immediately after Carter's death, Federer gathered himself and began playing with more determination than ever after that.[54] After reaching the fourth round of the US Open, he won the Vienna Open,[55] jumping from No.
13 at the end of September to No. 7 in the rankings by early November, which allowed him to qualify for the year-end Masters Cup for the first time, where he won all of his matches in the round-robin stage before losing to then-world no. 1 and eventual champion Lleyton Hewitt in the semifinals.[56] At age 21, he ended ranked as the world No.
6.[53]
Grand Slam breakthrough at Wimbledon
Main article: Roger Federer tennis season
In , Federer won his first Grand Slam singles title at Wimbledon, beating Andy Roddick in the semifinals and Mark Philippoussis in the final.[57][58] In doing so, he joined the likes of Björn Borg, Pat Cash and Stefan Edberg as the only singles players to win both the junior and senior Wimbledon titles.[29] In August he had a chance to take over the No.
1 ranking for the first time from Andre Agassi if he made it to the Montreal final. However, he fell in the semifinals to Roddick, in a final-set tiebreaker, leaving him points behind Agassi.[59] This, coupled with early losses to David Nalbandian at Cincinnati and the US Open, denied Federer the chance to become No.
1 in [60]
Federer won his first and only doubles Masters event in Miami with Max Mirnyi, beating the pair of Leander Paes and David Rikl in the final.[61] He then reached the singles final of the Rome Masters on clay, which he lost to Félix Mantilla.[62] Federer reached nine finals on the ATP Tour and won seven of them on four different surfaces, including the series events at Dubai and Vienna, defeating Jiří Novák and Carlos Moyá in the respective finals.[63] Lastly, Federer won the year-end championships over Andre Agassi, finishing the year as world No.
2, narrowly behind Andy Roddick by only points.[64]
Imposing dominance
Main article: Roger Federer tennis season
In , Federer won three Grand Slam singles titles, becoming the first person to do so in a single season since Mats Wilander in His first major hard-court title came at the Australian Open over Marat Safin, making him the world No.
1 for the first time.[65] He then won the Indian Wells on hardcourts and the Hamburg Masters on clay, beating Tim Henman and Guillermo Coria in the finals respectively, snapping the latter's match winning streak on clay.[66] Federer won his second Wimbledon crown over Andy Roddick.[67]
At the Summer Olympics in Athens, Federer was the clear favorite after claiming the world No.
1 ranking for the first time earlier in the year.[65] However, he lost in the second round to year-old Tomáš Berdych.[68] He then won the Canada Masters, defeating Roddick in the final.[69] At the US Open, Federer defeated the champion, Lleyton Hewitt, for his first title there.[70] Federer also won his first tournament on home soil by capturing the Swiss Open in Gstaad and he wrapped up the year by winning the year-end championships for the second time after beating Hewitt in the final.[71]
His 11 singles titles were the most of any player in two decades, and his record of 74–6 was the best since Ivan Lendl in [72]
Consolidating dominance
Main article: Roger Federer tennis season
In , Federer failed to reach the finals of the first two Grand Slam tournaments, losing the Australian Open semifinal to eventual champion Safin after holding match points, and the French Open semifinal to eventual champion Rafael Nadal.[73] However, Federer reestablished his dominance on grass, winning Wimbledon for a third time by defeating Andy Roddick.[74] At the US Open, Federer defeated Andre Agassi in the latter's last major final.[75][76]
Federer also took four Masters wins: Indian Wells, Miami and Cincinnati on hard court, and Hamburg on clay.[75] The win in Miami was particularly noteworthy as it was the first final contested between Federer and Nadal.
Federer recovered from two sets down to take the final in five sets.
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1 for the entire season.[75]
That year, Federer won 11 singles titles, which tied his mark during the season. Federer's 81 match victories were the most since Pete Sampras in , and his record of 81–4 (%) remains the third-best winning percentage in the Open Era behind John McEnroe's and Jimmy Connors's [78]
Career-best season
Main article: Roger Federer tennis season
The season was statistically the best season of Federer's career.
