Roger Federer Height, Weight, Age, Spouse, Family, Facts, Biography

Roger Federer Quick Info
Height	6 ft 1 in
Weight	85 kg
Date of Birth	August 8, 1981
Zodiac Sign	Leo
Spouse	Mirka Federer

Roger Federer is a Swiss tennis phenomenon who has won 20 Grand Slam singles titles. He has held the world No. 1 spot in the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) rankings for a record total of 310 weeks (including a record 237 consecutive weeks), was the year-end No. 1 five times (including four consecutive), and was ranked world No. 4 in men’s singles tennis by the ATP in 2020. Known for his all-court game, he is also the first person to win the BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year award four times. In his career, he won 103 ATP singles titles,

Born Name

Roger Federer

Nick Name

King Roger, Federer Express, Maestro, RF, El reloj suizo, Der Künstler

Sun Sign

Leo

Born Place

Basel, Switzerland

Residence

Bottmingen, Arlesheim, Switzerland
Valbella, Switzerland
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Wollerau, Switzerland
Oberwil, Switzerland

Nationality

Education

He dropped out of school at the age of 16.

Occupation

Professional Retired Tennis Player

Plays

Right-handed (one-handed backhand)

Turned PRO

1998

Grand Slams Won

Federer has won –

US Open – 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
Wimbledon – 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012, 2017
Australian Open – 2004, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2017, 2018
French Open – 2009

Family

Father – Robert Federer
Mother – Lynette Federer (née Durand)
Siblings – Diana (Older Sister)
Others – Benedikt Anton Federer (Paternal Grandfather), Maria Katharina Inauen (Paternal Grandmother), Jacobus Albertus Durand (Maternal Grandfather), Vera Meyer (Maternal Grandmother)

Manager

Roger’s agent is Tony Godsick.

Their relationship goes back to the time when Roger started playing professional tennis. They established an athlete Management Company together, which is called Team8.

Build

Athletic

Height

6 ft 1 in or 185 cm

Weight

187 lbs or 85 kg

Girlfriend / Spouse

Roger Federer has dated –

Mirka Federer (2000-Present) – Roger met Mirka (born Miroslava Vavrincová) back in the year 2000, at the Olympics in Sydney. Both of them were competing for their country Switzerland. Mirka is a former player of the Women’s Tennis Association who got injured in one of the tournaments and, hence, retired in 2002. Mirka and Roger were in a relationship for 9 years until April 11, 2009, when they finally got married at Wenkenhof Villa in Riehen near Basel. On July 23, 2009, Mirka gave birth to the couple’s first pair of twin girls, Myla Rose and Charlene Riva, and then on May 6, 2014, she gave birth to another pair of twins, this time boys, named, Leo and Lenny.

Race / Ethnicity

White

Roger is of Swiss-German descent on his father’s side and has Afrikaner (Dutch, German, French/French Huguenot, distant Scottish, Belgian Flemish, Swiss-German, Danish, and Portuguese) roots on his mother’s side.

Hair Color

Dark Brown

Eye Color

Dark Brown

Sexual Orientation

Straight

Distinctive Features

Elegance
Specific face
Very calm
Great sportsmanship

Shoe Size

12 (US) or 11 (UK) or 46.5 (EU)

Brand Endorsements

Roger has signed sponsorship contracts with brands like Nike, Rolex, Wilson, Gillette, Mercedes-Benz, Jura, Credit Suisse, Nationale Suisse, NetJets, and others.
Roger has appeared in many commercials; you can check the full list on this YouTube channel.
In 2021, he was announced as the brand ambassador for Switzerland Tourism.
In September 2021, he appeared in the “Never Still” campaign for RIMOWA alongside Rihanna, LeBron James, and Patti Smith.

Religion

Roger was raised Roman Catholic.

He once met Pope Benedict XVI, while he was playing on the Internazionali BNL d’Italia tournament in Italy, back in the year 2006.

