About
About Roger Federer
Player Profile
Born: August 08, 1981 in Basel Switzerland
Current Age: 30 years
Residence: Bottmingen, Switzerland
Current World Ranking: No. 2
Plays: Right-handed (with a single-handed backhand)
Turned Pro: 1998
Height: 6’1” (186cm)
Weight: 187lbs (85kg)
Career Prize money (to date): US$70,332,321
Career titles: 74
Grand Slam Major Titles: 16
- Australian Open: 2004, 2006, 2007, 2010.
- French Open: 2009
- Wimbledon: 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009.
- US Open: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008.
Player Bio:
Roger Federer was born in Basel, Switzerland (technically he was born in Binningen, a municipality in the district of Arlesheim in the canton of Basel) on the 8th of August 1981, to his South African born mother Lynette Durand and his Swiss born father Robert Federer. Roger Federer grew up in Müchenstein, a suburban municipality near Basel, stationed close to the German and French borders of Switzerland, where he learned to speak Swiss German, English, French and German.
Federer begun playing Tennis at the age of eight. As a Junior Player, Federer won the boys singles title at Wimbledon in 1998 and ended the year as the Junior World No. 1 - from there, Federer became a Professional Tennis Player.
In 2003, Federer’s dream came true as he lifted the Wimbledon trophy for the first time. He ended the year as World Number 2, and it was then that his career first completely took off. In February 2004 after winning the Australian Open Roger Federer surpassed Andy Roddick and became World Number 1 for the first time in his career. Since then, Roger Federer has won all 4 grand slams, and has a total of 16 grand slam titles to date. Federer has held the World Number 1 ranking for a total 285 weeks, 1 week short of Pete Sampras’ record 286 weeks at World Number 1.
Federer currently holds more records and awards then any other player on the ATP World Tour, they can all be viewed here, and he is commonly referred to as the “greatest player of all time” because of all he has achieved as a Tennis Professional.
In 2003 Roger established the Roger Federer foundation to support disadvantaged people all over the world. On the 11th of April 2009, Roger Federer married Mirka Vavrinec in Basel, after the two had been together for over 9 years. On the 23rd of July 2009 Mirka gave birth to two twin girls, Myla Rose and Charlene Riva.
About the Blog
Hello, this is a Roger Federer appreciation blog, which was created on the 21st of May 2011. It is run couturefacade, you can find my Twitter here. I aim to keep you updated with all Roger Federer news on this blog. I also accept submissions about/to do with Roger Federer.
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