Rafael "Rafa" Nadal Parera ( born 3 June 1986) is a Spanish professional tennis player . He is considered one of the greatest players of all time. His success on claycourt has earned him the nickname "King of Clay"
and has led many sports journalists and commentators, as well as former
and current players, to regard him as the greatest clay court player in
history.
Nadal has won 13 Grand Slam singles titles, the 2008 Olympic gold medal in singles, a record 26 ATP World Tour Masters 1000 and a record 14 ATP World Tour 500 tournaments. He was also a member of the winning Spain Davis Cup team in 2004, 2008, 2009, and 2011. In 2010, he became the seventh player in history and youngest of four in the Open Era to achieve the Career Grand Slam. He is only the second male player, after Andre Agassi, to complete the Career Golden Slam.
Rafael Nadal
Nadal and Mats Wilander
are the only players in history who have won at least two Grand Slam
titles on three different surfaces—hard court, grass, and claycourt. By
winning the 2013 French Open,
Nadal became the only male player to win a single Grand Slam tournament
eight times and the first to win at least one Grand Slam tournament for
nine consecutive years, breaking the record of eight previously shared
by Björn Borg, Pete Sampras, and Roger Federer. Nadal holds the record for most consecutive titles at a particular tournament as a result of winning his eighth straight Monte-Carlo Masters in 2012.
He is the first Spanish player, male or female, to rank No. 1 for
more than 100 weeks. He is the only Spanish player, male or female, to
have won career golden slam, first Spanish male player to win Australian
Open and second Spanish male player to have won Wimbledon and US Open.
Carrer
Rafael Nadal
Full name
Rafael Nadal Parera
Country
Spain
Residence
Manacor, Balearic Islands, Spain
Born
3 June 1986 (age 27)
Manacor, Balearic Islands, Spain
Height
1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Turned pro
2001
Plays
Left-handed (two-handed backhand)
Coach(es)
Toni Nadal
Prize money
€ 47,270,334
2nd all-time leader in earnings
Official website
rafaelnadal.com
Singles
Career record
658–129 (83.61%)
Career titles
60
Highest ranking
No. 1 (18 August 2008)
Current ranking
No. 1 (30 December 2013)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open
W (2009)
French Open
W (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)
Wimbledon
W (2008, 2010)
US Open
W (2010, 2013)
Other tournaments
Tour Finals
F (2010, 2013)
Olympic Games
Gold Medal (2008)
Doubles
Career record
103–60
Career titles
8
Highest ranking
No. 26 (8 August 2005)
Current ranking
No. 385 (23 December 2013)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open
3R (2004, 2005)
Wimbledon
2R (2005)
US Open
SF (2004)
Team competitions
Davis Cup
W (2004, 2008, 2009, 2011)
Last updated on: 23 Dec 2013.
Olympic medal record
Competitor for Spain
Men's Tennis
Gold
2008 Beijing
Singles
Early in his career
Rafael Nadal
Rafael Nadal was born in Manacor,
Balearic Islands, Spain, to Sebastián Nadal, a businessman who owns an
insurance company, a glass and window company, Vidres Mallorca, and
manages his own restaurant, Sa Punta. His mother is Ana María Parera, a
housewife. He has a younger sister named María Isabel. His uncle, Miguel Ángel Nadal, is a retired professional footballer, who played for RCD Mallorca, FC Barcelona, and the Spanish national team. Nadal supports football clubs Real Madrid and RCD Mallorca. Recognizing that Nadal had a natural talent for tennis, another uncle, Toni Nadal, a former professional tennis player, introduced him to tennis when he was three years old.
At age eight, Nadal won an under-12 regional tennis championship at a time when he was also a promising football player.
This made Toni Nadal intensify training, and at that time he encouraged
Nadal to play left-handed for a natural advantage on the tennis court,
as he noticed Nadal played forehand shots with two hands.
When Nadal was 12, he won the Spanish and European tennis titles in his
age group and was playing tennis and football all the time.
Nadal's father made him choose between football and tennis so that his
school work would not deteriorate entirely. Nadal said: "I chose tennis.
Football had to stop straight away."
Rafael Nadal
When he was 14, the Spanish tennis federation requested that he leave Mallorca and move to Barcelona
to continue his tennis training. Nadal's family turned down this
request, partly because they feared it would hurt his education,
but also because Toni said that "I don't want to believe that you have
to go to America, or other places to be a good athlete. You can do it
from your home."
The decision to stay home meant that Nadal received less financial
support from the federation; instead, Nadal's father covered the costs.
In May 2001, he defeated former Grand Slam tournament champion Pat Cash in a clay-court exhibition match.
