Roger Federer

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Roger Federer

Country	Switzerland
Residence	Oberwil, Switzerland
Date of birth	August 8, 1981
Place of birth	Basel, Switzerland
Height	188 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	80 kg
Turned Pro	1998
Plays	Right; One-handed backhand
Career Prize Money	$28,576,458
Singles
Career record:	483-125
Career titles:	45 (10th in overall rankings)
Highest ranking:	No. 1 (February 2, 2004)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	W (2004, 2006)
French Open	F (2006)
Wimbledon	W (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006)
U.S. Open	W (2004, 2005, 2006)
Doubles
Career record:	102-64
Career titles:	7
Highest ranking:	No. 24 (June 9, 2003)
Infobox last updated on: November 20, 2006.

Roger Federer (born August 8, 1981) is a Swiss professional tennis player whose achievements rank him among the most successful tennis players of all time. Federer is currently the World No. 1 ranked player and is regarded by many, including his peers, as having the potential to be the greatest player of all time.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

In 2004, Federer became the first man since Mats Wilander in 1988 to win three out of the four Grand Slam singles tournaments in the same year. In 2006, Federer repeated this feat and became the first man in the open era to win at least ten singles championships in three consecutive years. He has won nine Grand Slam men's singles titles in 30 appearances, three Tennis Masters Cup, and 12 ATP Masters Series singles titles. He is the only player to have won both the Wimbledon and U.S. Open singles titles in three consecutive years (2004-2006).

He has been ranked number 1 continuously since February 2, 2004. As of November 14, 2006, his ranking points lead was enough to ensure that in February 2007, he will break the existing consecutive weeks record for being the top ranked male player. ^[6]

[edit] Biography

Federer was born in the small town of Binningen (near Basel, Switzerland), to Swiss-German Robert Federer and South African Lynette Federer. He grew up 10 minutes from Basel proper, in suburban Münchenstein. Federer has an older sister.

Federer considers his main language German, but he also speaks French and English fluently.^[7] He conducts press conferences in all of them.

Federer spends his off-court time playing card games, table tennis, and other sports and sitting on the beach. He currently resides in Oberwil, Switzerland and is dating former WTA player and fellow Swiss Miroslava Vavrinec (Mirka), who retired from the game in 2002 after a foot injury. The two met at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

He co-established the Roger Federer Foundation in December 2003. Its goals include funding projects that benefit disadvantaged children, primarily in South Africa. In January 2005, he encouraged efforts from tennis players for the people affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, saying he would play as many matches as possible in tournaments organized to raise funds for the tsunami victims and auctioned off his autographed rackets to raise funds for UNICEF's relief operations.

Federer also launched a fragrance and cosmetics line called RF Cosmetics in October 2003.

On April 3, 2006, Federer was appointed a Goodwill Ambassador to UNICEF,^[8] which helps poor children from all parts of the world.

[edit] Tennis

[edit] Career through 2005

Roger Federer at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Federer at Wimbledon, 2005

Federer started playing tennis at the age of six.^[9] He also practiced football alongside tennis until he was twelve, when he chose tennis as the sport to focus on. He started having tennis group practice at the age of nine and weekly private coaching when he was ten. At fourteen, he became the national champion for all age groups in Switzerland and was chosen to train at the Swiss National Tennis Center at Ecublens. He joined the ITF junior tennis circuit in July 1996.^[10]

In 1998 - his last year as a junior - Federer won the Wimbledon juniors title and the year-ending Orange Bowl. He was recognized as the ITF World Junior Tennis champion for the year. In July 1998, he joined the ATP tour.

Federer debuted for the Swiss Davis Cup team in 1999 and finished the year as the youngest player inside the ATP's top 100 ranked players.

In 2000, Federer reached the semifinals at the Sydney Olympics and lost the bronze medal match to Arnaud Di Pasquale of France. Federer was also the runner-up in Basel and Marseille.

Federer's first ATP tournament victory came in Milan in February 2001. During the same month, he won three matches for his country in 3-2 Davis Cup victory over the United States. He later reached the quarterfinals at Wimbledon, defeating four-time defending champion Pete Sampras along the way (a victory that many consider to be a turning point of his career), and finished the year ranked 13th.

In 2002, Federer reached his first ATP Masters Series (AMS) final at the Miami Masters, where he lost to Andre Agassi. He won his next AMS final in Hamburg. He also won both his Davis Cup singles matches against former world number ones (Russians Marat Safin and Yevgeny Kafelnikov). Despite early-round exits at the French Open, Wimbledon, and the U.S. Open, and the untimely loss of his long-time Australian coach and mentor Peter Carter in a car crash in August, Federer reached No. 6 in the ATP Champions Race by the end of 2002 and qualified for the first time in the year-ending Tennis Masters Cup. Federer lost in the semifinals of that tournament to Lleyton Hewitt.

Federer started 2003 by winning consecutive tournaments in Dubai and Marseille. He won in Munich without losing a set, but suffered a first-round loss at the French Open. On July 6, 2003, he defeated Mark Philippoussis and won his first Grand Slam title at Wimbledon as the first Swiss male player to do so. He dropped only one set during the entire tournament. He also won four Davis Cup matches during the year to lead Switzerland to the semifinals of the World Group. He finished 2003 by winning the Tennis Masters Cup at Houston and ranking second in the ATP tour race. In December, he parted ways with Peter Lundgren, his coach for four years.

