When Was Roger Federer Born? posted by Tennis Fan
Born August 8, 1981, in Switzerland, Roger Federer is known to be the greatest tennis player of all time. Since October 2002, he has been consistently maintaining his ATP (Association of Tennis Professionals) rank in the top ten. Federer has held the number one position in the world for overall 302 weeks, which includes a consecutive stretch of 237 weeks from 2004 to 2008. During this time, he has reached every Grand Slam Final event five times minimum, which is a record in itself. During the Open Era, Federer has won 17 Grand Slam titles in the singles events, and shares the record for most titles at Wimbledon, U.S. Open, and Australian Open with other players.
Roger Federer grew up playing football, basketball, and badminton, apart from tennis. In 1998, he won his first junior player titles at Wimbledon for the singles and doubles events. He also went on to win the Orange Bowl, and ended the year with number one world junior ranking. Federer also started his professional career in the same year, where he lost to Lucas Ker. He reached his first finals in 2000 at the Marseille Open, but lost to March Rosset. Federer had his first victory in 2001 at the Hopman Cup, where he partnered with Martina Hingis in the doubles match. His first single's win was also in the same year when he defeated Julien Boutter in the Milan Indoor tournament.
Federer won his first Grand Slam singles title in 2003 at Wimbledon when he defeated Mark Philippoussis in the finals. In 2004, he won three singles Grand slam titles during the season, and equaled this record set in 1988 by Mats Wilander. He became world no.1 for the first time in 2004, when he beat Marat Safin in the Australian Open final. Roger Federer still manages to reach the semi-finals and the finals in many ATP tournaments, and recently won the 2014 Shanghai Open.Continue reading "When Was Roger Federer Born?"