Roger Federer
✓ Source-basedrisingSwiss tennis player (born 1981)
also South Africa
in SwitzerlandTwenty Grand Slams, 310 weeks at world No. 1, and a career that bent around two words: effortless grace.
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Federer in 1998, the first year he joined the ATP Tour
Federer at the 2002 US Open
Federer hits a forehand at the 2006 US Open, where he became the first man in history to achieve the Wimbledon-US Open double for three consecutive seasons.
Federer was called "Darth Federer" by fans and commentators at the 2007 US Open.
Federer winning the 2009 French Open, and completing the career Grand Slam
Federer won a record 16th major at the 2010 Australian Open.
Federer won a record 17th major, a record-equaling 7th Wimbledon, and returned to No. 1In their own words 10
Maybe, hopefully, one day you can tell me how it feels to win Montreal.
Runner-up speech to Alexander Zverev after his 2017 Montreal Masters 1000 defeat; Federer had won the Canadian Open in Toronto but never in
You gotta be careful about how you phrase that. You don't want to be rude to the other players, because you gotta face them; I don't have to face them.
Press conference at the 2016 Australian Open after semi-final loss to Novak Djokovic, after reporter's suggestion that the victor's
We need a clown for this circus.
Describing a frequently miscalled match against Nick Kyrgios during changeover at the 2015 Mutua Madrid Open.
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About this person
Born in Switzerland in 1981, Federer was a Wimbledon ball boy before winning the junior title there in 1998 - a kid who lacked self-control until he learned to channel it. His first major came at Wimbledon in 2003 at 21, and for the next six years he was untouchable, playing in 20 of 24 major finals and winning three of the four slams multiple times over. The French Open eluded him until 2009, when he finally beat Nadal's clay kingdom and passed Sampras with his 15th major in the same summer. A knee injury and a half-year break in 2016 looked like the beginning of the end, but he came back at 35 to win three more majors, including a record eighth Wimbledon and his 20th slam in Melbourne at 36. He retired in September 2022 at the Laver Cup, by then a billionaire whose foundation had funneled millions to children in southern Africa and whose minority stake in a Swiss shoe brand had made him richer off the court than on it.
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