Tag: Roger Federer
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Virat Kohli only cricketer in Forbes’ highest-paid athletes list
Kohli has earned a sum of $26 million, with $24 million coming from his long list of endorsements and rest from his salaries and prize money.
May 30, 2020 -
Roger Federer edges out Cristiano Ronaldo in Forbes’ list of highest-paid athletes
A key factor that went into Federer edging out the football stars was that the latter had to take heavy salary cuts during the coronavirus pandemic.
May 30, 2020 -
Watch | Roger Federer thanks healthcare workers for helping fight COVID-19
Giving a surprise message to Christianne Calderon, a nurse practitioner at New York, Federer thanked all the corona warriors.
May 16, 2020 -
Tennis legend Boris Becker supports Roger Federer’s idea of merging ATP. WTA
Boris Becker supported the idea put forth by Roger Federer to merge ATP and WTA amid the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
May 1, 2020 -
Dominic Thiem against Novak Djokovic’s plan to financially help lower-ranked players
Dominic Thiem stated that he was ready to help people who are in need of the money but said that none of the lower-ranked players had an existential crisis.
April 26, 2020 -
Rafael Nadal backs Roger Federer’s proposal of merging ATP with WTA
The 20-time Grand Slam champion expressed his views on Twitter and was soon backed by another tennis great and his bitter rival Rafael Nadal.
April 23, 2020 -
Fifteen years on, how maiden Monte Carlo win sparked Nadal breakthrough
Despite his maiden victory in Monte Carlo, however, Nadal wasn't sounding confident about his chances at Roland Garros later that season.
April 19, 2020 -
Federer’s ability to serve and volley not talked about enough: Djokovic
The pair have played a number of matches over the years that have decided Grand Slam titles, the latest of which included the 2020 Australian Open final and the epic 2019 Wimbledon final.
April 19, 2020 -
Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal discuss COVID-19 fund
Djokovic talked about trying to amass somewhere around $3 million to $4.5 million to distribute, perhaps to players ranked from around 200th or 250th to around 700th.
April 19, 2020 -
COVID-19: Serena takes up Federer’s volley challenge
Federer's challenge has been taken up by a number of people in the tennis world in their own way.
April 17, 2020 -
Cheer for frontline workers: Federer urges fans in Wimbledon video
Federer with eight titles is the most successful male singles player in the tournament's history.
April 10, 2020 -
Roger Federer donates 1m Swiss Francs to combat COVID-19
Federer joins the list of sports personalities like Lionel Messi and Pep Guardiola, who have donated 1m euros each to help in the fight against Coronavirus.
March 25, 2020 -
Roger Federer to miss French Open due to knee surgery
It is worth noting that the Swiss international had been struggling with his injury at the Australian Open, where he lost in the semifinal to eventual winner Novak Djokovic.
February 20, 2020 -
Will approach Olympics like any other tournament: Novak Djokovic
Djokovic said he feels proud and honoured to be able to represent Serbia at the Tokyo 2020 games.
February 19, 2020 -
Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal play in front of record crown in Cape Town
The earlier record belonged to a crowd of 42,517 witnessed in another exhibition match between Roger Federer and Alexander Zverev in Mexico last November.
February 8, 2020 -
Novak Djokovic clear favourite to win Australian Open: Woodbridge
Djokovic will face the Austrian world number 5 Dominic Thiem in the final. Thiem had beaten German world number eight Alexander Zverev.
January 31, 2020 -
Australian Open 2020: No plans to retire, says Roger Federer following semis defeat to Novak Djokovic
Roger Federer also believes he is still a force to be reckoned with and accepted that he was confident of adding more to his tally of 20 Grand Slams.
January 30, 2020