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After some initial struggles, Federer won his first adult tournament in Milan in February 2001. Includes Eleanor Roosevelt, Mother Teresa and Emil Zatopek.
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Famous Swiss. Federer's brand value has also soared, making him one of the most marketable athletes in the world.
Despite facing some setbacks and injuries, Federer remains motivated and continues to enjoy his career in tennis.
Although he played several sports, he began received coaching from the age of ten from Adolf Kacovsky. Not only did the loss end Federer's record streak of 36 consecutive quarterfinals at Grand Slam tournaments,[144] it meant he would drop out of the top 4 for the first time since July 2003.[145]
During the summer, he experimented with various different racquets and played the German Open with a blacked-out 98-inch Wilson racquet, instead of his regular Pro Staff 6.1 90 BLX racquet with the smaller 90-inch hitting area.
He aims to set new goals and challenges for himself. Rumors circulated that he might retire, but he returned to the court after a few months. Swiss German is his native language.[4][10][11][12] He was a ball boy at his hometown Basel event, the Swiss Indoors in 1992 and 1993.[10][13]
Like all male Swiss citizens, Federer was subject to compulsory military service in the Swiss Armed Forces.
After Nadal's unexpected defeat to Robin Söderling, Federer became the overwhelming favorite. Federer said his death was very traumatic, but it provided a motivation to remember and implement his advice to be a better player, but also a better person and calmer when defeated.
In 2003, Federer confirmed his nascent talent by winning his first grand slam title at Wimbledon.
In the following years, Federer won eight tournaments, including one from the Masters series, but he failed to win a Grand Slam title.
However, in a rematch of the previous year's final, he lost in the final to Milos Raonic in straight sets.[185] Federer then participated at the 2016 Australian Open and rebounded from his third round defeat by Andreas Seppi in 2015 by reaching the semifinals but lost to eventual champion Novak Djokovic in four sets.[186] The day after his loss to Djokovic, Federer sustained a knee injury and in early February, he underwent arthroscopic surgery to repair a torn meniscus in his knee and missed the tournaments in Rotterdam, Dubai, and Indian Wells in February and March.
Federer entered Indian Wells as the three-time defending champion, but his streak ended in controversy. Federer won both his singles matches against Sam Querrey and Nick Kyrgios, with the latter win sealing the cup for Europe.[215] The tournament was also notable for Federer playing doubles teaming with longtime rival Nadal for the first time.
At the Australian Open, he beat top-10 players Tomáš Berdych and Kei Nishikori on his way to semifinals, making Federer the oldest man to compete in a grand slam semi-final since Jimmy Connors in 1991.[198] In the semi-finals, he defeated Stanislas Wawrinka in five sets, making him the oldest player to compete in a Grand Slam final since Ken Rosewall in 1974.[199][200] Coming back from a break down in the fifth set, Federer defeated Rafael Nadal to win the Australian Open, which also marked Federer's 100th match at the Australian Open; it was the first time Federer had won a match against Nadal in a Grand Slam event since the 2007 Wimbledon final, and also marked Federer's first ever Grand Slam victory over Nadal outside the grass courts of Wimbledon.
He also won a silver medal in the Olympics (losing to Andy Murray) and gold in the doubles.
In the past few years, Federer’s rate of career milestones has slowed down, but he continues to be one of the great tennis players of the era – despite also showing human limitations. On the penultimate point of the Djokovic match he hit what many consider to be the greatest shot of his career, a tweener winner, to set up match points.[103] Federer was defeated by del Potro in the final despite leading two sets to one and falling just two points from the title in the fourth set.[102]
The 2009 season was perhaps the most historically relevant of Federer's career as he completed a career Grand Slam by winning his first French Open title and won a men's record fifteenth Grand Slam singles title at Wimbledon, surpassing Pete Sampras's mark of fourteen.[102] The Wimbledon final was also historic for being the longest Grand Slam final in terms of games played with Federer prevailing 16–14 in the fifth set.[101]
Federer finished the season as the year-end No.
1 for the fifth time in his career.[104]
2010s
[edit]2010: Fourth Australian Open
[edit]Main article: 2010 Roger Federer tennis season
Federer started the year with a win at the Australian Open,[105] where he defeated Andy Murray in the final, extending the Grand Slam singles record to sixteen titles and matching Andre Agassi's record of four Australian Open titles.[85] Since Wimbledon 2005 Federer had made 18 out of 19 finals in Grand Slam tournaments, a period of sustained excellence unparalleled in the Open Era.
This tournament, however, marked the end of his dominance at the majors.[106]
At the French Open, Federer won his 700th tour match and 150th tour match on clay.[105][107] However, he failed to reach a Grand Slam semifinal for the first time since the 2004 French Open,[108] losing to Söderling in the last 8 and relinquishing his No.
1 ranking,[105] having been just one week away from equaling Pete Sampras's record of 286 weeks as world No. 1. His fiery temperament also hindered his progress as he often lost focus during matches.
However, an experienced coach, Peter Lundgren, came into Federer's life and helped him make the necessary changes to his game and behavior.
Later that year, he won his first ATP match in Toulouse against Guillaume Raoux.