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Roger Federer. Week 3

  • Jahzeel Cordero Cordero
  • 9 jun 2015
  • 2 Min. de lectura

Another important to achieve dominate the grammatical structures of English, activity was an exhibition about the biography of someone you admire. In my case I chose to who is considered the best tennis player of all history: Roger Federer. The purpose of the presentation was to use past tense verbs, in addition to developing public speaking in this language. Then he attached the information used for the exhibition:

Roger Federer

Roger Federer was born in Basel, August 8, 1981, he is a Swiss professional tennis player, currently ranked second in the ATP ranking. He owns numerous records achieved through 16 years of career.

Roger Federer married in 2009, with Mirka Vavrinec. In the same year both were first-time parents of twins (women). The previous year were parents again but this time of twins (men).

Some achievements to tennis level are:

  • In 2009 he became the top winner of Grand Slam titles with 17 trophies.

  • In 2011 he won his sixth Masters Tournament (in this tournament just play the best 8 players in the world).

  • In 2008 and in 2012 obtained Olympic medals, of gold and silver respectively.

  • In November 2012, according to the Forbes ranking, Roger Federer was listed with his friend and golfer Tiger Woods as the world's most valuable athlete.

  • In 2013 he became the player with the most weeks at No. 1 in the world with a total of 302.

  • In 2014 he participated in his final Grand Slam # 25.

  • Until June 2015 he won 23 ATP Masters 1000 titles.

  • In total Roger Federer has won 85 titles, 1017 games and has more than 120 records in tennis.

Humanitarian work:

  • In 2003 he created the Federer Foundation to help children in South Africa.

  • In 2005, he auctioned a racket and funds were victims of Hurricane Katrina.

  • It was named UNICEF ambassador since 2005.

  • In 2010 he organized an event to help earthquake victims in Haiti.

  • In 2011 he was named the second most reliable and respected person in the world, being surpassed only by former South African President Nelson Mandela.

  • In December 2014 organized the second version of "Match for Africa" where he played an exhibition against Stanilas Wawrinka in Switzerland

 
 
 

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