Roger Federer

Federer serving at 2009 Wimbledon

Country (sports   Switzerland

Residence Bottmingen, Switzerland

Born 8 August 1981 (age 39)

Basel, Switzerland

Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)[1]

Turned pro 1998

Plays Right-handed (one-handed backhand)

Prize money $129,946,683

  2nd all-time leader in earnings

Official website rogerfederer.com

Singles

Career record 1242–271 (82.1%)[a]

Career titles 103 (2nd in the Open Era)

Highest rankin No. 1 (2 February 2004)

Current ranking No. 5 (9 November 2020)[2]

Grand Slam Singles results

Australian Ope W (2004, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2017, 2018)

French Open W (2009)

Wimbledon W (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012, 2

017)

US Open W (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008)

Other tournaments

Tour Finals W (2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011)

Olympic Game F (2012)

Doubles

Career record 131–92 (58.7%)[b]

Career titles 8

Highest rankin No. 24 (9 June 2003)

Grand Slam Doubles results

 Australian Ope 3R (2003)

French Open 1R (2000)

Wimbledon QF (2000)

US Open 3R (2002)

Other doubles tournaments

Olympic Game W (2008)

Team competitions

Davis Cup W (2014)

Hopman Cup W (2001, 2018, 2019)

Signature

Olympic medal record[hide]

2008 Beijing Doubles

2012 London Singles

Last updated on: 9 November 2020.

Roger Federer (German pronunciation: [ˈrɔdʒər ˈfeːdərər]; born 8 August 1981) is a Swiss

professional tennis player. He is ranked No. 5 in the world by the Association of Tennis
Professionals (ATP). He has won 20 Grand Slam men's singles titles, an all-time record shared
with Rafael Nadal. Federer has been No. 1 in the ATP rankings a record total of 310 weeks –
including a record 237 consecutive weeks – and has finished as the year-end No. 1 five times.
Federer has won 103 ATP singles titles, the second-most all-time behind Jimmy Connors and
including a record six ATP Finals.
Federer has played in an era where he dominated men's tennis together with Nadal and Novak
Djokovic, who have been collectively referred to as the Big Three in reference to their place as
three of the greatest male tennis players of all-time. [c] A Wimbledon junior champion in 1998,
Federer won his first Grand Slam singles title at Wimbledon in 2003 at age 21. In 2004, he
established himself as the best player in men's tennis by winning three out of four major singles
titles and the ATP Finals,[d] a feat he repeated in both 2006 and 2007. Over a stretch from 2005
to 2010, Federer made 18 out of 19 major singles finals. During this span, he won his fifth
consecutive titles at both Wimbledon and the US Open. He completed the career Grand Slam at
the 2009 French Open after three previous runner-ups to Nadal, his main rival up until 2010. At
age 27, he also surpassed Pete Sampras's then-record of 14 Grand Slam men's singles titles at
Wimbledon in 2009.
Although Federer remained in the top 3 through most of the 2010s, the success of Djokovic and
Nadal in particular ended his dominance over grassand hard courts. From mid-2010, he only won
one major title through the end of 2016. During this period, Federer and Stan Wawrinka led
the Switzerland Davis Cup team to their first title in 2014, adding to the gold medal they won
together in doubles at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Federer also has a silver medal in singles from
the 2012 London Olympics, where he finished runner-up to Andy Murray. After taking half a year
off in late 2016 to recover from back surgery, Federer had a renaissance at the majors. He won
three more Grand Slam singles titles over the next two years, including the 2017 Australian
Open over Nadal and a men's singles record eighth Wimbledon title in 2017 later that year. He
also became the oldest ATP world No. 1 in 2018 at age 36.
A versatile all-court player, Federer's perceived effortlessness has made him highly popular
among tennis fans. Originally lacking self-control as a junior, Federer transformed his on-court
demeanor to become well-liked for his general graciousness, winning the Stefan Edberg
Sportsmanship Award 13 times. He has also won the Laureus World Sportsman of the
Year award a record five times. Outside of competing, he played an instrumental role in the
creation of the Laver Cup team competition. Federer is also an active philanthropist. He
established the Roger Federer Foundation, which targets impoverished children in southern
Africa, and has raised funds in part through the Match for Africa exhibition series. Federer is
routinely one of the highest-paid athletes in any sport, and ranked first among all athletes with
$100 million in endorsement income in 2020.