Roger Federer is a Swiss professional tennis player. He is ranked No. 5 in the world by the Association of Tennis Professionals. Federer has won 103 ATP singles titles, the second-most all-time behind Jimmy Connors. He has won 20 Grand Slam men’s singles titles.
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Roger Federer is a Swiss professional tennis player. He is ranked No. 5 in the world by the Association of Tennis Professionals. Federer has won 103 ATP singles titles, the second-most all-time behind Jimmy Connors. He has won 20 Grand Slam men’s singles titles. He was born in Basel, Switzerland, and grew up in Birsfelden, Riehen, and München, close to the French and German borders. He served in the Swiss Armed Forces from 1993 to 2003. He married former tennis player Mirjana Lucic-Baroni in 2006. He currently lives in Switzerland with his wife and two children, and has a son and daughter with his ex-wife, Maria, and a daughter with her ex-husband, Rafael Nadal. He also has a silver medal in singles from the 2012 London Olympics, where he finished runner-up to Andy Murray. He won the Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship Award 13 times, and the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year award a record five times. He established the Roger Federer Foundation, which targets impoverished children in southern Africa, and raises funds in part through the Match for Africa exhibition series. He became the oldest ATP world No. 1 in 2018 at age 36. He grew up supporting FC Basel and the Swiss national football team and played a wide range of sports as a child, including badminton and basketball. In 2003, Federer was ruled out of compulsory military service and was not required to pay 3% of his taxable income as an alternative to force and force protection and protection force and protection.
He now lives in Geneva with his family and works as a tennis coach and coach at the Swiss Tennis Academy. He and his wife have a son, Luka, who is a junior tennis player at the University of California, Los Angeles and a senior tennis coach at Stanford University. The couple have a daughter, Mirrile, who was born on July 25, 2011. He had a son in 2013. He lives with his mother, Lynette Federer, in Kempton Park, Gauteng, in South Africa, where his father is a former South African tennis player and his mother is a South African-born Swiss tennis coach. In 2013, he moved to Switzerland to be closer to his sister, Diana, who has a set of twins. In 2014, he 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. In 2016, 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. In 2009, he surpassed Pete Sampras’s then-record of 14 Grand Slam titles at Wimbledon in 2009. In 2010, he completed the career Grand Slam at the 2009 French Open after three previous runner-ups to Nadal, his only main rival.
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