Roger Federer Biography

Roger Federer

Birthdate: August 8, 1981
Birthplace: Basel, Switzerland
Roger Federer's sweet forehand and court smarts have made him one of the top-ranked tennis players in the world.
Roger Federer - The Beginning
Roger Federer began playing tennis when he was eight years old. By the time he was ten, people were already talking about Roger's sweet touch with the racket and his competitive attitude. Roger would sometimes beat other kids his age so badly they would start crying and Roger would often cry and smash rackets himself if he ever lost a match. Roger left home when he was 13 to train at a top-rated tennis academy in Switzerland and was the
number one ranked junior player in the world by the time he was 16.
Roger Federer - The Swiss Master
In 1998, Roger Federer began playing on the professional tennis circuit. He won his first ATP tournament in Milan in 2001 and quickly worked his way up the men's world tennis rankings. In 2003, he won six tournments including his first Grand Slam tournament by defeating Mark Philippoussis at Wimbledon. By 2004, Federer was the number one ranked tennis player on the planet and won three of the four Grand Slam tournaments that year including Wimbledon, the US Open and the Australian Open. Federer has since gone onto win twelve more Grand Slam titles, bringing his grand total up to 13. Roger has won the US Open five times and the Aussie Open, three times. The only major tournament that he has not won is the French Open in Paris.
Roger Federer - The Best Ever?
Roger Federer's professional tennis career is still quite young, but some are predicting he could beat Pete Sampras' record of 14 Grand Slam tennis titles in 2009. Federer is an extremely intelligent tennis player who's known for his dominating forehand and rarely making mistakes on the court. He has already won 13 Grand Slam titles and his smart, consistent play means he'll be a favorite to win several more before his career is over.
Roger Federer - Did You Know?
Roger Federer speaks three languages - English, German and French.
Roger Federer is one of the few professional tennis players in the world that does not have a full-time coach.
Roger Federer's favorite music is anything by AC/DC or Lenny Kravitz.
In 2007, Roger Federer became the first living Swiss person to be featured on a Swiss stamp. The postage picture features Roger holding the Wimbledon trophy.
Roger Federer is dating former professional tennis player Mirka Vavrinec. The pair met at the 2000 Sydney Olympics where they were both representing Switzerland.
Roger Federer Says...
"I can't stay No. 1 for fifty years, you know. We'll see what happens. " Add to Cart View detail

Andy Murray

Andrew "Andy" Murray (born 15 May 1987) is a Scottish professional tennis player who is currently the highest-ranked British player.[3][4] Murray broke into the official ATP Top 10 for the first time on 16 April 2007, and reached a career-high of No. 4 after the 2008 U.S. Open, in which he reached the final, losing to Roger Federer.

In December 2005, Murray won the BBC Scotland Sports Personality of the Year Award and the sport section of the Top Scot awards. His elder brother Jamie is Great Britain's highest ranked doubles player. Murray is most proficient on a fast surface (such as hard courts or grass), although he has worked hard recently on improving his clay court game. Murray works with a team of fitness experts, Miles Maclagan currently acting as his main coach. He was previously coached by American Brad Gilbert who used to coach the likes of Andre Agassi and Andy Roddick.


Andy Murray was born to Willy and Judy in Glasgow, Scotland. His maternal grandfather was a professional footballer who played reserve team matches for Hibernian and senior football for Stirling Albion; as a result, Murray is a Hibs fan. Murray has a bipartite patella, where the kneecap remains as two separate bones instead of fusing together in early childhood. Murray attended Dunblane Primary School, where he experienced the Dunblane Massacre of 1996. Thomas Hamilton killed 17 people, mostly children who were in a younger age group than Murray, before turning one of his four guns on himself. Murray himself took cover in a classroom. Murray says he was too young to understand what was happening and is reluctant to talk about it in interviews, but in his autobiography Hitting Back he says that he attended a youth group run by Hamilton, and that his mother gave him rides in her car. Murray went on to attend Dunblane High School.

Andy's parents, Willie and Judy Murray, separated in 1996, and divorced in March 2005.[citation needed] Andy's girlfriend, since 2006, is Kim Sears, daughter of Nigel Sears, former tennis coach of the Slovak player Daniela Hantuchová.[citation needed] Andy has a penthouse apartment in South London and an apartment in the Brickell district of Miami, Florida.

Murray first picked up a tennis racquet when he was two years old, and was soon playing with his older brother Jamie. Leon Smith, Murray's tennis coach from 11 to 17, said he'd never seen a five-year-old like Murray, describing him as "unbelievably competitive". Murray attributes his abilities to the motivation gained from losing to Jamie, who had been the second-best junior player in the world. He first beat Jamie in an under-12s final in Solihull, afterwards teasing Jamie until his brother hit him hard enough to lose a nail on his left hand. At 12, Murray won the Orange Bowl, a prestigious event for under-12s. He briefly moved away from tennis, turning towards football instead, but soon reverted.