In 2004, Federer had one of the most dominating and successful years in the open era of modern men's tennis. He won three of the four Grand Slam singles tournaments, lost to no one ranked in the top ten, and won every final he reached. He won his first Australian Open title by defeating Marat Safin in straight sets, successfully defended his Wimbledon title by defeating Andy Roddick, and won his first U.S. Open title by defeating Hewitt. He finished the year by taking the Tennis Masters Cup at Houston for the second consecutive year. His win-loss record for the year was 74-6 with 11 titles. Federer was named the ITF Tennis World Champion and Laureus World Sportsman of the Year in early 2005, edging out the likes of Michael Schumacher, Valentino Rossi, Lance Armstrong, and Michael Phelps.

Throughout 2004, Federer did not have a coach, relying instead on his fitness trainer Pierre Paganini, physiotherapist Pavel Kovac, and a management team composed of his parents, his girlfriend Mirka Vavrinec (also his manager), and a few friends. For 2005 and onwards, Federer arranged for former Australian tennis player Tony Roche to coach him on a limited basis.

Federer reached the 2005 Australian Open semifinals before falling to eventual winner Safin in a five-set night match that lasted more than four hours. He rebounded to win the year's first two AMS titles: Indian Wells (by defeating Hewitt) and Miami (by defeating Rafael Nadal of Spain). He won his third Hamburg clay court title in May by defeating Richard Gasquet, to whom he had earlier lost in Monte Carlo. He then entered the French Open as one of the favorites, losing in the semifinals in four sets to eventual winner Nadal. Federer successfully defended his Wimbledon title for the third consecutive year by defeating Roddick in a rematch of the previous year's final. Federer also defeated Roddick in Cincinnati to take his fourth AMS title of the year (and sweep all the American AMS events) and become the first player in AMS history to win four titles in one season. He then dropped only two sets en route to his second consecutive U.S. Open title, defeating Andre Agassi in four sets in the final. He became the first man in the open era to win Wimbledon and the U.S. Open back-to-back in consecutive years (2004 and 2005). He failed to defend his Tennis Masters Cup title, however, losing to David Nalbandian of Argentina in a four-and-a-half hour, five-set match. Had he won the match, he would have finished the year 82-3, tieing John McEnroe's 1984 record for the highest yearly winning percentage in the open era.

[edit] 2006

Roger Federer playing in Basel against Paradorn Srichaphan at the Swiss Indoors, 2006

In January 2006, Federer won the Australian Open by defeating the Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis. This win marked Federer's third consecutive Grand Slam championship. In March, he successfully defended his titles at the Indian Wells and Miami Masters to become the first player ever to win the Indian Wells-Miami double in consecutive years.

At the French Open in 2006, Federer pursued the only Grand Slam he had not yet won. He entered the tournament as the top seed and had the goal of winning not only a career Grand Slam, but also to become the first man since Rod Laver to hold all four Grand Slam singles titles at the same time, although he would have done so in a two-year schedule. He lost the final to defending champion Rafael Nadal in four sets. Although the title eluded him, he became one of only two then-active players who had reached the finals of all four Grand Slam singles tournaments, the other being Andre Agassi.

Federer entered Wimbledon as the top seed and moved through a draw containing Richard Gasquet, Tim Henman, Nicolas Mahut, Tomáš Berdych, Mario Ancic (who was the last man to beat him on grass at Wimbledon in 2002), and Jonas Björkman, to reach the final without dropping a set.^[11] There, Federer beat Nadal to win the championship 6-0, 7-6, 6-7, 6-3. This was Federer's fourth consecutive Wimbledon title (2003-2006), matching the achievement of Pete Sampras (1997-2000). He is still one behind Björn Borg, who won five straight Wimbledon titles from 1976-80.

Federer also won the 2006 Rogers Cup, defeating Richard Gasquet of France in the final 2-6, 6-3, 6-2.

At the U.S. Open, Federer defeated seventh seeded Nikolay Davydenko in a semifinal, after beating James Blake in four sets. In the final, he defeated Andy Roddick 6-2, 4-6, 7-5, 6-1 for his third consecutive title at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. Along with Justine Henin-Hardenne, who lost the women's final of the U.S. Open, it was the first time in the history of tennis that both a man and a woman had reached all four Grand Slam singles finals within a calendar year.

At the Tennis Masters Cup, Federer defeated Blake 6-0, 6-3, 6-4 in the final to win his third career singles title there. Federer also pocketed U.S. $1.52 million.

In 2006, Federer lost to only two players: Nadal in the French Open final, Rome final, Monte Carlo final, and Dubai final; and Andy Murray in the second round of the Cincinnati Masters. The loss to Murray was Federer's only straight-sets loss of the year.

