Roger Federer

The skyrocketing career and dramatic personal life of tennis's hottest star, updated to include his 2010 Australian Open win as well as the end-of-season ATP World Wide Tour Finals in London Roger Federer is a legend not only in the world of tennis but also in the wider sports arena. This authoritative and affectionate biography traces his rise, from his first tentative strokes with a tennis racket to how he dealt with being sent away to a training academy where he struggled to...
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The skyrocketing career and dramatic personal life of tennis's hottest star, updated to include his 2010 Australian Open win as well as the end-of-season ATP World Wide Tour Finals in London Roger Federer is a legend not only in the world of tennis but also in the wider sports arena. This authoritative and affectionate biography traces his rise, from his first tentative strokes with a tennis racket to how he dealt with being sent away to a training academy where he struggled to communicate in a French-speaking part of Switzerland and how he handled the sudden death of his first real coach and mentor. It looks at his development as a sportsman and how he has matured into a family man with his marriage to Mirka Vavrinec and the birth of their twin girls. It also examines how Roger bounced back from arguably one of the most challenging periods of his career as, following a serious illness and a dip in form, his run of successive Wimbledon championship wins was ended and he was toppled from the number one spot by his longtime rival Rafael Nadal. In characteristic style, Federer silenced his critics by winning the French Open title for the first time, reclaiming his Wimbledon crown and ending 2009 at the number-one position for the fifth time.