Nadal turned professional at the age of 15, and participated in two events on the ITF
junior circuit. In 2002, at the age of 16, Nadal reached the semifinals
of the Boy's Singles tournament at Wimbledon, in his first ITF junior
event.
By the age of 17, he beat Roger Federer the first time they played and became the youngest man to reach the third round at Wimbledon since Boris Becker. At 18, he helped pace Spain over the US in the junior Davis Cup
in his second, and final, appearance on the ITF junior circuit. At 19,
Nadal won the French Open the first time he played it, a feat not
accomplished in Paris for more than 20 years. He eventually won it the
first four times he played at Roland Garros. In 2003, he had won the ATP Newcomer of the Year Award. Early in his career, Nadal became known for his habit of biting the trophies he won.
Novak Djokovic born 22 May 1987 is a Serbian professional tennis player who is currently ranked World No. 2 and was formerly ranked World No. 1 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). He is generally considered to be one of the greatest tennis players of all time.
Djokovic has won six Grand Slam
singles titles and has held the No. 1 spot in the ATP rankings for a
total of 101 weeks. He is the first Serbian player, male or female, to
rank No. 1 for more than 100 weeks and/or win multiple Grand Slams. He
is the first Serbian male player to win the Australian Open, Wimbledon
and US Open. By winning three Grand Slam titles in 2011, Djokovic became
the sixth male player and the first male or female Serbian player in
the Open Era to win three Grand Slams in a calendar year. He is the
first male playe who perticipate for Serbia to win a Grand Slam singles title.
By reaching the 2012 French Open final,
he became the ninth player in the Open Era to reach the final of all
four Grand Slam singles tournaments and became only the fifth to do so
consecutively. Amongst other titles, he won the Tennis Masters Cup in 2008, 2012 and 2013 and was on the Serbian team which won the 2010 Davis Cup. He also won the Bronze medal in men's singles at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He has won 16 Masters 1000
series titles, breaking a single-season record with five titles in
2011. This places him fourth on the list of Masters 1000 winners since
its inception in 1990.
Novak Djokovic
He holds several men's world records of the Open Era:
becoming the youngest player in the Open Era to have reached the
semifinals of all four Grand Slam events both separately and
consecutively; the first and only man to win three consecutive Australian Open titles in the Open Era; and playing the longest Grand Slam men's singles final in history (5 hours 53 minutes). Djokovic's ATP tournament records include winning 31 consecutive ATP World Tour Masters 1000 series matches, playing in the finals at all nine ATP Masters 1000 tournaments (a record matched by Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal), and being the only player to win eight.
Djokovic has won numerous awards, including the 2011 Laureus World Sports Award for Sportsman of the Year and the 2012 Best Male Tennis Player ESPY Award. He has won the ATP World Tour Player of the Year twice consecutively, in 2011 and 2012. He is a recipient of the Order of St. Sava and the Order of the Star of Karađorđe.
Novak Djokovic
Djokovic at the 2011 Hopman Cup
Country
Serbia and Montenegro (2003–2006) Serbia (2006–present)
Residence
Monte Carlo, Monaco
Born
22 May 1987 (age 26)
Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia
Height
1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Turned pro
2003
Plays
Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Coach(es)
Marián Vajda & Boris Becker
Prize money
€ 42,517,672
3rd all-time leader in earnings
Official website
novakdjokovic.com
Singles
Career record
543–132 (80.50%)
Career titles
41
Highest ranking
No. 1 (4 July 2011)
Current ranking
No. 2 (11 November 2013)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open
W (2008, 2011, 2012, 2013)
French Open
F (2012)
Wimbledon
W (2011)
US Open
W (2011)
Other tournaments
Tour Finals
W (2008, 2012, 2013)
Olympic Games
Bronze Medal (2008)
Doubles
Career record
33–46 (41.77%)
Career titles
1
Highest ranking
No. 114 (30 November 2009)
Current ranking
No. 562 (18 November 2013)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open
1R (2006, 2007)
French Open
1R (2006)
Wimbledon
2R (2006)
US Open
1R (2006)
Team competitions
Davis Cup
W (2010)
Hopman Cup
F (2008, 2013)
Last updated on: 08:32, 19 November 2013 (UTC)
Signature of Novak Djokovic.
Olympic medal record
Competitor for Serbia
Men's Tennis
Bronze
2008 Beijing
Singles
Novak Djokovic
2007: Becoming a top-10 player and first Grand slam final
Djokovic began 2007 by defeating Australian Chris Guccione in the final of the tournament in Adelaide, before losing in the fourth round of the Australian Open to eventual champion Roger Federer in straight sets. His performances at the Masters Series events in Indian Wells, and Key Biscayne, where he was the runner-up and champion respectively, pushed him into the world's top 10. Djokovic lost the Indian Wells final to Rafael Nadal, but defeated Nadal in Key Biscayne in the quarterfinals before defeating Guillermo Cañas for the title in the finals.
