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About Roger Federer is the best tennis player of all time!

I am a total tennis and
especially Roger Federer fan.
Roger is the best tennis player ever.

Federer has won twelve Grand Slam singles titles (three Australian Open, five Wimbledon, five US Open), four Tennis Masters Cup titles, and fourteen ATP Masters Series titles. Federer holds many records in the game, including having appeared in ten consecutive Grand Slam men's singles finals (2005 Wimbledon Championships through the 2007 US Open) and 17 consecutive Grand Slam singles semifinals (2004 Wimbledon - present). He also holds the open era records for consecutive wins on both grass courts (65) and hard courts (56).

Besides Roger is ranked World No. 1 for a record 233 consecutive weeks.

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Jul 19, 2008

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Roger´s personal life

Federer was born in Basel, to Swiss-German Robert Federer and South African Lynette Federer (née Durand). He grew up in suburban Münchenstein, ten minutes from Basel and close to the borders of France and Germany. Federer considers Swiss German his first language. He also speaks German, French and English fluently[ and conducts press conferences in all four. He is Roman Catholic and met Pope Benedict XVI while playing the 2006 Internazionali BNL d'Italia tournament in Rome.

In addition to tennis, he also played football as a boy and considered becoming a professional footballer before deciding to pursue a career in tennis. As a youngster, he enjoyed watching Marcelo Ríos in action. He especially liked Boris Becker, Stefan Edberg and Marcelo Ríos and has cited them as idols.
Federer is highly involved in various charities. He established the Roger Federer Foundation in 2003 to help disadvantaged people and to promote sports to youth. He was appointed a Goodwill Ambassador of UNICEF from 2006. Since then, he has visited South Africa and Tamil Nadu, one of the worst tsunami-affected areas in India. He has also appeared in UNICEF public messages to raise public awareness of AIDS.

In 2007, Federer was photographed by Annie Leibowitz as King Arthur. This was part of a series of photographs taken by her of many different celebrities for Disney's Year of a Million Dreams project.

Federer has been dating former Women's Tennis Association player Miroslava "Mirka" Vavrinec since the 2000 Sydney Olympics, where they met while both representing Switzerland in the tennis competition. Vavrinec retired from the tour in 2002 because of a persistent foot injury and has since been working as Federer's public relations manager. Federer and Vavrinec announced on March 12, 2009, that they are expecting their first child in the summer of 2009.

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Hometown

Basel

Country

Switzerland

Interests

Tennis - I think that is obvious!, Jogging,
Soccer and Ski Jumping.