Roger Federer

Roger Federer was born on 8th August 1981 in Basel, Switzerland, to a Swiss father and a South African mother. He has one older sister, Diane. 

As a teenager Federer appeared on the Junior ITF Tour, winning four titles as well as winning the 1998 Wimbledon boys event. He finished 1998 as the number one ranked junior in the world, having also made his first appearance as a professional earlier that year at the Swiss Open.

Federer made his first appearance in a Grand Slam at the 1999 French Open, reaching his first tour final at the Marseille Open in 2000, and taking his first singles victory at the Milan Indoor Tournament in 2001. Federer's understated entry onto the professional scene gave few clues as to the success that was to come, but over the next few years he continued to develop and was soon at the very top of the game.

Federer beat Mark Philippoussis to win his first Grand Slam at Wimbledon in 2003; his previous best Grand Slam results had been quarter-final appearances at Wimbledon and the French Open two years prior.  

Federer rose to world number one after winning his second Grand Slam at the Australian Open in 2004 and he would go on to hold that ranking for a record 237 consecutive weeks before being deposed by Rafael Nadal in 2008. Between 2004 and 2007, Federer won 11 of the 16 Grand Slam tournaments and reached finals on a further two occasions.

After 2007, Federer found increased competition from a new breed of men's stars including Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray, but he remained at the top of the game and continued to set records. Federer completed the career Grand Slam by winning the French Open in 2009 and he holds the record for reaching the most consecutive Grand Slam singles finals (10, between 2005 and 2007). Perhaps most importantly, in 2009 Federer won his 15th Grand Slam title at Wimbledon, overtaking Pete Sampras's record of 14 wins and giving him the most men's singles Grand Slam titles of any player in the history of the game. 

Roger Federer is arguably the greatest all-round tennis player who has ever played the game. His style is adaptable to all surfaces and he focuses on speed, footwork, and accuracy, rather than out and out power. Federer set a new benchmark for men's tennis in the mid 2000s and, at his best, was virtually unstoppable. 

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