After winning his first Master Series title, Djokovic returned to Serbia to help his country enter the Davis Cup World Group in a match against Georgia. Djokovic won a point by defeating Georgia's George Chanturia. Later, he played in the Monte Carlo Masters, where he was defeated by David Ferrer in the third round, and at the Estoril Open, where he defeated Richard Gasquet in the final. Djokovic then reached the quarterfinals of both the Internazionali d'Italia in Rome, where he lost to Nadal, and the Hamburg Masters,
where he was defeated by Carlos Moyà. At the French Open, Djokovic
reached his first Grand Slam semi-final, losing to eventual champion
Nadal.[53]
At Wimbledon, Djokovic won a five-hour quarterfinal against Marcos Baghdatis.
In his semi-final match against Nadal, he was forced to retire with
elbow problems in the third set, after winning the first and losing the
second set.
Djokovic playing against Robin Haase in the 1st round of the 2007 US Open
Novak Djokovic
Djokovic's next tournament was the Rogers Cup in Montreal, and he defeated World No. 3 Andy Roddick
in the quarterfinals, World No. 2 Nadal in the semifinals, and World
No. 1 Federer in the final. This was the first time a player had
defeated the top three ranked players in one tournament since Boris Becker in 1994. Djokovic was also only the second player, after Tomáš Berdych, to have defeated both Federer and Nadal since they became the top two players in the world. After this tournament, Björn Borg stated that Djokovic "is definitely a contender to win a Grand Slam (tournament)." The following week at the Western & Southern Financial Group Masters in Cincinnati, Djokovic lost in the second round to Moyà in straight sets. Nevertheless, he went on to reach the final of the US Open,
where he had five set points in the first set and two in the second
set, but lost them all before losing the match in straight sets to the
top-seeded Federer.
Djokovic won his fifth title of the year at the BA-CA TennisTrophy in Vienna, defeating Stanislas Wawrinka in the final. His next tournament was the Mutua Madrileña Masters in Madrid, where he lost to David Nalbandian in the semi-finals. Djokovic, assured of finishing the year as World No. 3, qualified for the year-ending Tennis Masters Cup, but did not advance beyond the round robin matches. He received the Golden Badge award for the best athlete in Serbia, and the Olympic Committee of Serbia declared him the best athlete in the country.
Djokovic played a key role in the 2007 play-off win over Australia by winning all his matches and helping promote the Serbia Davis Cup team to the 2008 World Group. In Serbia's tie against Russia in Moscow in early 2008, Djokovic was sidelined due to influenza and was forced to miss his first singles match. He returned to win his doubles match, teaming with Nenad Zimonjić, before being forced to retire during his singles match with Nikolay Davydenko.
Roger Federer (German pronunciation: [ˈfeːdərər]; born 8 August 1981) is a Swiss professional tennis player who, as of November 2013, is ranked world no. 6 by the ATP.
Numerous commentators, pundits, former and current players of the sport
regard Federer as the greatest tennis player of all time.
He holds several men's world records of the Open Era: holding the world no. 1 position for 302 weeks overall; including a 237-consecutive-week stretch at the top from 2004 to 2008; winning 17 Grand Slam singles titles; reaching the finals of each Grand Slam tournament at least five times (an all-time record); and reaching the Wimbledon final eight times. He is one of seven men, and one of four in the Open Era, to capture the career Grand Slam. Federer also shares the Open Era record for most titles at the Australian Open with Agassi and Novak Djokovic (4), at Wimbledon with Pete Sampras (7) and at the US Open with Jimmy Connors and Sampras (5).
Federer has appeared in 24 men's Grand Slam finals, with 10 in a row, both records, and appeared in 18 of 19 finals from the 2005 Wimbledon Championships through to the 2010 Australian Open. He is the only man to reach at least the semifinals of 23 consecutive Grand Slam tournaments, from the 2004 Wimbledon Championships through the 2010 Australian Open. At the 2013 Australian Open, he reached a record 33rd Grand Slam semi-final, and at the 2013 French Open a record 36th consecutive Grand Slam quarter-final. He has also won the most matches, 260, in men's Grand Slam tournaments.
Roger federer
Federer's ATP tournament records include winning six ATP World Tour Finals,
playing in the finals at all nine ATP Masters 1000 tournaments (a
record shared with Djokovic and Nadal), and having won the most prize
money of any player in history, with over $78,000,000. He also won the Olympic gold medal in doubles with his compatriot Stanislas Wawrinka at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games and the Olympic silver medal in singles at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.
