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Roger Federer - 4th Round AO 2010
To complete the AO 2010 line of posts for Roger's matches. Here is the last one. Round 4 against Lleyton Hewitt
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2010 Australian Open 4R - Federer vs Hewitt Highlights (part 1/2)
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2010 Australian Open 4R - Federer vs Hewitt Highlights (part 2/2)
OFF COURT - ROGER NOMINATED FOR LAUREUS AWARD
Roger is in the running to take his fifth sportsman of the year title after being named on the shortlist for the Laureus Sports Awards this week.
The awards, to be held on March 10, recognize achievements in 2009 - a year in which our champion surpassed Pete Sampras for the most tennis grand slam singles titles by winning his sixth Wimbledon crown, as well as capturing his first French Open title.
Roger won the Laureus award for four straight years until Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt took it out last year. Bolt is on the shortlist again for his three golds at the athletics World Championships. Ethiopian athlete Kenesisa Bekele became the first man to win the 5,000 and 10,000 metres double at that World Championships and was also shortlisted. Spanish cyclist Alberto Contador, who won his second Tour de France in three years, was also among the contenders, along with Barcelona and Argentina footballer Lionel Messi, who won the FIFA World Player of the Year, plus Italy’s Valentino Rossi, who claimed his seventh Moto GP title.
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Ninth Title - Wimbledon 2003
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The very first slam at the age of 22 :clap:.
23.06.2003 - 07.07.2003
ATP - WIMBLEDON
London, Great Britain | Grand Slam | grass [o]
R128 Hyung-Taik Lee KOR 43 6-3 6-3 7-6(2)
R64 Stefan Koubek AUT 43 7-5 6-1 6-1
R32 Mardy Fish USA 30 6-3 6-1 4-6 6-1
R16 Feliciano Lopez ESP 55 7-6(5) 6-4 6-4
QF Sjeng Schalken NED 26 6-3 6-4 6-4
SF Andy Roddick USA 7 7-6(6) 6-3 6-3
W Mark Philippoussis AUS 34 7-6(5) 6-2 7-6(3)
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270th Week as No 1. Ties with Ivan Lendl.
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Tenth Title - Vienna 2003
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ATP - CA TENNIS TROPHY
Vienna, Austria | International Series Gold | hard [i]
R32 David Ferrer ESP 64 6-2 6-2
R16 Karol Beck SVK 93 6-3 4-6 6-4
QF Jarkko Nieminen FIN 31 6-3 6-3
SF Max Mirnyi BLR 23 6-2 7-6(2)
W Carlos Moya ESP 7 6-3 6-3 6-3
Doubles with: Yves Allegro (SUI)
R16 Martin Damm
Cyril Suk CZE
CZE
7-5 6-3
QF Jeff Coetzee
Chris Haggard RSA
RSA
6-3 6-4
SF Stefan Koubek
Jurgen Melzer AUT
AUT
6-3 6-2
W Mahesh Bhupathi
Max Mirnyi IND
BLR
7-6(7) 7-5
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Roger Federer was formally recognized for his triumphant return to the top spot in men’s tennis on Wednesday, as the 2009 ATP World Tour Awards were announced.
The 28-year-old superstar collected Player of the Year, the Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship Award and ATPWorldTour.com Fans' Favorite Player of the Year presented by RICOH honors. Federer was named Player of the Year for the fifth time after finishing as ATP World Tour Champion and his fellow players voted him with the sportsmanship award for a record sixth consecutive year, surpassing Edberg, who was a five-time recipient over eight years. In a poll of fans, Federer was voted ATPWorldTour.com Fans' Favorite for the seventh straight season.
ATP World Tour Doubles Champions Bob and Mike Bryan were announced as the Doubles Team of the Year for the fifth time in seven years.
Former ATP World Tour pro MaliVai Washington, a winner of four career ATP World Tour titles and a finalist at Wimbledon, won the prestigious Arthur Ashe Humanitarian of the Year award for his charitable efforts.
The full list of 2009 ATP World Tour Awards winners:
Player Of The Year
FedererRoger Federer: The Swiss native finished as ATP World Tour Champion for the fifth time in six years, highlighted by Grand Slam titles at Roland Garros and Wimbledon. He became the sixth man in the history of the sport to win all four Grand Slam titles during his career and the all-time leader with the most Grand Slam singles titles. He won his 15th Slam crown at Wimbledon, surpassing Pete Sampras, and last month added his 16th title at the Australian Open. He became the second player in the history of the South African Airways ATP Rankings (since 1973) to finish No. 1 after losing it for a season. Ivan Lendl accomplished the feat in 1989.
