Roger Federer, (born August 8, 1981, Basel, Switzerland), Swiss tennis player, who dominated the sport in the early 21st century with his exceptional all-around game. His total of 20 career men’s singles Grand Slam championships is the most in tennis history.
Federer, who began enjoying tennis at age eight, turned Switzerland’s junior champion when he was 14. In 1998 he captured the Wimbledon junior singles championship and secured the Orange Bowl junior event crown in Miami. The following yr Federer made his debut on the Swiss Davis Cup workforce and have become the youngest tennis participant (at 18 years 4 months) to finish the yr among the many world’s high 100, ending that season at quantity 64.
Federer competed on the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, advancing to the bronze medal match. The following yr at Wimbledon he defeated Pete Sampras to succeed in the quarterfinals, and by the top of 2002 he was ranked quantity six on this planet. In 2003 Federer gained his first Grand Slam event title, at Wimbledon. The following yr he captured his first Australian Open and his first U.S. Open and defended his Wimbledon title. A gifted shot maker, he was victorious in 11 of the 17 tournaments he performed in 2004 and completed the yr ranked primary on this planet. In 2005 Federer’s numbers have been equally outstanding, as he gained 11 of 15 tournaments, together with Wimbledon and the U.S. Open. From July 2003 to November 2005 he additionally gained a modern-record 24 straight finals.
In 2006 Federer continued to be the sport’s finest participant. In addition to successful Wimbledon, he was victorious on the Australian Open and the U.S. Open, turning into the primary participant to win the latter two tournaments three years in a row. He additionally reached the finals at Roland Garros (the French Open) however was defeated by Rafael Nadal of Spain. In all, Federer competed in 17 tournaments in 2006, capturing 12 titles and reaching the finals in all however one event. At the Australian Open in 2007, he gained his tenth Grand Slam title. Later that yr, nevertheless, his bid for his first French Open was once more derailed by Nadal, who defeated him within the finals. Federer’s rivalry with Nadal continued at Wimbledon in 2007. There he bested Nadal in an exhilarating five-set last to change into solely the second male participant (after Björn Borg) in additional than 100 years to seize 5 consecutive Wimbledon titles. Federer continued to make historical past in 2007 when he gained his fourth consecutive U.S. Open, a males’s document within the open period.
In 2008 Federer’s document 65-match grass-court successful streak got here to an finish when he misplaced to Nadal within the Wimbledon last. Federer later teamed with Switzerland’s Stan Wawrinka to win the lads’s doubles gold medal on the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Federer misplaced his primary world rating to Nadal in August 2008, ending his document run of 237 consecutive weeks atop the rankings. The following month Federer gained the U.S. Open.
In June 2009 Federer gained his first French Open, giving him a championship in every of the 4 Grand Slam tournaments over the course of his profession. Additionally, the win was his 14th Grand Slam title, which tied Federer with Sampras for probably the most in all time. The following month at Wimbledon, Federer defeated American Andy Roddick in an exhilarating marathon five-set match (5–7, 7–6, 7–6, 3–6, 16–14) to win his sixth Wimbledon championship and his document fifteenth profession Grand Slam title; he subsequently regained the world primary rating. In January 2010 he gained the Australian Open, defeating Andy Murray of Great Britain. Federer once more defeated Murray in 2012 to win his record-tying seventh profession Wimbledon title. A month later the 2 males confronted off within the gold medal match on the London Olympics. This time, nevertheless, Federer misplaced to Murray and needed to accept a silver medal.
Federer endured an injury-riddled 2013 season, and in 2014 he reached only one Grand Slam last (a loss at Wimbledon to Novak Djokovic). He did nonetheless handle a profession spotlight that yr by main Switzerland to its first-ever Davis Cup victory. In 2015 he appeared within the Wimbledon and U.S. Open finals however misplaced to Djokovic each occasions. Shortly after shedding within the Wimbledon semifinals in July 2016, he withdrew from the rest of that tennis season due to a persistent knee damage.
He entered the primary Grand Slam event of 2017, the Australian Open, because the Seventeenth-ranked males’s participant however shocked the tennis world by successful the singles title in an epic five-set last towards Nadal. Federer continued his resurgent play at that yr’s Wimbledon, the place he didn't lose a single set in the course of the event and gained a record-breaking eighth Wimbledon title. Federer’s scorching streak continued into 2018 when he gained his sixth profession Australian Open singles title, however he did not win one other main that yr. He reached the semifinals on the 2019 French Open and superior to the finals at that yr’s Wimbledon, the place he misplaced an epic four-hour 57-minute last (the longest in Wimbledon historical past) to Djokovic.