[edit] Coaches

• 1989–1994: Seppli Kacovsky (Switzerland). Kacovsky was the head coach of the Old Boys’ Tennis Club^[12] in Federer’s home town of Basel. Roger joined Old Boys' when he was eight years old and trained there until '94.
• 1991–1995, 1997–1998: Peter Carter (Australia). Carter privately coached Federer on a weekly basis, from the age of 10 to 14. They reunited again in a new training facility in Biel in 1997, and Carter continued coaching Federer on and off until he turned pro.
• 1995–1997: After he became the Swiss junior champion, Federer was selected to join the Swiss National Tennis center in Ecublens, Vaud. He continued to train there until he finished school.
• 1999–2003: Peter Lundgren (Sweden). Federer chose former top-25 player Lundgren, who he met in Biel, as his coach when he entered the professional circuit. He still consulted frequently with Carter.
• 2005–Present: Tony Roche (Australia). Roche is a former Australian tennis champion who previously coached Patrick Rafter, as well as Ivan Lendl, to the world number one ranking. He is scheduled to help Federer for a few weeks before Grand Slam and Tennis Master Series tournaments.

[edit] Playing Style

Federer employs a versatile, all-court playing style and can hit all of the fundamental shots very well. He is an adept volleyer and an excellent baseliner who can dictate play with precise groundstrokes from both wings.

Like many modern players, he uses a semi-western grip for his forehand. Federer hits through his forehand on a straighter plane than nearly any other player and has been clocked at speeds as high as 192 km/h (120 mph) ^{[citation needed]}. He can generate extreme top-spin with the shot as well, allowing him to open up cross court angles while still hitting the ball with pace. Federer plays with a one-handed backhand, which has improved over the last few years. Although critics and coaches consider his backhand to have been his weaker side, it has developed into one of the best backhands in the game. Federer tends to hit his groundstrokes early after the bounce, while the ball is still on the rise, much like Agassi did. While this requires excellent reactions and footwork, it means that Federer hits his groundstrokes closer to the net than most of his opponents. This reduces the reaction time of his opponents and allows him to hit the sharply angled winners that are a trademark of his game.

His serve is difficult to read because he tosses the ball consistently in the same spot regardless of where he intends to serve it, and because he turns his back to his opponents during his motion. His first serve is typically around 200 kph/125mph (although he is capable of serving into the 210kph/130mph range), with his second serve usually being a heavily kicked delivery. Federer generally serves with placement and precision, but on occasion he will hit a powerful serve to keep his opponents off balance.

His footwork, balance, and court coverage are exceptional, and he is considered to be one of the fastest movers in the game. He can hit a strong shot on the run or while backpedaling, allowing him to switch from defense to offense as well as any player on tour.

While Federer's playing style appears relaxed and smooth, this belies an aggressive and opportunistic game plan. Federer constructs points to get in a position from where he can make outright winners with his groundstrokes. Federer has mentioned that he has been able to "read" his opponents' moves, which helps him to construct these plays.

One overlooked aspect of his game is his stamina. This is compounded by the fact that opponents will often run and serve much more than him during a game - Nadal is one player that can cope with this, while other players cannot. For example, Andy Roddick was visibly tiring in the 4th set of the 2006 US Open Final.

