Country Switzerland
Residence Bottmingen, Switzerland
Date of birth August 8, 1981 (1981-08-08) (age 27)
Place of birth Basel, Switzerland
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight 85.0 kg (187 lb; 13.39 st)
Turned pro 1998
Plays Right-handed; one-handed backhand
Career prize money US$46,588,210
Residence Bottmingen, Switzerland
Date of birth August 8, 1981 (1981-08-08) (age 27)
Place of birth Basel, Switzerland
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight 85.0 kg (187 lb; 13.39 st)
Turned pro 1998
Plays Right-handed; one-handed backhand
Career prize money US$46,588,210
Federer was born in Binningen, near Basel, to Swiss national Robert Federer and South Africa-born Lynette Durand.
Federer started playing tennis at the age of eight.He began participating in group lessons aged nine and began weekly private coaching the following year. He played football until the age of twelve when he decided to focus solely on tennis.At fourteen, he became the national champion of all groups in Switzerland and was chosen to train at the Swiss National Tennis Center in Ecublens. He joined the ITF junior tennis circuit in July 1996.In 1998, his final year as a junior, Federer won the junior Wimbledon title and the prestigious year-ending Orange Bowl. He was recognized as the ITF World Junior Tennis champion of the year.
Federer started playing tennis at the age of eight.He began participating in group lessons aged nine and began weekly private coaching the following year. He played football until the age of twelve when he decided to focus solely on tennis.At fourteen, he became the national champion of all groups in Switzerland and was chosen to train at the Swiss National Tennis Center in Ecublens. He joined the ITF junior tennis circuit in July 1996.In 1998, his final year as a junior, Federer won the junior Wimbledon title and the prestigious year-ending Orange Bowl. He was recognized as the ITF World Junior Tennis champion of the year.
