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Roger Federer is a Swiss tennis player, whose achievements rank him among the most successful players of all time. He has won ten Grand Slam men's singles titles in 31 appearances, three Tennis Masters Cup titles, and twelve ATP Masters Series titles. In 2004, Federer became the first man since Mats Wilander in 1988 to win three of four Grand Slam singles tournaments in the same year. In 2006, he repeated this feat and became the first man in the open era to win at least ten singles tournaments in three consecutive years. He is ... the only player to have won both the Wimbledon and U.S. Open singles titles in three consecutive years (2004-2006). In 2007, when Federer won his third Australian Open title, he became the only player to have won three separate Grand Slam tournaments three times.
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Roger Federer (8 August, 1981) is a Swiss professional tennis player who is currently ranked World No. 1. Some have described Federer as one of the most dominant players in history, maybe even the greatest of all time [1]. As of 2007, Federer holds the record for being the longest reigning World No. 1, breaking Jimmy Connors' record of 160 weeks. Federer has won a total of 11 Grand Slam titles, 49 singles titles, and 7 doubles titles [2].
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At the age of 25, Roger Federer has made a name for himself as one of the greatest tennis players of all time. Since becoming the No. 1 ranked player in the world on February 2, 2004, he has dominated the ATP. Winning an ATP best 12 titles in 2006, including 3 Grand Slam titles, Roger is the first player in the Open Era to win 10 titles, 3 years in a row. Recently, Federer has broken the record of consecutive weeks at No. 1, previously held by Jimmy Connors. He is the first player in history to earn over $8 million in prize money. Roger Federer has hand signed this 16 x 20 collage commemorating his three consecutive US Open victories, in '04, '05, and '06.
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In 1998, Roger Federer began playing on the professional tennis circuit. He won his first ATP tournament in Milan in 2001 and quickly worked his way up the men's world tennis rankings. In 2003, he won six tournments including his first Grand Slam tournament by defeating Mark Philippoussis at Wimbledon. By 2004, Federer was the number one ranked tennis player on the planet and won three of the four Grand Slam tournaments that year including Wimbledon, the US Open and the Australian Open. Federer has since gone onto win six more Grand Slam titles, bringing his grand total up to 11. Roger enters the 2007 US Open as the favorite and has the chance to add yet another title to his flawless record.
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Roger Federer has made a name for himself as one of the greatest tennis players of all time. Since becoming the No. 1 ranked player in the world on February 2, 2004, he has dominated the ATP. Since 2003, Federer has won an astounding 50-plus Finals- including three Australian Opens, five consecutive Wimbledon titles and four straight U.S. Open titles. His current streak of over 112-plus consecutive weeks as the ATP No.1 puts him in company with Jimmy Connors, Pete Sampras, and Ivan Lendl as the only players in history to be ranked No. 1 for 100 consecutive weeks. Using a blue marker, Roger Federer has hand signed this 16x20 vertical photograph of him hitting a return to Scoville Jenkins of the United States during the first round of the U.S. Open Tennis Championships at the USTA National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, New York, on August 27, 2007. Federer went on to win not only the match, but the entire tournament.
The son of a Swiss father and South African mother, Roger Federer was born in Basil, Switzerland and began playing tennis at the age of eight, but had a strong interest in association football (soccer) as well. At the age of 12 he began to focused fully on tennis and won the Wimbledon junior singles title in 1998 and was the top-ranked junior player in the world by the end of year at the age of 14. He turned professional in 1999 when he played for the Swiss Davis Cup Team. He won the bronze medal in tennis at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney and finished the year ranked at 29. In 2001 he beat former World No. 1 and seven-time Wimbledon champion Pete Sampras at Wimbledon and lost to British player Tim Henman in the quarterfinals. Yet he finished number six in the world in 2002.
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