[edit] Records and trivia

• In 1999, Federer was the youngest player (18 years, 4 months) in the ATP ranking's year end top 100.
• In 2001, Federer ended Pete Sampras' 31 match unbeaten streak at Wimbledon in the fourth round.
• By winning Wimbledon in 2003, Federer joined Stefan Edberg, Pat Cash, and Björn Borg as the only players to win both the juniors' and men's Wimbledon championships.
• Federer was presented the inaugural "Golden Bagel Award" in 2004, a light-hearted award based on a trivial statistic given to the men's professional tennis player who serves up the most "bagels" (sets won 6-0) in any given year. Federer gave out 12 "bagels" in 2004 and 19 in 2006. His 6-0, 6-0 win over Gaston Gaudio in a semifinal of the 2005 Tennis Masters Cup was the first time a Masters Cup match had been won with a "double bagel". Since turning 18, Federer has not been bagelled himself.
• Federer is the first player to win four Tennis Masters Series titles in one season. He also is only the third player to have won all four North American ATP Masters Series events in a career (along with Andre Agassi and Michael Chang).
• In a semifinal of the 2004 Tennis Masters Cup, Federer won a second set tiebreak against Marat Safin 20-18. This tiebreak lasted 26 minutes and tied the record for the longest tiebreak (in terms of points) ever played since the tiebreak system was introduced in 1970. Besides Federer, only Björn Borg (1st round Wimbledon 1973 against Premjit Lal), Goran Ivanišević (1st round U.S. Open 1993 against Daniel Nestor and semifinal Queen's Club 1997 against Greg Rusedski), and José Acasuso (1st round Canada Masters 2006 against Bjorn Phau) have won such drawn out tiebreaks.
• Federer lost in a semifinal of both the 2005 Australian Open and 2005 French Open tournaments to the eventual winner: Safin in Melbourne and Rafael Nadal in Paris. Both Safin and Nadal were celebrating their respective birthdays on the day they defeated Federer.
• With an 81-4 record in 2005, Federer's winning percentage of 95.3 was second only to John McEnroe's open era winning record of 96.5% (82-3) in 1984.
• Winning the 2005 Halle doubles title with fellow Swiss Yves Allegro marked the fact that Federer has now won singles and doubles titles on all four surfaces: hardcourt, clay, carpet, and grass. (Singles: Sydney 2002 (hard), Hamburg 2002 (clay), Milan 2001 (carpet), and Halle 2003 (grass); Doubles: Rotterdam 2001 (hard), Gstaad 2001 (clay), Moscow 2002 (carpet), and Halle 2005 (grass).)
• Federer is the only male tennis player to have won eight Grand Slam singles titles in three years.
• By reaching the final of the 2006 U.S. Open, Federer became the first man in the open era to reach six consecutive Grand Slam finals (winning five of the six).
• By reaching the semifinals at the 2006 U.S. Open, Federer tied Ivan Lendl's record of ten consecutive Grand Slam semifinal appearances.
• Federer won four consecutive titles at one event for the first time on June 18, 2006, at the Gerry Weber Open and tied Borg's record of 41 straight grass-court wins with a 6-0, 6-7, 6-2 victory over Tomas Berdych. He repeated this feat by winning his fourth consecutive Wimbledon championship on July 9, 2006, beating Nadal in the final.
• By winning the 2006 U.S. Open, Federer became the only male player (and the only player in the open era) to win both Wimbledon and the U.S. Open in the same year for three consecutive years.
• As of November 20, 2006, Federer has won 45 of 58 finals during his career, for a winning percentage of 77.6 percent. This compares to 72.7 percent by Sampras, 71.3 percent by McEnroe, and 70.5 percent by Borg.
• From 2004 through 2006, Federer had the best three-year match and tournament winning percentages since the inception of the ATP Rankings in 1973. Federer won 94.3 percent of his singles matches (247-15) and 69.4 percent of the singles tournaments he entered (34 titles in 49 tournaments, including eight of twelve Grand Slam tournaments). The three-year match winning percentage record was previously owned by Lendl, who won 92.1% of his singles matches from 1985 through 1987.
• In 2006, Federer became the first player in ATP Master Series history, which dates to 1990, to win four shields in each of two consecutive years.
• During the 2006 ATP Masters Series tournament in Madrid, Federer reached the 80 win plateau for the second straight year. The last player to win at least 80 matches in consecutive years was Lendl, who went 106-26 in 1980, 96-14 in 1981 and 106-9 in 1982.
• In 2006, Federer reached the final in 16 of the 17 tournaments he played, setting a new record of 94.1% finals appearances.^{[citation needed]} This eclipsed McEnroe's 93.3% set in 1984.^{[citation needed]}
• In 2006, Federer was the first man after Lendl to reach four consecutive Tennis Masters Cup finals. Lendl reached a record total of nine consecutive Masters Cup finals.
• In 2006, Federer earned U.S. $8,343,885 in prize money, breaking the previous record of U.S. $6,498,311 earned by Sampras in 1997.