When playing against Rafael Nadal, who was a year older than Murray, he found out Nadal was training with Carlos Moyà, the world number one.Murray was angry that he had only his brother to practice with, so when he was 15 he moved to Barcelona, Spain, where he attended the Schiller International School and trained on the clay courts of the Sánchez-Casal Academy. Murray described this as "a big sacrifice to move away from your family, and spend money training over there when you're not making any back". His schoolwork was also sacrificed during this period; despite being bright, he left without qualifications. While in Spain he trained with Emilio Sánchez, formerly the world number one doubles player. In September 2004, he won the junior US Open and was selected for the Davis Cup match against Austria later that month. Later that year, he won BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year.

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JENSON BUTTON

Jenson Alexander Lyons Button (born 19 January 1980) is a British Formula One racing driver from England. He currently drives for the Brawn GP team. He won his first Grand Prix in Hungary, on 6 August 2006 after 113 races.[1] He won his next two grand prix races with his new team at the start of the 2009 season

Jenson Button was born in Frome, Somerset, and went to Selwood Middle School and then Frome community college. He is the son of Simone Lyons and former Rallycross ace John Button from London (during the 1970s well-known in the UK for his so-called Colorado beetle Volkswagen, whose best overall results was to become the runner-up in both the Embassy/RAC-MSA British Rallycross and TEAC/Lydden Rallycross championships of the year 1976.[2] Jenson Button’s parents are divorced, and he has three older sisters, Tania Katrina (born 1967), Samantha Chantal (born 1970) and Natasha Michelle (born 1973) Button.


Racing career on 2009

On 5 March 2009, it was announced that the former Honda team would become Brawn GP, following a buy-out by Ross Brawn, the Team Principal of Honda Racing. Button, along with Rubens Barrichello, was confirmed as one of the team's drivers for the 2009 season. He took pole in his first qualifying session for the team, with team mate Barrichello in second place.[19] He managed to win his first race for Brawn [20] leading the race from start to finish [21] leading home Barrichello giving the team a 1-2 finish on their debut, which hasn't happened since 1954. [22] One week later, Jenson made it 2 pole positions in a row, for the first time in his career, as he took pole for the Malaysian Grand Prix. After the race was stopped due to heavy rain, Button won the race with half points since the drivers had not completed more than 75% of the race.

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Kallio is willing, perhaps even Canepa


In the camp of Pramac-Ducati, the two different learning curves Youngster: Mika Kallio is "ready for Qatar", Niccolò Canepa still at odds

Niccolò Canepa is the latest addition to Ducati Pramac-slow pace of
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(Motorsport Total.com) - The Pramac team as a model for the MotoGP of the future, because as a young troupe of Ducati 2009 leads you have two talents carefully approached the big circus. Likewise, it Dorna CEO Carmelo Ezpeleta on: The youngster from 2010 to apprenticeship training in the Privatrennställen before maybe a year later, the jump in a work team succeeds.

The example of-Pramac Ducati is currently best observe how different the learning curves of young talent can be lost. Mika Kallio has jumped from the 250er-class claims to have managed well. "It runs well," the Finn was in the 'SpeedWeeks' cited. "We have a very viable reason vote found and are ready for Qatar." According to Kallio delivered good results during testing in Jerez from. Add to Cart View detail

Report: Michael Beasley makes sweet love to practice rims

By J.E. Skeets


Last year around this time — in fact, almost to the day — then-college freshman Michael Beasley was busy posting 23 points and 11 rebounds in the only upset on opening day of the NCAA Tournament — a No. 11 Kansas State win over O.J. Mayo's No. 6 Southern California. I'm pretty sure Pat Riley was in attendance.

This year? This year, rookie Miami Heat forward Michael Beasley is reportedly "getting his Dwight Howard on."

Sarah Rothschild (and/or Michael Wallace) of the Miami Herald's "On The Beat" Heat blog have the story, unfortunately sans photos or video:

While A-Rod is making headlines for a magazine photo that caught him standing in front of a floor-to-ceiling mirror appearing to kiss the image of himself, Beasley found another target: The rim.

Yes, the rim.

Showing off the athleticism many skeptics questioned he had, Beasley went berserk Thursday, throwing down monster dunks after practice for no reason in particular. At one point, Beasley jumped, switched the ball from his left to his right hand between his legs, and flushed it as his teammates looked on.

