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Roger Federer retires from tennis after illustrious career which includes 20 Grand Slam titles and record eight Wimbledon Championships
Roger Federer has announced that he will be retiring from tennis after next week's Laver Cup.
Fans have been waiting more than a year to see the 41-year-old back on the court and he has now decided to bring an end to his illustrious career, revealing he has played his last Grand Slam.
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The Swiss superstar - a 20-time Grand Slam winner and record eight-time Wimbledon champion - has not played a professional match since limping through a quarter-final defeat at SW19 in 2021.
He will appear in next week's Laver Cup in London, the Ryder Cup-style competition that was his brainchild, but will then leave the professional game.
Federer said: "To my tennis family and beyond. Of all the gifts that tennis has given me over the years, the greatest, without a doubt, has been the people I've met along the way: my friends, my competitors, and most of all the fans who give the sport its life. Today I want to share some news with you.
"As many of you know, the past three years have presented me with the challenges in the form of injuries and surgeries. I've worked hard to return to full competitive form.
"But I also know my body's capacities and limits, and its message to me lately has been clear. I am 41 years old. I have played more than 1500 matches over 24 years. Tennis has treated me more generously than I ever would have dreamt, and now I must recognise when it is time to end my competitive career.
"The Laver Cup next week in London will be my final ATP event. I will play more tennis in the future, of course, but just not in Grand Slams or on the tour."
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Federer leaves tennis as one of the greatest players of all time, in the greatest generation of all time.
He formed a career rivalry with Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, who between them have 63 Grand Slam titles.
Twenty of those belong to Federer, who won an astonishing eight Wimbledons.
Five of those came in consecutive years, before that streak was ended during the iconic 2008 final against Nadal.
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Federer was a junior Wimbledon champion, before turning professional in 1998 and took a few years to fulfil the hype around him.
Once he got that first Grand Slam, he dominated the sport. He won six Australian Opens, five US Opens and the French Open once.
Now he will bow out of the game he enriched for so long after making his farewell at the Laver Cup.
The Team Europe vs Team World event takes place at the O2 later this month, with an all-star line-up that will include the 'Big Four' of Federer, Nadal, Djokovic and Andy Murray.
Roger Federer's career in numbers
20 - Grand Slam titles
31 - Grand Slam finals
23 - consecutive appearances in Grand Slam semi-finals from 2004 to 2010, an all-time record
36 - consecutive appearances in Grand Slam quarter-finals
65 - consecutive Grand Slam appearances from the Australian Open in 2000 to the French Open in 2016
8 - Wimbledon titles, the most of any man
6 - Australian Open titles
5 - US Open titles
1 - French Open title
1,251 - career matches won out of 1,526
369 - match wins in grand slams
22 - consecutive appearances at Wimbledon
310 - weeks spent at world number one, 237 of them consecutively
36 - at 36 years and 320 days, Federer was the oldest world number one in ATP history
5 - Federer has reached the final at every grand slam at least five times
103 - career titles, second in the Open era behind Jimmy Connors
6 - titles won at the ATP Finals, an all-time record
10 - titles won at the ATP events in Basle and Halle
12 - titles won in 2006, his most successful season
92 - matches won from 97 played in 2006
65 - consecutive matches won on grass from 2003 to 2008
3 - Federer reached the finals of all the grand slams in three different seasons
2 - Olympic medals; gold in doubles with Stan Wawrinka in 2008 and silver in singles in 2012
24 - losses to his great rival Rafael Nadal from 40 matches
130,594,339 - career prize money (US dollars)
550million - estimated net worth (USD)
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