[edit] Streaks

• On October 26, 2006, Federer became only the second player in the open era, the other being Bjorn Borg^{[citation needed]}, to have held five winning streaks of more than twenty matches.
• Federer's victory at the 2004 U.S. Open marked the first time in the open era that anyone had won his first four Grand Slam finals. He eventually won his first seven Grand Slam finals before losing to Rafael Nadal in the 2006 French Open final. Only Federer, American Richard Sears, and Briton William Renshaw won their first seven Grand Slam singles finals. As of the end of 2006, he had won nine of ten Grand Slam singles finals, the highest percentage among the twelve players with at least eight career Grand Slam singles titles.
• In 2004, Federer became the first player since Ivan Lendl in 1986-87 to win back-to-back Tennis Masters Cup titles without losing a match.
• In 2004, Federer became the tenth different player in the open era to win at least eleven singles titles in a year. He is the first year-end No. 1 to win eleven titles since Lendl in 1985. In addition, Federer is the only player to win at least ten titles in a season without losing in a final. Federer in 2006 became the first man since Thomas Muster in 1995 to win twelve titles in one year.
• Federer is the first player since Borg in 1979 to win consecutive tournaments on three different surfaces, having captured titles at Wimbledon (grass), Gstaad (clay), and Toronto (hard).
• Federer won a record 26 consecutive matches against top ten ranked opponents. The streak lasted from October 2003 to January 2005, when he lost to Marat Safin in a semifinal of the Australian Open.
• Federer won his 30th consecutive match over American players when he defeated James Blake in the final of the 2006 Tennis Masters Cup. His last loss to an American was to Andy Roddick in a semifinal of the 2003 Canadian Masters.
• Federer's loss against Richard Gasquet in the 2005 Monte Carlo Masters brought his win-loss tally to 35-2 for 2005, the best start on the men's tour since John McEnroe, who holds the record with 39-0 in 1984.
• Federer has won four consecutive men's singles titles at Wimbledon, a feat accomplished only by Borg and Sampras in the open era. In the 28 matches Federer played at Wimbledon from 2003 through 2006, he dropped just five sets (winning 84). In comparison, Borg and Sampras lost fifteen and fourteen sets respectively over a similar four-year period.
• Federer has won at least seventy matches in four consecutive seasons (2003: 78-17, 2004: 74-6, 2005: 81-4, 2006: 92-5).
• Federer is the fifth player in the history of the ATP computer rankings to rank No. 1 every week during a calendar year (others: Jimmy Connors, Lendl, Sampras, and Lleyton Hewitt), having accomplished this feat in both 2005 and 2006.
• Federer holds a record five winning streaks of at least twenty matches. The first streak was a 23 matches in mid-2004. The second streak was 26 matches spanning the latter half of 2004 and early 2005. The third streak was 25 matches in early 2005. The fourth streak was 35 matches at the end of 2005. (This streak was the fifth longest in the men's game, on par with Thomas Muster's streak in 1995 and Borg's streak in 1978.) The fifth streak started at the 2006 U.S. Open and had reached 29 matches as of November 20, 2006, including tournament victories at the U.S. Open, Tokyo, ATP Masters Series in Madrid, Davidoff Swiss Indoors in Basel, and Tennis Masters Cup in Shanghai.
• By winning in Bangkok in September 2005, Federer had won his 24th straight final dating back to Vienna in October 2003. His undefeated streak in finals is a new open era record. The previous record was twelve straight final wins, shared by McEnroe and Borg. It marked also the first time Federer won five consecutive tournaments he entered. Nalbandian's win over Federer in the final of the Tennis Masters Cup meant the end of two records: his finals streak of 24 and his 35-match overall winning streak.
• With his victory over Marcos Baghdatis at the 2006 Australian Open, Federer became the first man to win three consecutive Grand Slam titles since Sampras in 1993-94.
• After Federer's third round win over Tommy Haas at the Nasdaq 100 Open in Key Biscayne, Florida, Federer broke the previous record for consecutive matches won in Masters Series events, held at nineteen by Sampras. His streak reached 29 matches before he lost to Nadal.
• Federer holds the record for most consecutive singles wins in North America, winning 55 matches before losing to Andy Murray in August 2006. This loss also stopped Federer’s streak of 17 consecutive finals reached, just one shy of Lendl’s record 18 consecutive finals in 1981 and 1982.
• By winning the Nasdaq 100 Open title in Key Biscayne, Florida, on April 2, 2006, Federer became the only player in history to win the first two Masters Series events of the year two years in a row.^[13] It was also his eleventh consecutive final and tenth Masters Series title.
• Federer owns twelve Masters Series shields, one greater than Pete Sampras. He is second only to Andre Agassi, who has seventeen Masters shields.
• Federer holds the longest winning streak on hard courts: 56 matches (2005-06). The streak was ended by Nadal in the Dubai final in March 2006. At the U.S. Open, he started yet another major hard court streak, which reached 24 consecutive wins as of November 20, 2006 (including tournament victories at the U.S. Open, Tokyo, Davidoff Swiss Indoors in Basel, Tennis Masters Cup in Shanghai, and two Davis Cup matches in Geneva against Serbia-Montenegro)
• With his win against Richard Gasquet in the first round of the 2006 Wimbledon, Federer surpassed Borg's 41-match grass court winning streak record. Borg set this record from 1976 to 1981, while playing Wimbledon only. Federer then won his fourth consecutive Wimbledon title with a victory over Nadal, taking the streak to 48.
• By winning the 2006 ATP Masters Series tournament in Madrid, Federer became the only player in the open era to have won at least ten singles titles in each of three consecutive years. He has won at least eleven titles during each of 2004, 2005, and 2006.
• On November 16, 2006, Federer's win over Ivan Ljubicic extended his run as the only person to remain unbeaten in the round robin stage of the Tennis Masters Cup, for a record five years.

[edit] Ranking and points records

• With his tournament victory at the 2006 Tennis Masters Cup, Federer set a new record of 1,674 ATP Race points, eclipsing his 2005 record of 1,345. He had also held the previous record of 1,267 points in 2004, which had broken Andy Roddick's 907-point total in 2003.
• With total points of 6,335 at the end of 2004, 6,725 at the end of 2005, and 8,370 at the end of 2006, Federer finished with the highest number of year-ending ATP tour ranking points since the ATP circuit began in 1990, although the points breakdown changed slightly in 2000. The previous year-ending highest rating was Pete Sampras' 5,097 points in 1994.
• Federer holds the record for the highest ranking points at any time of the year: 8,370 points (November 20, 2006).
• As of November 20, 2006, Federer has held the #1 spot on the ATP rankings for 147 consecutive weeks.
• Federer's win at the 2006 Tennis Masters Cup mathematically guaranteed that he will surpass Jimmy Connors' all-time record for most consecutive weeks atop the men's rankings -- 160 weeks -- on February 26, 2007.
• Federer's run at the top surpasses the overall career total of Björn Borg (sixth), who held that spot for 109 weeks. Only John McEnroe (170 weeks), Connors (268 weeks), Ivan Lendl (270 weeks), and Sampras (286 weeks) have had longer career totals as number one.

[edit] Awards

[edit] 2003

• ATP European Player of the Year.
• Swiss Sportsman of the Year.
• Swiss of the Year.
• Michael-Westphal Award.

[edit] 2004

• ATP European Player of the Year.
• ITF World Champion.
• Sports Illustrated Tennis Player of the Year.
• Swiss Sportsman of the Year.
• Swiss of the Year.
• European Sportsman of the Year.
• Reuters International Sportsman of the Year.
• BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year.
• International Tennis Writers Association (ITWA) Player of the Year.