In November , Stephen Tignor, chief editorial writer for , ranked Federer's season as statistically the second-best season of all time during the Open Era, behind Rod Laver's Grand Slam year of [79]
Federer won 12 singles titles (the most of any player since Thomas Muster in and John McEnroe in ) and had a match record of 92–5 (the most wins since Ivan Lendl in ).
Federer reached the finals in an astounding 16 of the 17 tournaments he entered during the season.[80]
In , Federer won three Grand Slam singles titles and reached the final of the other, with the only loss coming against Nadal in the French Open.[80] This was Federer and Nadal's first meeting in a Grand Slam final.
He was the first man to reach all four finals in a calendar year since Rod Laver in Federer defeated Nadal in the Wimbledon Championships final. In the Australian Open, Federer defeated Marcos Baghdatis,[81] and at the US Open, Federer defeated champion Roddick.[80] In addition, Federer reached six Masters finals, winning four on hard surfaces and losing two on clay to Nadal.
Federer, however, consistently pushed Nadal to the limit on clay throughout the season taking him to fourth-set tiebreakers in Monte-Carlo and Paris, and a thrilling match in Rome that went to a deciding fifth-set tiebreaker.[82]
Federer won one ATP series event in Tokyo and captured the year-end championships for the third time in his career, again finishing the year as world No.
1.[81] Federer only lost to two players during , to Nadal four times in finals, and to year-old Andy Murray in the second round of the Cincinnati Masters, in what was Federer's only defeat before the final of a tournament that year.[83] Federer finished the season on a match winning streak, as well as winning 48 of his last 49 matches after the French Open.[84]
Near the end of the season, he won his hometown tournament, the Swiss Indoors in Basel, Switzerland for the first time, having finished runner up in and , and missing the tournament in and due to injuries.[85]
Holding off young rivals
Main article: Roger Federer tennis season
In , Federer reached all four Grand Slam singles finals, winning three of them again.
Rf brand roger federer biography tennis player His rivalries with fellow greats, Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal are legendary, to say the least. ES Pressroom. It was reported that the logo was no longer being used by Federer or his sponsors, and that the design studio had been instructed to remove the logo from its website. As revealed by Federer in the video, the birth of the RF logo took place with a conversation that he had, with his wife Mirka Federer.At the Australian Open, he became the first man since Björn Borg in to win a major without dropping a set, beating Fernando González in the final.[86] Federer captured his fourth Dubai crown to extend his winning streak to 41 matches, the longest of his career and only five shy of the all-time record.
Federer then entered Indian Wells as the three-time defending champion, but his streak ended in controversy when he was defeated by Guillermo Cañas, who had failed a drug test for illegal doping.[87] This surprising first-round loss marked the first time that he was defeated since August , a period spanning over seven months.[88]
During the clay season, Federer snapped Nadal's match winning streak on clay, an Open-era record, in the final of the Hamburg Masters after turning the match around from a set down, including a final set bagel.[89] This win convinced some that Federer could win the French Open to become the first man in almost 40 years to hold all four majors simultaneously, but instead he lost in a four-set final to Nadal again.[90] At Wimbledon, Federer defeated Nadal for a second consecutive year in the final, this time in a thrilling five-set encounter that many analysts hailed as the greatest Wimbledon final since This victory equaled him with Björn Borg for the record of five consecutive Wimbledon championships.[91]
At the Canada Masters, Federer lost in the final to Novak Djokovic in a final-set tiebreaker upset.
Federer rebounded in Cincinnati to capture his fifth title of the year.[92] Federer entered the US Open as the three-time defending champion and faced Djokovic in the final. This time, Federer prevailed in a close straight-set match.[93] This victory moved him ahead of Laver and Borg for third on the all-time list of major championship victories.
He closed out the year with victories in Basel and the year-end championships in Shanghai.[94]
He finished the season as the year-end No. 1 for the fourth year in a row, compiling an impressive 68–9 record.