ATPWorldTour.com Fans' Favourite Presented By RICOH
Roger Federer: The Swiss, who is admired for his work on and off the court, continues to be a fan favourite by millions of fans around the world, who have voted him as ATPWorldTour.com Fans' Favourite for a record seventh consecutive year. Federer received 52% percent of all votes, followed by Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic.
Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship Award
FedererRoger Federer: Fellow players voted the five-time ATP World Tour Champion as the winner of the Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship Award for a record sixth consecutive year. Edberg is the only other player to earn the award five times (over an eight-year span).
http://www.atpworldtour.com/Fans/Fan...Favourite.aspx
FOUNDATION - AN EMOTIONAL VISIT TO ETHIOPIA
World number one Roger Federer sends the ball spinning into the net. His opponent, Ethiopian teenager, Jirata Demksa, smiles and prays the Swiss is having an off day. But Federer just pauses and, taking a deep breath, serves a blistering ace. The 17-year-old, realising he's beaten, simply shrugs.
"He's the best tennis player ever," he says. "I am just lucky we played ping-pong." Jirata says he will never forget taking two points from Federer in an impromptu game of table tennis at a school the tennis ace funds in the poor country. For Federer, this week's visit to Ethiopia was one that moved him to tears. "When I arrived at the school and all of the children were singing, it was very emotional," Federer told Reuters. "They sang, `Roger, our Father' to me. I didn't really understand it at the beginning but I still had tears in my eyes." Federer, limbering up for an attempt to win all four grand slams in a calendar year having already claimed the Australian Open title, was taking some time out to visit Ethiopia -- one of the countries his charitable organisation works in. The Roger Federer Foundation, founded in 2003, spends $1 million a year on education in Ethiopia, South Africa, Tanzania, Mali, Malawi and Zimbabwe.
MOTHER'S INSPIRATION
"My Mum being from South Africa is obviously the inspiration behind the foundation," Federer said, as local kids screamed `Number one!' behind him. "I went there on vacation a lot when I was younger. So we started with a project in South Africa and, as I got older and got more money, I wanted to expand."
Eating a lunch of traditional injera -- a sort of spongy pancake -- with the students at one of two schools he pays for in the country, Federer was peppered with questions. Most of the children wanted to know if he had any of his own. His seven-month old twin girls, Myla and Charlene, could eventually take over the charity Federer wants to continue long after he stops playing, he said. "I definitely want to show them that this world exists as well," Federer said, gesturing at the tin-roofed classrooms around him.
"There's no way around it for them because I'll be travelling. It will be a very exciting ten years for me because I'll be trying to educate and help them and show them all these things." Ethiopia is the world's seventh largest recipient of foreign aid, receiving more than $1.94 billion in 2006, according to the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). About 12 million of the Horn of Africa country's people are reliant on foreign food aid to survive.
As multi-millionaire Federer drove through the streets of the capital Addis Ababa, four street kids caught a glimpse of him through the window of his coach. Leaping to their feet, they ran after the bus. "Federer! Federer! We love you! We love you!" they shouted.
SURPRISE RECOGNITION
For Federer, who has won 16 grand slam titles, the level of recognition in one of the world's poorest and most remote countries, more known for athletics than tennis, was a surprise. "It's my first time here so I didn't expect this," he said. "I always think I should have been to a country before people know me. I forget about the television." Local girl Nihlaa Omar, stretching before racing against the tennis maestro in a 1km fun run, said she had seen him on television in a nearby town.
"We know he's as famous as our famous runners like Kenenisa Bekele," she said referring to the twice Olympic 10,000 metres champion. "But I think Ethiopians can beat him at running." Federer, who was to run against the school's best athletes, agreed saying: "I'm in a lot of trouble". The race kicked off, with the tennis star immediately humbled as the Ethiopian children, who live at high altitude, overtook him en masse, a goat leading the field for the first 500 metres. Federer finished near the back of the field.
"I've always had massive respect for long distance sports," he said. "The terrain was so dangerous and they ran barefoot. It was impressive to say the least." The children, too, were confused by a man more used to split-second exertion. "How old are you?" one girl said. Super-fit Federer, 28, asked her to guess. "I don't know about white people," she said, shyly. "45?"
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