{"id":17109,"date":"2021-08-08T13:46:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T08:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=134474"},"modified":"2021-08-08T13:46:14","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T08:16:14","slug":"the-tennis-legend-roger-federer-turns-40-today-lets-take-a-look-at-his-journey-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/tennis\/the-tennis-legend-roger-federer-turns-40-today-lets-take-a-look-at-his-journey-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tennis legend, Roger Federer turns 40 today, Let\u2019s take a look at his journey so far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Swiss tennis icon celebrates his 40th birthday today as fans and athletes sent in their wishes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">40-\u2764\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rogerfederer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@rogerfederer<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Happy 40th birthday to our 6x <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AusOpen?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AusOpen<\/a> champion. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Jog9VuOruM\">pic.twitter.com\/Jog9VuOruM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 #AusOpen (@AustralianOpen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AustralianOpen\/status\/1424188646802952198?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 8, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Roger Federer, born on August 8 in 1981 in Bessel, Switzerland<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, is one of the greatest names in the realm of tennis today. The tennis player has given 23 of the 40 years of his life to tennis while winning a record of 20 Grand Slam titles in total.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Federer\u2019s style of play has always been applauded by the experts and by fans all around the globe. He is someone who displays effortless grace remarkably well which goes along with his consistent results through the years. Federer is also known for the way he conducts himself both on and off the court. Along with his excellent style of play, his humbleness has made him a real crowd favourite everywhere he goes.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Roger Federer spent $13.5 million to establish 81 pre-schools for children in Malawi in 2015. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HmDrNfXY6E\">pic.twitter.com\/HmDrNfXY6E<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Africa Facts Zone (@AfricaFactsZone) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AfricaFactsZone\/status\/1296080400197079047?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 19, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Federer is likewise very respected and well-liked among his peers as well, having won the Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship grant (which is voted for by all the ATP players) a record number of 13 times. His<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> gentlemanly behaviour has also been voted the second most respected, admired and trusted individual in the world after Nelson Mandela. He finished ahead of the likes of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Oprah Winfrey and Bono in the 2011 Leader RepTrak.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Federer has an immense rundown of records to his name. Here are some of his incredible career records:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Most Grand Slams of all time: 20<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Most Grand Slam finals: 30<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Most weeks as World Number one: 310<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Most consecutive weeks (male or female) as World Number one: 237<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Only male player to have won 3 different Slams 5 times (6 Australian Open, 8 Wimbledon, 5 US Open).<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Most consecutive Grand Slam finals, semifinals and quarterfinals: 10, 23 and 36 respectively<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Most Wimbledon titles: 8<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oldest player to be ranked World No. 1 (36 years old)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Most year-end championship titles: 6<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Most matches played on the ATP tour without retiring.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2013 Most consecutive finals won: 24<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tennis icon celebrates his 40th birthday as fans and his peers send in wishes virtually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":37856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[476,689,688,331,202,335,250],"class_list":["post-17109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp","tag-australian-open","tag-french-open","tag-roger-federer","tag-tennis","tag-us-open","tag-wimbledon"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}