[edit] 2005

• Ambassador of United Nations' Year of Sport and Physical Education.
• Goldene Kamera Award.
• ATP Player of the Year (for the year 2004).
• Stefan Edberg Sportmanship Award.
• ATPTennis.com Fan's Favourite.
• Laureus World Sportsman of the Year.
• Michael-Westphal Award.
• International Tennis Writers Association (ITWA) Player of the Year.
• International Tennis Writers Ambassador for Tennis.
• Most Outstanding Athlete by the United States Sport's Academy.
• Freedom Air People’s Choice Sports Awards International Sportsperson of the Year.^[14]
• ITF World Champion.
• European Sportsman of the Year.
• ESPY Best Male Tennis Player.

[edit] 2006

• L'Equipe Magazine's Champion of Champions (for the year 2005).
• ATP Player of the Year (for the year 2005).
• Stefan Edberg Sportmanship Award.
• ATPTennis.com Fan's Favourite.
• Laureus World Sportsman of the Year.
• ESPY Best Male Tennis Player.

[edit] Grand Slam singles finals

[edit] Wins (9)

Year	Championship	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
2003	Wimbledon	Mark Philippoussis	7-6(5), 6-2, 7-6(3)
2004	Australian Open	Marat Safin	7-6(3), 6-4, 6-2
2004	Wimbledon (2)	Andy Roddick	4-6, 7-5, 7-6(3), 6-4
2004	U.S. Open	Lleyton Hewitt	6-0, 7-6(3), 6-0
2005	Wimbledon (3)	Andy Roddick	6-2, 7-6(2), 6-4
2005	U.S. Open (2)	Andre Agassi	6-3, 2-6, 7-6(1), 6-1
2006	Australian Open (2)	Marcos Baghdatis	5-7, 7-5, 6-0, 6-2
2006	Wimbledon (4)	Rafael Nadal	6-0, 7-6(5), 6-7(2), 6-3
2006	U.S. Open (3)	Andy Roddick	6-2, 4-6, 7-5, 6-1

[edit] Finalist (1)

Year	Championship	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
2006	French Open	Rafael Nadal	1-6, 6-1, 6-4, 7-6(4)

[edit] Tennis Masters Cup singles finals

[edit] Wins (3)

Year	Venue	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
2003	Houston	Andre Agassi	6-3, 6-0, 6-4
2004	Houston	Lleyton Hewitt	6-3, 6-2
2006	Shanghai	James Blake	6-0, 6-3, 6-4

[edit] Finalist (1)

Year	Venue	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
2005	Shanghai	David Nalbandian	6-7(4), 6-7(11), 6-2, 6-1, 7-6(3)

[edit] Masters Series singles finals

[edit] Wins (12)

Year	Championship	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
2002	Hamburg	Marat Safin	6-1, 6-3, 6-4
2004	Indian Wells	Tim Henman	6-3, 6-3
2004	Hamburg (2)	Guillermo Coria	4-6, 6-4, 6-2, 6-3
2004	Toronto	Andy Roddick	7-5, 6-3
2005	Indian Wells (2)	Lleyton Hewitt	6-2, 6-4, 6-4
2005	Miami	Rafael Nadal	2-6, 6-7(4), 7-6(5), 6-3, 6-1
2005	Hamburg (3)	Richard Gasquet	6-3, 7-5, 7-6(4)
2005	Cincinnati	Andy Roddick	6-3, 7-5
2006	Indian Wells (3)	James Blake	7-5, 6-3, 6-0
2006	Miami (2)	Ivan Ljubičić	7-6(5), 7-6(4), 7-6(6)
2006	Toronto (2)	Richard Gasquet	2-6, 6-3, 6-2
2006	Madrid	Fernando González	7-5, 6-1, 6-0

[edit] Finalist (4)

Year	Championship	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
2002	Miami	Andre Agassi	6-3, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4
2003	Rome	Félix Mantilla	7-5, 6-2, 7-6(10)
2006	Monte Carlo	Rafael Nadal	6-2, 6-7(2), 6-3, 7-6(5)
2006	Rome (2)	Rafael Nadal	6-7(0), 7-6(5), 6-4, 2-6, 7-6(5)

[edit] Titles (52)