Best Known For

He is considered to be the greatest tennis player who has ever lived.
Roger has been known for holding the record for most weeks spent on the number 1 spot on the ATP list (302 weeks), and also for winning 17 Grand Slam titles in all.

Personal Trainer

In the period from 1991 until the present, Roger had been coached by various trainers, starting from Adolf Kacovsky back in 1991, then Peter Carter (1991-2000), Peter Lundgren (2000-2003), Tony Roche (2006-2007), Jose Higueras (2008), Paul Annacone (2010-2013), Severin Luthi (2013-2014) and the last one, Stefan Edberg, who coached Federer in 2014.

You can check Federer’s workout routine HERE.

Roger Federer Favorite Things

Cuisine / Food – Italian, Japanese, Rosti, Fondue, Raclette
Car – Mercedes – Benz
City – Rome
Movie – Good Will Hunting (1997)
Number – Eight
Vacation Place – Sardinia, Miami
Pre-match Meal – Pasta, chicken salad, fruits
Song – Fly Away (By Lenny Kravitz)
Favorite Dubai Restaurant – LA Petite Maison
Labels – Louis Vuitton
Athlete – Zinedine Zidane
Favorite Football Club – FC Basel

Source – Telegraph.co.uk, GotoTennis.com, DailyMail, Shortlist

Roger Federer Facts

At the age of 11, Federer was among the top 3 junior tennis players in Switzerland.

In 2003, he became the first Swiss tennis player to win a Grand Slam.

He is the only player to win Wimbledon and U.S Open for three straight years.

At the age of 8, he played soccer.

At 8, he had also started playing tennis.

Boris Becker and Stefan Edberg are Federer’s all-time favorite players.

At the age of 14, Roger became the national junior tennis champion of Switzerland.

Federer held the first spot on the ATP list from 2004 to 2008.

Roger has his own Roger Federer Foundation, which helps with providing grants to poor countries, where the child mortality rates are more than 15 percent. His foundation is has donated to sports-based and education projects.

He loves playing basketball and golf. In one of the interviews, he said that if he had the opportunity to play another sport, he would choose basketball.

Roger is friends with golf star, Tiger Woods, and tennis fellow, Stan Wawrinka.

He knows how to play the piano.

Federer loves American professional wrestling.

One of Roger’s best friends is the NHL star Ziggy Palffy.

Roger has won a gold medal for Switzerland playing in doubles, during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.

He was a part of the Switzerland team that won the 2014 Davis Cup.

Roger won a silver medal in the singles category during the Olympic games held in London in 2012.

He can speak several languages including Swiss German, Standard German, English, French, Italian, and Swedish.

In 2020, one of Federer’s longtime rivals, Rafael Nadal, also achieved the feat of having won a total of 20 Grand Slams as he defeated Novak Djokovic in the 2020 French Open.

With $106.3 million in earnings, Roger was the 3rd highest-paid celebrity of 2020 as per Forbes.

In 2020, he had undergone 2 knee surgeries.

In June 2021, after winning a match against Dominik Koepfer at the 2021 French Open, Roger revealed that he was stepping back from the competition due to his physical health.

In July 2021, Roger Federer had also withdrawn himself from Tokyo Olympics 2020 (held in 2021 due to COVID-19) due to a knee problem. Later, in August 2021, he also withdrew from the 2021 U.S. Open.

Roger had entered the top 100 ATP rankings for the first time in 1999 and in 2004, became the world #1 for the first time.

After he skipped playing in the Wimbledon 2022, he was out of the ATP rankings for the first time in 25 years. The ATP rankings consisted of the top 1,000 players in the world.

On September 15, 2022, Roger Federer announced his retirement from professional tennis. He was 41 at that time.

In his career, he had won 1251 singles matches out of over 1500 matches played.

His last ATP event was Laver Cup which was held in London, England in September 2022.

The total prize money he had won in his entire career was over $130.5 million.

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