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Roger Federer posters
Roger Federer is a professional tennis player from Switzerland. This year in two months before his 29th birthday he was ranked the World Number 2 by the ATP (Association of Tennis Professionals). In his glorious past he held the number 1 position during 237 consecutive weeks and 285 total weeks. Federer is one of the greatest players in the tennis history.
Roger became a winner of 16 Grand Slam singles titles. It's the next male record after the success of Pete Sampras. Roger is one of the six famous male tennis players to capture the career Majors. Majors are the Grand Slam tournaments: Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open. Federer equally perfectly plays on different surfaces: hard courts, clay and grass. Each tournament he shows the excellent result. During 5 years he appeared in 22 career Grand Slam finals. Roger has won 4 ATP World Tour Finals and also 16 ATP Masters Series tournaments. During the Summer Olympic Games in 2008 Roger Federer with Stanislas Wawrinka won the Olympic Gold Medal.
Due to Roger's great results in lawn tennis four times (from 2005 to 2008) he was called "the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year".
Roger has a very rich list of career achievements. From 1998 to 2010 he got more than thirty awards. Several times he became the ATP European Player of the year, the Swiss Sportsman of the Year, the Swiss Sportsman of the Year, BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year, the Reuters International Sportsman of the Year, Sports Illustrated Tennis Player of the Year and others.
In 2010 he already became the International Tennis Writers' Association's Ambassador of the Year, got the "Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship Award", became again the ATP Player of the Year, was named "ATPWorldTour.com Fans' Favourite" and became the MARCA magazine's Sportsman of the Decade. And of course it's not the end!
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