Then, he got the idea that he needed to really show his hops. So he started going around to all of the courts, attempting several times to jump into the air and kiss the rim — proving that he could get his head at rim level. Freakish athletic stuff, right? Add to Cart View detail

Biography Valentino Rossi


Valentino Rossi (born February 16, 1979 in Urbino) is an Italian professional motorcycle racer and multiple MotoGP World Champion. He is one of the most successful motorcycle racers of all time, with 8 Grand Prix World Championships to his name. According to Sports Illustrated, Valentino Rossi is one of the highest earning sports personalities in the world, having earned an estimated $34 million in 2007.

Following his father, Graziano Rossi, Rossi started racing in Grand Prix in 1996 for Aprilia in the 125cc category and won his first World Championship the following year. From there, he moved up to the 250 cc category, again with Aprilia, and won the World Championship in 1999. He won the 500 cc World Championship with Honda in 2001, the MotoGP World Championships (also with Honda) in 2002 and 2003, and continued his streak of back-to-back championships by winning the 2004 and 2005 titles after leaving Honda to join Yamaha, before regaining the title in 2008.

Valentino Rossi was born in Tavullia, Urbino. Son of Graziano Rossi, a former motorcycle racer, he first began riding at a very young age.

Rossi's first racing love was go-karts. Fuelled by his mother, Stefania's, concern for her son's safety, Graziano purchased a go-kart as substitute for the bike. However, the Rossi family trait of perpetually wanting to go faster prompted a redesign; Graziano replaced the 60cc motor with a 100cc national kart motor for his then 5-year-old son.

Graziano attempted to forge documents in an attempt to get Valentino's junior kart licence one year before he was legally allowed (he was nine at the time), but ultimately failed.

Rossi won the regional kart championship in 1990.[5] After this, he took up minimoto and before the end of 1991, he had won numerous regional races.

Although minimoto was for fun[citation needed], Rossi continued to race karts and finished fifth at the national kart championships in Parma. Both Valentino and Graziano had started looking at moving into the Italian 100cc series as well as the corresponding European series, which most likely would have pushed him into the direction of Formula 1. However, the high cost of racing karts led to the decision to race minimoto exclusively[citation needed]. Through 1992 and 1993, Valentino continued to learn the ins and outs of minimoto racing.

Rossi soon started to outgrow minimoto; a proper motorcycle was required. In 1993, Rossi acquired a Cagiva Mito 125 cc motorcycle, which was damaged in a first-corner crash no more than a hundred meters out from pit lane[citation needed]. He finished ninth that race weekend.

Although his first season in the Italian Sport Production Championship was varied, he achieved a pole position in the season's final race at Misano, where he would ultimately finish on the podium. By the second year, Rossi had been provided with a factory Mito by Cagiva team manager Claudio Lusuardi and he managed to win the Italian title.

In Rossi's youth one of his heroes was the late former WRC Champion Colin McRae. Rally legend McRae taught Rossi the basics of driving a rally car and the two competed against each other at Monza in 2005, with McRae driving a Skoda Fabia WRC and Rossi a Subaru Impreza WRC, with Rossi winning. Add to Cart View detail

Sport

Sport in childhood. Association football, shown above, is a team sport which also provides social interaction.

Show Jumping, an equestrian sport.

Sport is an activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively. Sports commonly refer to activities where the physical capabilities of the competitor are the sole or primary determinant of the outcome (winning or losing), but the term is also used to include activities such as mind sports (a common name for some card games and board games with little to no element of chance) and motor sports where mental acuity or equipment quality are major factors. Sport is commonly defined as an organized, competitive and skillful physical activity requiring commitment and fair play. Some view sports as differing from games based on the fact that there are usually higher levels of organization and profit (not always monetary) involved in sports. Accurate records are kept and updated for most sports at the highest levels, while failures and accomplishments are widely announced in sport news.

The term sports is sometimes extended to encompass all competitive activities in which offense and defense are played, regardless of the level of physical activity. Both games of skill and motor sport exhibit many of the characteristics of physical sports, such as skill, sportsmanship, and at the highest levels, even professional sponsorship associated with physical sports.

Sports that are subjectively judged are distinct from other judged activities such as beauty pageants and bodybuilding shows, because in the former the activity performed is the primary focus of evaluation, rather than the physical attributes of the contestant as in the latter (although "presentation" or "presence" may also be judged in both activities).

Sports are most often played just for fun or for the simple fact that people need exercise to stay in good physical condition.

Although they do not always succeed, sports participants are expected to display good sportsmanship, standards of conduct such as being respectful of opponents and officials, and congratulating the winner when losing. Add to Cart View detail