Roger Federer
Evolution of the game, "First, there was tennis, then there is Roger Federer."
GOAT..! Greatest of All Time. It has
been 18 years the great Roger Federer started playing professional tennis and
is reigning the sport since then. I would say it would be bit unfair for the
blog as it is written by one of the biggest fan of Roger Federer but then,
this blog is for all RF fans.
Roger
Federer, Swiss tennis player, who dominated the sport in the early
21st century with his exceptional all-around game. His total of 17 career men’s
singles Grand Slam
championships is the most in tennis history.
Roger Federer is much more than a
tennis player, he has achieved so much in his career and even though being as
calm and down to earth human being make him an ideal for thousands and
thousands of youngsters around the world.
In one word I would say he is peRfect.
Having said that let us know more
about his life and how he achieved this stature with his perseverance, hard
work and inimitable talent.
Early Life
Roger
Federer was born on August 8, 1981, in Basel, Switzerland, to Swiss father
Robert Federer and South African mother Lynette Du Rand. Federer took an
interest in sports at an early age, playing tennis and soccer at the age of 8.
By age 11, he was among the Top 3 junior tennis players in Switzerland. At age
12, he decided to quit other sports and focus all his efforts on tennis, which
he felt he excelled at more naturally. By 14, he was fully immersed in the
game, playing two or three tournaments per month and practicing six hours a
week. To perfect his technique, he often imitated his idols, Boris Becker
(Novak Djokovic current coach) and Stefan Edberg (Federer’s current coach).
Career Stats
ROGER FEDERER
Switzerland
| Plays: Right | Turned Pro: 1998
1
|
Weeks at
Number One
|
302
|
2
|
Won :
Lost
|
1047 :
234
|
3
|
Tournaments
Played
|
337
|
4
|
Singles
Titles
|
87
|
5
|
Grand
Slam Titles
|
17
|
6
|
Doubles
Title
|
8
|
7
|
Olympic
Medals
|
2
|
8
|
Current
ATP ranking
|
2
|
9
|
Net
Worth
|
$300
million
|
Tally of
Grand Slam titles -
Tournament
|
Year
|
Total
|
Australian Open
|
2004, 2006, 2007, 2010
|
4
|
French Open
|
2009
|
1
|
Wimbledon
|
2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 , 2009,
2012
|
7
|
US Open
|
2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
|
5
|
Roger Federer new SABR Attack..!!
Awards
- 4x Laureus
Sports Award, World Sportsman of the Year (2005-2008)
- 5x ITF
Player of the Year (2004-2007, 2009)
- 3x
L’Equipe’s Champion of Champions (2005-2007)
- 12x Fan’s
Favorite, ATPWorldTour.com (2003-2014)
- 10x Stefan
Edberg Sportsmanship Award (2004-2009, 2011-2014)
- 2x Arthur
Ashe Humanitarian of the Year (2006, 2013)
- 1x Swiss of
the Year (2003)
- 6x Swiss Athlete of the Year
(2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2012, 2014)
- Special edition stamp by Swiss
Post (2007, as the first person still alive)
- Special
edition stamp by Austrian Post (2010)
Records
Grand Slam tournaments (not including records at single Grand Slam tournaments)
·
Most Grand Slam tournaments won (17).*
·
Most Grand Slam finals played (26).*
· Titles at all four Grand Slam events (also:
Perry, Budge, Laver, Emerson, Agassi, Nadal). Roger is the only player next to
Agassi and Nadal to have won these tournaments on three different
surfaces.
· Victory in his first seven Grand Slam finals
(Series ended at the French Open 2006; record shared with Sears).
· Three victories at Grand Slam tournaments in the
same season during three years (2004, 2006, 2007).
· Eleven matches in series won at Grand Slam
tournaments without dropping a set (Australian Open and French Open 2007; John
McEnroe also achieved this 1984).
· Most consecutive sets won at Grand Slam
tournaments (36; Australian Open and French Open 2007).
·
Most aces in a Grand Slam final (50, Wimbledon
2009).
Roger Federer Foundation
In 2003,
Federer established the Roger Federer Foundation, which helps provide grants to
poor countries that have child mortality rates of more than 15 percent, for
education- and sports-related projects, among others.
To know
more about the Roger Federer Foundation the initiative he has
taken to make world a better place, visit the website http://www.rogerfedererfoundation.org/en/home/ .
This is one of the qualities of this great man that still he
is connected to his roots after achieving so much success.
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