Roger Federer announces his retirement in 2022 at the age of 41 Roger Federer's net worth Roger Federer (born August 8, 1981) is a Swiss professional tennis player. Ranked #1 in the world by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 310 weeks, including 237 consecutive weeks, and finished first at the end of the year five times.
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He has won 103 ATP singles titles, his second most ever, including 20 Grand Slam singles titles, eight Wimbledon singles titles, and five US Open men's singles titles, a record at the end of six years. tournaments.
Roger Federer announces his retirement in 2022 at the age of 41 Roger Federer's net worth
Federer played in an era when he dominated men's tennis alongside Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic as the Big Three, whom some consider collectively the three most successful tennis players of all time. 1998 Wimbledon Junior Champion Federer won his first central singles title at Wimbledon in 2003 at 21. Between 2003 and 2009, he made 21 out of 28 central singles finals.
During this period, he won three Grand Slams and ATP Finals in 2004, 2006, and 2007, as well as five consecutive titles at both Wimbledon and the US Open. He completed his Grand Slam career at the 2009 French Open after three consecutive runners-up to Nadal, his main rival until 2010. At the age of 27, he surpassed Pete Sampras' record with 14 men's singles titles at Wimbledon in 2009.
Roger Federer Personal life and family
Federer was born on August 8, 1981, in Basel, Switzerland. A member of the Federer family, his Swiss-German father, Robert Federer, is from Pernik in the canton of St Gallen, and his Afrikaans mother, Lynette Federer (née Durand), is from Kempton Park, Gauteng, in South Africa. He has one brother, an older sister, Diana, and a mother of twins.
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Since Federer's mother is from South Africa, he holds Swiss and South African citizenship. He grew up in the Rhein region near Biersfelden, then Münchenstein, near the French and German borders, and speaks Swiss German, Standard German, English, and French as well as Italian and Swedish. Swiss German is his mother tongue. He was a ball boy in his hometown of Basel, Switzerland at home, in 1992 and 1993.
Federer is married to former women's tennis player Miroslava Federer (née Vavrinec), whom he met while competing with Switzerland at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Usually called Mirka, she retired from the tour in 2002 due to a foot injury.
They married at Wenkenhof Villa in Riehen near Basel on April 11, 2009, surrounded by a small group of close friends and family. In 2009, she gave birth to identical twins. They had another pair of twins in 2014, this time as fraternal twins.
In his first match and Federer appeared for the first time
Federer played his junior match in 1996 at the age of 14 in the second division championship in Switzerland. His main achievements came as a junior player at Wimbledon in 1998, where he won the boys' singles final over Irakli Labadze, and in doubles he teamed with Olivier Rochus, defeating the team of Michael Laura and Andy Ram.
In addition, he reached the final of the US Junior Open in 1998, losing to David Nalbandian. Federer won four ITF junior singles tournaments in his career, including the prestigious Orange Bowl, where he defeated Guillermo Coria in the final.
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He finished 1998 as the world's first junior and won the ITF junior world title. He ended his junior career at the end of 1998 and ranked #1 in singles and #7 in doubles (both arrived on December 31, 1998) with a win-loss record of 78-20 in singles and 36-21 in doubles.
Federer made his Swiss Open debut in 1998 in his native Switzerland where he lost to Lucas Arnold Kerr in the first round. Later that year, he won his first ATP match in Toulouse against Guillaume Rau. He then earned a wildcard at the Swiss Indoor Championships in 1998, where he lost in the first round to world number four and number one Andre Agassi. As of 2021, he is a 10-time champion.
Roger Federer will retire in 2022
Federer has yet to play Wimbledon 2021 and was knocked out of the top 50 on June 13, 2022, and shortly thereafter became unranked for the first time since his professional debut.
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However, Federer announced that he is set to return to the Tour at the 2022 Laver Cup in September. On September 15, 2022, he told his imminent retirement from top-level tennis on the ATP Tour, stating that the Laver Cup would be his last ATP event. “I will play more tennis in the future, of course, but not just in the Grand Slams or on the Tour.
Roger Federer's net worth
Federer's net worth of $550 million is said to be as high as $550 million after his career which saw him earn nearly $1 billion from endorsements and over $115 million from playing tennis.
Roger Federer Philanthropic Foundation
The Roger Federer Foundation In 2003, he founded the Roger Federer Foundation to help disadvantaged children and enhance their access to education and sports.
Since May 2004, citing his close ties to South Africa (his mother is from South Africa), he has been supporting the charitable organization IMBEWU in South Africa and Switzerland, which helps children better connect with sports and social and health awareness. In 2005, he visited South Africa to meet the beneficiary children.