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Roger Federer is an eminent Swiss tennis player, the number one racket of the world from February 2nd, 2004 to August 18th, 2008, 16-time winner of the Grand Slam and Olympic champion in doubles in 2008 (with Stanislas Wawrinka). He was born on August 8th, 1981 in Basel, Switzerland). The Australian Peter Carter was his coach for 10 years. He first picked up a tennis racket at the age of six. In 1998, Roger won the Junior Wimbledon tournament and the prestigious Orange Bowl. In July of the same year he entered his first ATP tournament in Gstaad, Switzerland. By 1999, Federer was ranked among the top hundred players in the ATP. In 2000, he reached the semi-finals at the Olympic Games as well as two ATP tournament finals and by the end of the season he had reached 29th place in the ranking. In February 2001, Roger won the first ATP tournament in Milan, and reached the quarterfinals at Wimbledon. In 2003, Federer won his first Grand Slam tournament on a grass court. That year he also won his first final tournament of the year, the Tennis Masters Cup, beating Andre Agassi in the final. In 2004 Federer won three Grand Slams (all except Roland Garros), and finished the season as first racket of the world. In the same year, Roger received two awards - the champion title by ITF version and the title of Athlete of the Year by Laureus World Sports Awards (he received this title two more times in a row). The years 2005-2006 can be called “Roger’s years”. He won 11 and 12 titles respectively, and 5 out of 6 Grand Slams on hard courts. In May 2007 the battle of coverage was held at the Arena stadium Palma (Palma Arena) in Mallorca. Roger Federer lost to Rafael Nadal in that exhibition match. The players competed on a court consisting of half clay and half grass. Roger Federer broke the record formerly belonging to Jimmy Connors (160 weeks from July 29th 1974 to August 22th 1977) for being the first racket for more than 160 weeks. From September 2003 through to November 2007 he never lost two consecutive games. In addition, Federer broke Pete Sampras record of 14 titles on Grand Slams. He played finals at Wimbledon 7 times in a row, attended the final tournament of the year (only 8 best players of the year are invited) 9 times in a row took, and reached the Grand Slams finals 10 consecutive times of which he won 8. Roger has received a lot of great victories, achievements and unbeatable records. But his biggest personal triumph was the title at Rolland Garros 2009. In that year, Federer finally received his career Grand Slam by winning titles on all four Grand Slam tournaments. Roger Federer is now 29 years old and is rated third racket in the world. He has been named the best tennis player of the planet since Open Era. Even when his career will come to an end sooner or later, he will always be remembered as the Great Roger, King of courts. Kyle Doherty uses sports information portals to find the best bets on Roger Federer.
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