[edit] Singles (45)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	4 February 2001	Milan, Italy	Carpet (i)	Julien Boutter	6-4, 6-7(7), 6-4
2.	13 January 2002	Sydney, Australia	Hard	Juan Ignacio Chela	6-3, 6-3
3.	19 May 2002	Hamburg, Germany	Clay	Marat Safin	6-1, 6-3, 6-4
4.	13 October 2002	Vienna, Austria	Hard (i)	Jiří Novák	6-4, 6-1, 3-6, 6-4
5.	16 February 2003	Marseille, France	Hard (i)	Jonas Björkman	6-2, 7-6(6)
6.	2 March 2003	Dubai, UAE	Hard	Jiří Novák	6-1, 7-6(2)
7.	4 May 2003	Munich, Germany	Clay	Jarkko Nieminen	6-1, 6-4
8.	15 June 2003	Halle, Germany	Grass	Nicolas Kiefer	6-1, 6-3
9.	6 July 2003	Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom	Grass	Mark Philippoussis	7-6(5), 6-2, 7-6(3)
10.	12 October 2003	Vienna, Austria	Hard (i)	Carlos Moyà	6-3, 6-3, 6-3
11.	16 November 2003	Tennis Masters Cup, Houston, USA	Hard	Andre Agassi	6-3, 6-0, 6-4
12.	1 February 2004	Australian Open, Melbourne, Australia	Hard	Marat Safin	7-6(3), 6-4, 6-2
13.	7 March 2004	Dubai, UAE	Hard	Feliciano López	4-6, 6-1, 6-2
14.	21 March 2004	Indian Wells, USA	Hard	Tim Henman	6-3, 6-3
15.	16 May 2004	Hamburg, Germany	Clay	Guillermo Coria	4-6, 6-4, 6-2, 6-3
16.	13 June 2004	Halle, Germany	Grass	Mardy Fish	6-0, 6-3
17.	5 July 2004	Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom	Grass	Andy Roddick	4-6, 7-5, 7-6(3), 6-4
18.	11 July 2004	Gstaad, Switzerland	Clay	Igor Andreev	6-2, 6-3, 5-7, 6-3
19.	1 August 2004	Toronto, Canada	Hard	Andy Roddick	7-5, 6-3
20.	12 September 2004	U.S. Open, New York, USA	Hard	Lleyton Hewitt	6-0, 7-6(3), 6-0
21.	3 October 2004	Bangkok, Thailand	Hard (i)	Andy Roddick	6-4, 6-0
22.	21 November 2004	Tennis Masters Cup, Houston, USA	Hard	Lleyton Hewitt	6-3, 6-2
23.	9 January 2005	Doha, Qatar	Hard	Ivan Ljubičić	6-3, 6-1
24.	20 February 2005	Rotterdam, Netherlands	Hard (i)	Ivan Ljubičić	5-7, 7-5, 7-6(5)
25.	27 February 2005	Dubai, UAE	Hard	Ivan Ljubičić	6-1, 6-7(6), 6-3
26.	20 March 2005	Indian Wells, USA	Hard	Lleyton Hewitt	6-2, 6-4, 6-4
27.	3 April 2005	Miami, USA	Hard	Rafael Nadal	2-6, 6-7(4), 7-6(5), 6-3, 6-1
28.	15 May 2005	Hamburg, Germany	Clay	Richard Gasquet	6-3, 7-5, 7-6(4)
29.	13 June 2005	Halle, Germany	Grass	Marat Safin	6-4, 6-7(6), 6-4
30.	3 July 2005	Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom	Grass	Andy Roddick	6-2, 7-6(2), 6-4
31.	21 August 2005	Cincinnati, USA	Hard	Andy Roddick	6-3, 7-5
32.	11 September 2005	U.S. Open, New York, USA	Hard	Andre Agassi	6-3, 2-6, 7-6(1), 6-1
33.	2 October 2005	Bangkok, Thailand	Hard (i)	Andy Murray	6-3, 7-5
34.	8 January 2006	Doha, Qatar	Hard	Gaël Monfils	6-3, 7-6(5)
35.	29 January 2006	Australian Open, Melbourne, Australia	Hard	Marcos Baghdatis	5-7, 7-5, 6-0, 6-2
36.	19 March 2006	Indian Wells, USA	Hard	James Blake	7-5, 6-3, 6-0
37.	2 April 2006	Miami, USA	Hard	Ivan Ljubičić	7-6(5), 7-6(4), 7-6(6)
38.	18 June 2006	Halle, Germany	Grass	Tomáš Berdych	6-0, 6-7(4), 6-2
39.	9 July 2006	Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom	Grass	Rafael Nadal	6-0, 7-6(5), 6-7(2), 6-3
40.	13 August 2006	Toronto, Canada	Hard	Richard Gasquet	2-6, 6-3, 6-2
41.	10 September 2006	U.S. Open, New York, USA	Hard	Andy Roddick	6-2, 4-6, 7-5, 6-1
42.	8 October 2006	Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Tim Henman	6-3, 6-3
43.	22 October 2006	Madrid, Spain	Hard (i)	Fernando González	7-5, 6-1, 6-0
44.	29 October 2006	Basel, Switzerland	Carpet (i)	Fernando González	6-3, 6-2, 7-6(3)
45.	19 November 2006	Tennis Masters Cup, Shanghai, China	Hard (i)	James Blake	6-0, 6-3, 6-4

[edit] Singles finalist (13)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	13 February 2000	Marseille, France	Carpet (i)	Marc Rosset	2-6, 6-3, 7-6(5)
2.	29 October 2000	Basel, Switzerland	Carpet (i)	Thomas Enqvist	6-2, 4-6, 7-6(4), 1-6, 6-1
3.	25 February 2001	Rotterdam, Netherlands	Hard (i)	Nicolas Escudé	7-5, 3-6, 7-6(5)
4.	28 October 2001	Basel, Switzerland	Carpet (i)	Tim Henman	6-3, 6-4, 6-2
5.	3 February 2002	Milan, Italy	Carpet (i)	Davide Sanguinetti	7-6(2), 4-6, 6-1
6.	31 March 2002	Miami, USA	Hard	Andre Agassi	6-3, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4
7.	11 May 2003	Rome, Italy	Clay	Félix Mantilla	7-5, 6-2, 7-6(10)
8.	13 July 2003	Gstaad, Switzerland	Clay	Jiří Novák	5-7, 6-3, 6-3, 1-6, 6-3
9.	20 November 2005	Tennis Masters Cup, Shanghai, China	Carpet (i)	David Nalbandian	6-7(4), 6-7(11), 6-2, 6-1, 7-6(3)
10.	5 March 2006	Dubai, UAE	Hard	Rafael Nadal	2-6, 6-4, 6-4
11.	23 April 2006	Monte Carlo, Monaco	Clay	Rafael Nadal	6-2, 6-7(2), 6-3, 7-6(5)
12.	14 May 2006	Rome, Italy	Clay	Rafael Nadal	6-7(0), 7-6(5), 6-4, 2-6, 7-6(5)
13.	11 June 2006	French Open, Paris, France	Clay	Rafael Nadal	1-6, 6-1, 6-4, 7-6(4)

