Nationality: SUI (Switzerland)
Birthplace: Basel, Switzerland
Residence: Bottmingen, Switzerland
Turned Pro: 1998
Plays: Right-handed
2009 Ranking: 1
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Began playing tennis at age eight...Mother, Lynette, is South African and father, Robert, is Swiss and they met on a business trip (they both worked for a phar ... Read Full Bio
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Strengths: Does everything well; big forehand; great footwork; fast
Weaknesses: Trouble hitting high backhands; 5-set record
With a superb performance, Federer matched the open-era record of winning four Australian Opens by winning against Andy Murray. It was also a time of firsts - first as a father, first of the new decade. Congrats Roger! In retrospective, Fed was just two points away from holding all four slams at the same, a non-calendar slam.
July 05: Federer has done it - by winning his 6th Wimbledon in a heart-wrenching final against Andy Roddick, Federer staked his claim on the history books by surpassing Pete Sampras' record. Tennis history is too tangled and intertwined by various events as Rod Laver says, "You know, it's hard for anyone to come out and say who's the best ever." And here's a salute to greats of the game. Federer is all set to enjoy the game for the rest of his career. Enjoy a look-back at Roger's career so far (courtesy of ATP Tour)
June 07: It's destiny at its finest hour. Admist the support of French crowd along with slight drizzle, Federer cracked his own Holy Grail - winning the French Open at his 10th attempt and his first win in four finals. Astonishing as it is, Federer has now equaled the Open Era record of 14 Grand slam titles. And fittingly, some inspiring words straight from Kipling - read by Federer and Nadal.
"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting..."
Oct 13: Federer stuck with his winning formula this year and reaped dividends as he won his fifth straight US Open title. Only three men in the history of the game has more US Open titles - Sears, Larned and the great Tilden. Here's a highlights video. Champions always have known to come back when the odds are small, lights are dim and the stage left behind..
Aug 17: Roger Federer has finally achieved his long-time dream of being an Olympic champion by winning an Olympics Gold with his good friend, Stan Wawrinka at the doubles. What a glorious day!
July 31: This devastating month of July will be viewed by fans and historians as a key turning point in Roger's career. From a heart-wrenching loss in the Wimbledon final to his twolosses in the hard court master series, the four years at the top has taken its toll. It's likely that is his Number One streak of 234 consecutive weeks will come to a screeching halt. "It's a pity", as Roger would say..
June 22: Against the green background of grass courts, Roger won Halle for the fifth time. The timing was impeccable to erase the disappointing memory of losing the final at Roland Garros the last three years.
Apr 25: Roger is back with a bang as he won a sensational match at Monte Carlo against his famous nemesis, David Nalbandian. Signs are here that Roger is finally fighting off the flu, lack of conditioning and match fitness. Now he plays Djokovic, to whom he lost at the Australian Open.
Mar 1: At Australian Open, after the stomach sickness, a tough 5-setter with Tipsarevic and loss in semi-finals against Djokovic, Federer gave a great, exhaustive interview as he starts Dubai Open this week. And he won the fourth straight Laureus and first to do so. Congrats Roger!
Dec 15: A nice video to wrap up the year. Great shots of Federer from 2007. Happy Holidays!
Oct 19: Here's a cool painting by Stephen Holland.
Sep 09: After a great summer on hard courts, winning at Cincy and finals at Montreal, Federer won his fourth consecutive US Open against wind, great fight from Djokovic and bomb serves from Isner and Roddick. Truly a great classy effort for his 12th Grand slam. Check out this great article. "Surely, watching Federer is the closest any of us will get to paradise on earth in a sports arena." claims this awesome article.
July 15: Federer did it with panache to a 5-peat at Wimbledon, as this commentary exclaims, "What Federer also did, and really only he could, was in one match pay homage to an entire history of tennis. He saluted Bill Tilden’s generation with his attire, honoured Laver’s grand Australians with his manners, Connors with his spirit, McEnroe with his art, Borg with five Wimbledon wins, and when he twice was 15.40 in the fifth, and used serves to extricate himself from distress, one word flew across the mind: Sampras." Can't say much better, can we?
June 23: The grass is always greener as Wimbledon is this Sunday! Roger fans unite and give him a big wish as he aims to match history in the next two weeks.
June 10: With a heart-breaker final against Nadal on the red clay, Federer skipped Halle to rest his minor injury. He has made the finals of 8 consecutive grand slam finals. Never done before!!
May 23: After breaking with his coach, Roger was on fire (crazy rally, reaction) against Nadal at Hamburg masters. With his fourth clay masters, Roger is on perfect timing for Roland Garros. Good luck Roger on the looming French Open test.
Roger Federer of Switzerland has won more Grand Slam tennis titles than any player in the history of men's tennis. He defeated Andy Roddick at Wimbledon in July 2009 for his 15th major victory, eclipsing the previous mark of 14 by Pete Sampras, the retired American champion. By breaking the record, Federer has positioned himself for consideration as the finest player ever.
His Wimbledon victory was epic. The fifth set stretched to 30 games before Federer finally broke Roddick's serve and prevailed 16-14. It was, in number of games, the longest fifth set ever played in a Grand Slam final. With the victory, he also reclaimed the world number one ranking from rival Raphael Nadal.
Federer won the French Open a month earlier - the one Grand Slam singles trophy he was lacking, and the only one of the game's four most prestigious tournaments to be played on clay.
Federer became the sixth man to win the singles title at all of the Grand Slam tournaments: the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon and the United States Open. The others to have managed it are Don Budge, Fred Perry, Roy Emerson, Rod Laver and Andre Agassi.
Federer has still not won the Grand Slam, which requires winning all four major titles in the same calendar year. (The only men to do that are Budge and Laver. Laver managed it in 1962 as an amateur and in 1969 as a professional.) But Federer's achievement at all four majors is without equivalent. He has won three titles and reached four finals in Australia. He has reached the final four times in Paris, and won once. He has won six titles and reached seven finals at Wimbledon. And he has taken five titles at the United States Open. All of this was achieved by the time he was 27, in a seven-year span.
Federer's victory at the French Open came after a year of disappointment. He had been ranked as the No. 1-seeded men's player in the world for more than four years - a record 237 consecutive weeks, from February 2, 2004 to August 17, 2008. In 2008, in the midst of that run, Rafael Nadal - who had won the last three French Opens - embarrassed him, 6-1, 6-3, 6-0, in the French Open final.
It was a harbinger of bigger disappointments. Nadal ended Federer's five-year run at Wimbledon, won the 2008 Olympic gold medal in singles and took over the No. 1 ranking. Although Federer recovered to win his fifth straight United States Open title in September 2008, he lost again to Nadal in 2009's first Grand slam tournament, the Australian Open.
Federer was born August 8, 1981 in Basel, in northwest Switzerland, bordering Germany and France. According to his biography at tennis-x.com, an informational tennis Web site, he began playing tennis at age 8. His mother, Lynette, is South African and his father, Robert, is Swiss; they met on a business trip. His idol was Boris Becker and his favorite was Pete Sampras.
Federer became the No. 1 junior tennis player in the world in 1998 and won the junior singles and doubles titles at Wimbledon that year. His first Grand Slam tournament was the French Open in 1999, where he lost in the first round to Patrick Rafter. He won his first Grand Slam singles title in 2003 at Wimbledon. He has established the Roger Federer Foundation to support projects that help children learn worldwide and that promote sports.
With his victory at Wimbledon, Federer has won 60 singles titles and more than $49 million dollars in prize money.
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