He spent eight years (2003–2010) continuously in the top 2 in the
year-end men's rankings and ten (2003–2012) in the top 3. Federer is the
first tennis player, male or female, to earn more than 50 Million US
Dollars in prize money.
Federer has won the ATPWorldTour.com Fans' Favourite Award a
record eleven times straight (2003–2013) and the Stefan Edberg
Sportsmanship Award (voted for by the players) a record nine times
(2004–2009, 2011–2013),
both being awards indicative of respect and popularity. He also won the
Arthur Ashe Humanitarian of the Year Award twice in 2006 and 2013. He
was named the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year for a record four consecutive years (2005–2008). Federer is at times referred to as the Federer Express, shortened to Fed Express or FedEx, and the Swiss Maestro, or just Maestro. Federer is the first Swiss male player to win a grand slam tournament.
Roger Federer
Roger federer
Federer at the 2009 Wimbledon Championships
Country
Switzerland
Residence
Wollerau, Switzerland and Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Born
8 August 1981 (age 32)
Basel, Switzerland
Height
1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Turned pro
1998
Plays
Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Coach(es)
Peter Carter (10-14 & 16-20)
Peter Lundgren (2000-2003)
Tony Roche (2006-2007)
Jose Higueras (2008)
Paul Annacone (2010-2013)
Prize money
€ 57,641,609
1st all-time leader in earnings
Official website
rogerfederer.com
Singles
Career record
923–215 (81.11% in ATP World Tour and Grand Slam main draw matches, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles
77 (tied 3rd in the Open Era)
Highest ranking
No. 1 (2 February 2004)
Current ranking
No. 6 (11 November 2013)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open
W (2004, 2006, 2007, 2010)
French Open
W (2009)
Wimbledon
W (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012)
US Open
W (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008)
Other tournaments
Tour Finals
W (2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011)
Olympic Games
Silver Medal (2012)
Doubles
Career record
121-82 (59.61% in ATP World Tour and Grand Slam main draw matches, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles
8
Highest ranking
No. 24 (9 June 2003)
Current ranking
No. 562 (4 November 2013)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open
3R (2003)
French Open
1R (2000)
Wimbledon
QF (2000)
US Open
3R (2002)
Other Doubles tournaments
Olympic Games
Gold Medal (2008)
Team competitions
Davis Cup
SF (2003)
Hopman Cup
W (2001)
Olympic medal record
Competitor for Switzerland
Men's Tennis
Gold
2008 Beijing
Doubles
Silver
2012 London
Singles
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Childhood and early life
Roger federer
Federer was born at the Basel Cantonal Hospital in Basel, Switzerland. His father, Robert Federer, is Swiss, from Berneck, near the borders between Switzerland, Austria and Germany, and his mother, Lynette Federer (born Durand), from Kempton Park, Gauteng, is a South African whose ancestors were Dutch and French Huguenots. Federer has one sibling, his older sister Diana. He holds both Swiss and South African citizenship. He grew up in nearby Birsfelden, Riehen and then Münchenstein, close to the French and German borders and speaks (Swiss) German, French and English fluently, German being his native language.
Federer was raised as a Roman Catholic and met Pope Benedict XVI while playing the 2006 Internazionali BNL d'Italia tournament in Rome. Like all male Swiss citizens, Federer was subject to compulsory military service
in the Swiss Armed Forces. However, in 2003 he was deemed unfit because
of a long-standing back problem and was subsequently not required to
fulfill his military obligation. He grew up supporting F.C. Basel and the Swiss National Football Team.
Federer also credits the range of sports he played as a child—he also
played badminton and basketball—for his hand-eye coordination. Federer
has stated in various interviews that he is an "avid cricket fan" having
met Sachin Tendulkar
twice. "I was always very much more interested if a ball was involved,"
he says. Most tennis prodigies, by contrast, play tennis to the
exclusion of all other sports. In later life, Federer has been friends with the golfer Tiger Woods.
Family
Federer's family watching him in Indian Wells, 2012.
Federer's signature in 2013.
Roger federer
Roger federer
Federer is married to former Women's Tennis Association player Mirka Vavrinec. He met her while both were competing for Switzerland in the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Vavrinec retired from the tour in 2002 because of a foot injury. They were married at Wenkenhof Villa in Riehen near Basel on 11 April 2009, surrounded by a small group of close friends and family. On 23 July 2009, Mirka gave birth to identical twin girls, Myla Rose and Charlene Riva.
Spain
Gold Medal (2008)
Bronze Medal (2008)
Silver Medal (2012)
Gold Medal (2008)