[edit] Doubles (7)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	25 February 2001	Rotterdam, Netherlands	Hard (i)	Jonas Björkman	Petr Pála Pavel Vízner	6-3, 6-0
2.	15 July 2001	Gstaad, Switzerland	Clay	Marat Safin	Michael Hill Jeff Tarango	0-1 Retired
3.	24 February 2002	Rotterdam, Netherlands	Hard (i)	Max Mirnyi	Mark Knowles Daniel Nestor	4-6, 6-3, 10-4
4.	6 October 2002	Moscow, Russia	Carpet (i)	Max Mirnyi	Joshua Eagle Sandon Stolle	6-4, 7-6(0)
5.	30 March 2003	Miami, USA	Hard	Max Mirnyi	Leander Paes David Rikl	7-5, 6-3
6.	12 October 2003	Vienna, Austria	Hard (i)	Yves Allegro	Mahesh Bhupathi Max Mirnyi	7-6(7), 7-5
7.	12 June 2005	Halle, Germany	Grass	Yves Allegro	Joachim Johansson Marat Safin	7-5, 6-7(6), 6-3

[edit] Doubles finalist (4)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	29 October 2000	Basel, Switzerland	Carpet (i)	Dominik Hrbatý	Donald Johnson Piet Norval	7-6(11), 4-6, 7-6(4)
2.	17 March 2002	Indian Wells, USA	Hard	Max Mirnyi	Mark Knowles Daniel Nestor	6-4, 6-4
3.	23 February 2003	Rotterdam, Netherlands	Hard (i)	Max Mirnyi	Wayne Arthurs Paul Hanley	7-6(4), 6-2
4.	3 October 2004	Bangkok, Thailand	Hard (i)	Yves Allegro	Justin Gimelstob Oliver Graydon	5-7, 6-4, 6-4

Team competition

• 2001 Hopman Cup (w/ Martina Hingis)

[edit] Performance timeline

To prevent confusion and double counting, information in this table is updated only after a tournament or the player's participation in the tournament has concluded. Davis Cup matches are included in the statistics. This table is current through the Tennis Masters Cup, which concluded on November 19, 2006.

A = did not participate in the tournament.

SR = the ratio of the number of singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played.

¹The win total does not include walkovers.

[edit] ATP Tour career earnings

*As of November 20, 2006.

[edit] Trivia

• Answering a frequently asked question about the proper pronunciation of his first name, Federer said: "As my mother comes from South Africa, my name has always been pronounced the English way."^[23]
• Roger carries a "Tweety" dressed as a ladybird for good luck.
• In Spanish speaking countries media he is sometimes referred to as "El reloj suizo" ("The Swiss watch").^[24][25]
• Favorite vacation spots are Maldives, Dubai, and the Swiss mountains.
• Plays the piano.
• Likes classic rock and classical music.
• In an interview with Eurosport during the 2006 US Open, he said that he grew up with dance music and first started to like rock music while travelling with his former coach Peter Lundgren.
• Shows interest in football and cricket. Supports FC Basel, his hometown club ^[26], as well as A.S. Roma. ^{[citation needed]}
• As a boy, Roger was very emotional on the court and threw many tantrums, in contrast to his cool, calm playing style he has today. He admits to being kicked off the practice courts very often.
• An image of Roger at Wimbledon was on the cover of The ITF Year 2005.^[27]
• Plays squash and table tennis. ^{[citation needed]}
• When he was younger, he liked to watch Marcelo Ríos in action. ^{[citation needed]}

[edit] See also

• List of Grand Slam Men's Singles champions
• Australian Open champions (Men's Singles)
• Wimbledon champions (Men's Singles)
• US Open champions (Men's Singles)
• Tennis Masters Cup
• Tennis Masters Series
• ATP season 2005
• ATP season 2006

[edit] References

• Ask Roger. [1]
• "Federer plays down chances". New Straits Times November 11, 2005, p. 42.
• "The Role Model". Smash September 6, 2006, pg 45.

[edit] External links

• Roger Federer.com - Official Site
• Roger Federer Foundation
• RF Cosmetics - Roger Federer's Cosmetic-Line
• ATP profile for Roger Federer
• ITF Junior profile for Roger Federer
• Roger Federer at the Internet Movie Database
• Profile on tenniscorner.net
• Roger's profile at Tennis X
• Roger Federer fan-blog
• De Roger Federer Fansite
• Go Roger - Fansite
• 'Roger Federer's Tennis Open' (Mobile Phone Game)
• Roger Federer and Mental Toughness
• Federer as Religious Experience -- The New York Times
• The Tennis Channel: Facing Federer