Double junior championship won Wimbledon in 1998In singles and doubles, this Thursday marked the start of the professional career of Swiss Roger Federer, who announced his retirement after 24 years after winning 103 singles titles, 20 of them in tournaments. Grand Slam.
Federer was considered one of the best athletes in history, He was born on 8 August 1981 in Basel. Therefore, he will say goodbye at the age of 41.
He started playing tennis at the age of 8but it wasn’t until the age of 14 when he decided to take it seriously.
In 1998, when he made his professional debut, He doubled at Junior Wimbledon, won the Orange Bowl, and was a finalist. US Open youth. The following year he made his debut at two majors, Roland Garros and Wimbledon, and was an Olympic bronze medalist at Davis and the Sydney Games in 2000.
first title ATP It was in Milan on February 4, 2001, which put him in eighth place in the race of champions. He reached the quarterfinals at Roland Garros and Wimbledon that year.
After adding three titles in 2002, In the early months of the following year, he conquered four before winning his first Grand Slam on July 6, 2003.: Defeated Australian Mark Philippoussis in the Wimbledon final. His two titles for the rest of the year cemented him as No. 2 in the ATP.
his victory Australian Open from 2004 This position, which he maintained uninterruptedly until August 2008, took him to the top of the world rankings at the beginning of February. He also reaffirmed Wimbledon that year and won his first US Open. After the Olympic failure in Athens, he closed the season with 11 titles.
His only Roland Garros
In the years that completed this first reign He participated in a total of 35 tournaments, including Switzerland, Australia (2006 and 2007), Wimbledon (2005, 2006 and 2007), USA (2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008) and ten Masters 1000. He didn’t quite make it through the grands of 2006 and 2007, when Rafa Nadal beat him in the final in Paris. His best years were 2005 and 2006, when he won 11 championships in the first and 12 in the second.
Nadal deposed him in August 2008. At that time, there could only be gold in doubles at the Beijing Olympics.
won s in 2009Roland Garros is the only person to beat Sweden’s Robin Soderling in the final and Wimbledon against American Andy Roddick. This was his fifteenth Grand Slam, one more than Pete Sampras. However, the USA lost the final against Argentina’s Juan Martin del Potro.
His second term as number 1 in world tennis lasted from August 2009, when Nadal won him back, to May of the following year. It even dropped to number three. His greatest achievement at the time was winning his fourth tournament in Australia. two London ATP Masters Finals (2010 and 2011) and being a finalist again in Paris against the Spaniard.
He partially saved his game in 2012, When he added 6 championships, including Wimbledon and three Masters 1000s, this was a top spot in the ATP rankings between July and October of that year, while in London he hung Olympic silver and was a finalist at the London Masters Cup.
Worst harvest of his sports career
2013 was the worst harvest of the last decade: He just won the German tournament in Halle and fell to seventh place in the ATP.
He made a few changes in 2014, used a racquet with a 22 centimeters more frame and opened up Stefan Edberg’s direction. Despite He fell to 8th place in the first stages, gradually the results accompanied him and he finished in second place.
This comeback included two Masters 1000s and five titles, including the semi-finals in Australia or the USA, and the Wimbledon final. Despite back problems, he won his only Davis Cup against France in November.
He improved his competition in 2015 with six titles, including the Cincinnati Masters 100. Serbian Djokovic defeated him at the Wimbledon finals, the US Open and the London Masters Cup.
In the first months of 2016, he had surgery for a torn meniscus in his left knee and added back problems, so at Wimbledon, He chose to cut the season short when his knee injury recurred.
fully healed came back in early 2017 and won seven tournaments that year, including the best. Australia and Wimbledon and three Masters 1000, returned to second place in the ranking.
The following year, sec.played four tournamentsHe was a finalist at 1000 Indian Wells, including Australia, and was temporarily replaced at #1 by Nadal until June 18 (a total of 310 weeks at the top).
In 2019, with four titles, Miami’s top 1000, Four years later he returned to Paris to be a semi-finalist against Nadal. Djokovic defeated him in the Wimbledon final.
Australia was a semi-finalist in 2020 and set the world record in 51,954 games against Nadal on 7 February. Spectators at a charity event in Cape Town.
Right knee operation
on the 19th of February He had surgery on his right knee. Added to this are pauses in the competition due to the coronavirus, when he returned to the operating room in June and chose to end the season.
Delay His return to the slopes is in Doha until March 8, 2021.
41-year-old Swiss tennis player announced its withdrawal on Thursday, 2022, more than once without competition due to injuries.
to his record we should add four Shanghai Masters Cups (2003, 2004, 2006 and 2007) followed by the ATP World Tour Finals in London (2010 and 2011).
The ITF declared him the best player of recent years 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2009 and received five Laureus (2005 – 2008 and 2018).
He is married to former tennis player Miroslava (Mirka) Vavrinec and they have four children.