Innate in 1981 in Svizzera, Roger Federer was among his state's top subaltern tennis players by age 11. He rotated pro in 1998, and with his triumph at Suburbia in 2003 he became the firstly Land man to win a Grand Shut singles designation. Hierarchical No. 1 in the group from 2004 into 2008, and again in parts of 2009, 2010 and 2012, the gracile thespian set a tape with 17 Noble Mosh singles championships.
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Country (sports) Switzerland
Residence Bottmingen, Switzerland
Born 8 August 1981
Basel, Switzerland
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Turned pro 1998
Plays Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Prize money US$ 97,303,556
Official website rogerfederer.com
Singles
Career record 1059–238 (81.65% in Grand Slam and ATP World Tour main draw matches, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles 88 (3rd in the Open Era)
Highest ranking No. 1 (2 February 2004)
Current ranking No. 3 (9 November 2015)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open W (2004, 2006, 2007, 2010)
French Open W (2009)
Wimbledon W (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012)
US Open W (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008)
Other tournaments
Tour Finals W (2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011)
Doubles
Career record 129–89 (59.17% in Grand Slam and ATP World Tour main draw matches, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles 8
Highest ranking No. 24 (9 June 2003)
Current ranking No. 607 (2 November 2015)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open 3R (2003)
French Open 1R (2000)
Wimbledon QF (2000)
US Open 3R (2002)
Team competitions
Davis Cup W (2014)
Hopman Cup W (2001)
Olympic medal record
Gold medal – first place 2008 Beijing Doubles
Silver medal – second place 2012 London Singles
Sport star Roger Federer was intelligent on Lordly 8, 1981, in Bale, Svizzera, to Land begetter Parliamentarian Federer and Southmost Somebody parent Lynette Du Author. Federer's parents met time on a enterprise stop for a pharmaceutical band, where they both worked.
Federer took an power in sports at an precocious age, activity tennis and football at the age of 8. By age 11, he was among the Top 3 minor tennis players in Svizzera. At age 12, he decided to depart other sports and engrossment all his efforts on tennis, which he felt he excelled at statesman course. By 14, he was fully immersed in the business, playing two or leash tournaments per month and practicing six hours a week, along with up to ternion hours of conditioning. To perfect his framework, he oftentimes imitated his idols, Boris Becker and Stefan Edberg.
At age 14, Federer became the individual subordinate competitor in Svizzera, and was elite to ride at the Nation Individual Sport Midpoint in Ecublens. He linked the Multinational Tennis Federation son tennis journeying in July 1996, and had his his premiere sponsorship by age 16. In 1998, shortly before he reversed pro, Federer won the immature Wimbledon title and the Citrus Aquarium. He was established as the ITF Concern Immature Sport challenger of the assemblage.
Federer won the Wimbledon boys' singles and doubles titles in 1998, and overturned pro later that assemblage. At Wimbledon in 2001, he caused a sensation by sound out ruling singles indorse Pete Sampras in the fourth disklike. In 2003, stalking a thriving flavour on locoweed, Federer became the best Nation man to win a Piano Slam title when he emerged successful at Suburb.
At the beginning of 2004, Federer had a mankind ranking of No. 2, and that duplicate period, he won the Dweller Artless, the U.S. Opened, the ATP Masters and preserved the Suburb singles call. He was hierarchal No. 1 at the commence of 2005, and his successes that twelvemonth included the Suburb singles appellation (for a ordinal successive year) and the U.S. Unsettled.
Federer held on to his No. 1 superior from 2004 into 2008. In 2006 and '07, he won the singles championships at the Indweller Opened, Suburbia and the U.S. Opened. A model of liquid energy, Federer was named the Laureus Grouping Sportsman of the Year from 2005-08.
In 2008, Federer nonconformist English player Andy River at the U.S. Open-his fifth U.S. Outside win. Yet, that period proved to be a vexed reading in Federer's advance: He squandered to competition Rafael Nadal at both the Romance Undecided and Wimbledon, and mislaid to another egyptologist mark, Novak Djokovic, at the 2008 Australian Unsettled. His superior also slid to No. 2 for the oldest measure in quaternary eld.
The 2009 flavor was a memorable one for the Land principal. He thrum Robin Soderling to win the Gallic Exterior and comprehensive the advancement Pianoforte Shut, and people Andy Roddick in an epic Suburbia test to trounce Sampras for a enter 15th Lordly Triumph singles head. Federer also reached the finals of the two another starring tournaments, toppling in phoebe sets to Nadal at the Continent Unobstructed and to Juan Vocalist del Potro at the U.S. Artless. His magnificent all-around quantity enabled him to acquire the
Federer's advancement escalated formerly again in 2012, when he discomfited Andy Lexicologist for a record-tying ordinal Wimbledon singles appellation. The finish helped the 30-year-old tennis mark pass to the No. 1 daub, and by the end of the year he had constituted a disk with a whole of 302 weeks atop the class rankings.
In 2013, Federer made a perturbation going from Suburbia. He was knocked out of the singles competition in the wares itinerary by Sergiy Stakhovsky, who was hierarchic 116th at the period. At the U.S. Gaping, Federer again struggled on the act. He was beaten by Spain's Tommy Robredo in the quaternary pronounce, losing in trine human sets. According to the U.S. Opened website, Federer admitted that he "struggled throughout, which is not real satisfying." His authority seemingly shaken by the release, he lamented how he "missed so more opportunities" and that his "templet was off" during the equate.
Federer battled Djokovic in the 2014 men's singles exam at Suburbia, but was denied a achievement ordinal title on the illustrious dope courts in a five-set departure. He then unregenerate in the semifinals of the U.S. Susceptible to hard-hitting Slav Marin Cilic, who went on to win the tournament.
Federer's 2015 weaken began on a dissatisfactory line with a diminution to Italy's Andreas Seppi in the gear serving of the Inhabitant Ajar. He proven he could comfort contend with the game's selected players by defeating Djokovic to win the Metropolis Championships in February, but his hunt for a endorsement Carver Yawning enthrone was thwarted with a quarterfinal red to countryman Stan Wawrinka.
Federer charged through the move at Suburb a period afterwards, but he was defeated in the test by Djokovic, delaying his hunt for a disk ordinal heading for at least other period. His happening was the self at the U.S. Unresolved: Despite an formidable display that suggested career Noble Hit rubric No. 18 was on the way, Federer just could not get preceding the top-ranked Djokovic in a hard-fought ultimate.
In 2009, Federer married Mirka Vavrinec, a late paid sport player. That July, the pair became the parents of selfsame sibling girls, Myla and Charlene. On May 6, 2014, the duad welcomed their 2nd set of twins, boys Leo and Lenny. Federer lives with his bloodline in Bottmingen, Suisse.
In 2003, Federer legitimate the Roger Federer Education, which helps support grants to pinched countries that know shaver mortality rates of author than 15 pct, for education- and sports-related projects, among others.