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Illness, Olympic gold, and fifth US Open
Main article: Roger Federer tennis season
Federer's success in was severely hampered by a lingering bout of mononucleosis, which he suffered during the first half of the year.[97] At the Australian Open Federer lost in the semifinals to eventual winner Djokovic, which ended his record of 10 consecutive finals.[98] He lost twice in Masters finals on clay to Nadal, at Monte Carlo and Hamburg.[98] Federer captured three titles playing in level events at Estoril, Halle, and Basel.[99][][] Federer was defeated by Nadal in two Grand Slam finals, the French Open and Wimbledon, which was regarded as the best match of tennis history by many, when he was going for six straight wins to break Björn Borg's record.
He came back from two sets down to force a fifth set, where he fell just two points from the title.[98]
At the Olympic Games, Federer and Stan Wawrinka won the gold medal in doubles by beating the Bryan brothers American team in the semifinals and the Swedish duo of Simon Aspelin and Thomas Johansson in the final.[] However, Federer could reach only the quarterfinals in the singles draw, bowing out to then No.
8 James Blake, thus ceding his No. 1 ranking to Nadal after being at the top for a record consecutive weeks.[] Federer captured his only Grand Slam of at the US Open, defeating Andy Murray in the final.[]
At the end of the year, Federer suffered a back injury, which caused him to withdraw from the Paris Masters and resulted in a poor showing at the year-end championship, where he was eliminated in the round-robin stage.[] This marked the only time in his career that he was eliminated before the semifinals.
Federer ended the year ranked No. 2.[]
Career Grand Slam and major title record
Main article: Roger Federer tennis season
Federer began the season with a loss to Nadal in the final of the Australian Open in a hotly contested five-set match.[] Federer struggled following the defeat in Melbourne and entered the clay season without a title.[]
Federer's season turned around in the final Masters event of the clay season when he defeated Nadal on clay for only the second time to capture the Madrid Masters.[] After Nadal's unexpected defeat to Robin Söderling, Federer became the overwhelming favorite to win the elusive French Open.
In his next match, he came from two sets and break point down in the third set to defeat Tommy Haas in five sets.[] He also fought back from a two-sets-to-one deficit against a young Juan Martín del Potro to win a five-setter in the semifinals.[] In the final, he defeated Söderling in straight sets to finally capture the Coupe des Mousquetaires and career Grand Slam.[] This victory also tied him with Pete Sampras for the most Grand Slam singles titles at []
In Wimbledon, Federer faced long-time rival Andy Roddick in the final in what was their eighth and final meeting at a Grand Slam.
The final was historic for being the longest Grand Slam final in terms of games played with Federer prevailing 16–14 in a record-setting fifth set, thus winning his 15th Grand Slam singles title and breaking the all-time record of Pete Sampras.[][] Federer continued his summer run by winning his third Cincinnati Masters, defeating Novak Djokovic in the final.[] For the third consecutive year, Federer defeated Djokovic in the semifinals of the US Open.
On the penultimate point, he hit what many consider to be the greatest shot of his career, a tweener winner, to set up match points.[] Federer was defeated by del Potro in the final despite falling just two points from the title in the fourth set.[]
Federer finished the season as the year-end No.
1 for the fifth time in his career.[]
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Fourth Australian Open
Main article: Roger Federer tennis season
Federer started the year with a win at the Australian Open, where he defeated Andy Murray in the final, extending the Grand Slam singles record to sixteen titles and matching Andre Agassi's record of four Australian Open titles.[][] Since Wimbledon, Federer had made 18 out of 19 finals in Grand Slam tournaments, a period of sustained excellence unparalleled in the Open Era.
This tournament, however, marked the end of his dominance at the majors.[]
At the French Open, Federer won his th tour match and th tour match on clay.[] However, he failed to reach a Grand Slam semifinal for the first time since the French Open, losing to Söderling in the quarterfinals and relinquishing his No.
1 ranking, having been just one week away from equaling Pete Sampras's record of weeks as world No. 1.[] In a huge upset at Wimbledon, Federer lost in the quarterfinals again to Tomáš Berdych and fell to No. 3 in the rankings for the first time in six years and eight months.[][]
Towards the middle of July, Federer hired Pete Sampras's old coach, Paul Annacone, on a trial basis to put his tennis game and career back on track.[] At the US Open, Federer reached the semifinals, where he lost a five-set match to Novak Djokovic after holding two match points.[] Federer reached four Masters finals prevailing against Mardy Fish