Roger Federer trivia: 60 amazing facts about the famous tennis player!

Roger Federer is one of the best tennis players in the whole world. He has amassed a total of 101 titles in his career so far!

So let’s find some trivia and facts about him!

1. Roger Federer was born on 8th of August 1981
2. He is a Swiss professional tennis player
3. He is currently ranked world No. 3 in men’s singles tennis by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP)
4. He has won 20 Grand Slam singles titles
5. The most in history for a male player
6. And has held the world No. 1 spot in the ATP rankings for a record total of 310 weeks
7. Including a record 237 consecutive weeks
8. After turning professional in 1998, he was continuously ranked in the top ten from October 2002 to November 2016
9. He re-entered the top ten following his victory at the 2017 Australian Open
10. In majors, Federer has won a record eight Wimbledon titles, six Australian Open titles, five US Open titles (all consecutive, a record), and one French Open title
11. He is one of eight men to have achieved a Career Grand Slam
12. Federer has reached a record 30 men’s singles Grand Slam finals
13. Including 10 consecutively from the 2005 Wimbledon Championships to the 2007 US Open
14. Federer has also won a record six ATP Finals titles
15. 28 ATP Tour Masters 1000 titles
16. And a record 22 ATP Tour 500 titles
17. Federer is also the only player after Jimmy Connors to have won 100 or more career singles titles
18. As well as to amass 1200 wins in the Open Era
19. Federer’s all-court game and versatile style of play involve exceptional footwork and shot-making
20. Effective both as a base-liner and a volleyer
21. His apparent effortlessness and efficient movement on the court have made Federer highly popular among tennis fans
22. He has received the tour Sportsmanship Award 13 times
23. And been named the ATP Player of the Year and ITF World Champion five times
24. He has won the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year award a record five times
25. Including four consecutive awards from 2005 to 2008
26. And the most recent one in 2018
27. He is also the only individual to have won the BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year award four times
28. Federer was born in Basel, Switzerland
29. His father, Robert Federer, is a Swiss-German from Berneck in the Canton of St. Gallen
30. And his mother, Lynette Federer, is an Afrikaner from Kempton Park, Gauteng, in South Africa
31. Federer has one sibling, his older sister, Diana
32. She is the mother of a set of twins
33. Since his mother is South African, he holds both Swiss and South African citizenship
34. He grew up in nearby Birsfelden, Riehen, and then Münchenstein, close to the French and German borders
35. He speaks Swiss German, Standard German, English, and French fluently
36. As well as functional Italian and Swedish
37. Swiss German is his native language
38. Federer served as a ball boy at his hometown Basel tournament, the Swiss Indoors, in 1992 and 1993
39. Like all male Swiss citizens, Federer was subject to compulsory military service in the Swiss Armed Forces
40. However, in 2003 he was ruled “unsuitable” and was subsequently not required to fulfill his military obligation
41. Instead, he served in the civil protection force
42. He was required to pay 3% of his taxable income as an alternative
43. He grew up supporting FC Basel and the Swiss national football team
44. Federer also credits his hand-eye coordination to the wide range of sports he played as a child
45. Federer is married to former Women’s Tennis Association player Miroslava Federer
46. He met her while they were both competing for Switzerland at the 2000 Sydney Olympics
47. Usually called Mirka, she retired from the tour in 2002 because of a foot injury
48. They were married at Wenkenhof Villa in Riehen near Basel on 11 April 2009
49. Surrounded by a small group of close friends and family
50. In 2009, Mirka gave birth to identical twin girls
51. The Federers had another pair of identical twins in 2014
52. This time boys
53. Federer is nicknamed King Roger, the Federer Express (shortened to Fed Express or FedEx), the Swiss Maestro or just Maestro
54. On 24 November 2017, Federer received an honorary doctorate awarded to him by his home university, the University of Basel
55. He received the title in recognition for his role in increasing the international reputation of Basel and Switzerland
56. And also his engagement for children in Africa through his charitable foundation
57. The Nadal vs. Federer “Match for Africa” in 2010 in Zurich and Madrid raised more than $4 million for the Roger Federer Foundation and Fundación Rafa Nadal
58. In January 2011, Federer took part in an exhibition, Rally for Relief, to raise money for the victims of the Queensland floods
59. In 2014, the “Match for Africa 2” between Federer and Stan Wawrinka, again in Zurich, raised £850,000 for education projects in Southern Africa
60. In 2003, he established the Roger Federer Foundation to help disadvantaged children and to promote their access to education and sports