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Roger Federer's Tennis Legacy

Roger Federer is a Swiss professional tennis player considered one of the greatest of all time. He has won a record 20 Grand Slam singles titles, including a record 8 Wimbledon titles. Federer held the world No. 1 ranking for a record 310 total weeks, including 237 consecutive weeks. He has won over 100 career singles titles and has reached a record 31 Grand Slam finals. Federer's versatile all-court game involving exceptional footwork and shot-making has made him highly popular among fans.

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Roger Federer's Tennis Legacy

Roger Federer is a Swiss professional tennis player considered one of the greatest of all time. He has won a record 20 Grand Slam singles titles, including a record 8 Wimbledon titles. Federer held the world No. 1 ranking for a record 310 total weeks, including 237 consecutive weeks. He has won over 100 career singles titles and has reached a record 31 Grand Slam finals. Federer's versatile all-court game involving exceptional footwork and shot-making has made him highly popular among fans.

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Roger Federer (German pronunciation: [ˈrɔdʒər ˈfeːdərər]; born 8 August 1981) is a Swiss

professional tennis player who is currently ranked world No. 3 in men's singles tennis by
the Association of Tennis Professionals(ATP).[3] He is considered one of the greatest tennis players
of all time. He has won 20 Grand Slam singles titles—the most in history by a male player—and has
held the world No. 1 spot in the ATP rankings for a record total of 310 weeks, including a record 237
consecutive weeks. After turning professional in 1998, he was continuously ranked in the top ten
from October 2002 to November 2016.
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. He is one of eight men to have
achieved a Career Grand Slam. Federer has reached a record 31 men's singles Grand Slam finals,
including 10 consecutively from the 2005 Wimbledon Championships to the 2007 US Open. Federer
has also won a record six ATP Finals titles, 28 ATP Tour Masters 1000 titles, and a record 23 ATP
Tour 500 titles. Federer is also the only player after Jimmy Connors to have won 100 or more career
singles titles, as well as to amass 1,200 wins in the Open Era.
Federer's all-court game and versatile style of play involve exceptional footwork and shot-
making.[4] Effective both as a baseliner and a volleyer, his apparent effortlessness and efficient
movement on the court have made Federer highly popular among tennis fans. He has received the
tour Sportsmanship Award 13 times and been named the ATP Player of the Year and ITF World
Champion five times. He has won the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year award a record five
times, including four consecutive awards from 2005 to 2008. He is also the only person to have won
the BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year award four times.

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