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A versatile all-court player, Federer’s perceived effortlessness made him highly popular among
tennis fans. Originally lacking self-control as a junior, he transformed his on-court demeanor to
become well-liked for his graciousness, winning the Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship Award 13
times. He also won the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year award a record five times. Outside
of competition, Federer played an instrumental role in the creation of the Laver Cup team
competition. He is also an active philanthropist. He established the Roger Federer Foundation,
which targets impoverished children in southern Africa, and has raised funds in part through the
Match for Africa exhibition series. By the end of his career, Federer was routinely one of the top
ten highest-paid athletes in any sport, and ranked first among all athletes with $100 million in
endorsement income in 2020.Federer made his ATP debut at the 1998 Swiss Open Gstaad in
his home country of Switzerland losing to Lucas Arnold Ker in the first round. Later that year, he
won his first ATP match in Toulouse against Guillaume Raoux. He got a wildcard into the 1998
Swiss Indoors and lost in the first round to 4th seed and former world number 1 Andre Agassi.
Federer finished his career as a 10-time champion of the tournament.
Federer entered the top 100 ranking for the first time on 20 September 1999 and started at the
1999 Marseille Open defeating the reigning champion of the 1998 French Open, Spaniard
Carlos Moyá. His first final came at the Marseille Open in 2000, where he lost to fellow Swiss
Marc Rosset.The 2006 season was statistically the best season of Federer’s career. In
November 2011, Stephen Tignor, chief editorial writer for Tennis.com, ranked Federer’s 2006
season as statistically the second-best season of all time during the Open Era, behind Rod
Laver’s Grand Slam year of 1969.Federer won 12 singles titles (the most of any player since
Thomas Muster in 1995 and John McEnroe in 1984) and had a match record of 92–5 (the most
wins since Ivan Lendl in 1982). Federer reached the finals in an astounding 16 of the 17
tournaments he entered during the season.In June 2009 Federer won his first French Open,
giving him a championship in each of the four Grand Slam tournaments over the course of his
career. Additionally, the win was his 14th Grand Slam title, which tied Federer with Sampras for
the most in all time. The following month at Wimbledon, Federer defeated American Andy
Roddick in a thrilling marathon five-set match (5–7, 7–6, 7–6, 3–6, 16–14) to win his sixth
Wimbledon championship and his record 15th career Grand Slam title; he subsequently
regained the world number one ranking. In January 2010 he won the Australian Open, defeating
Andy Murray of Great Britain. Federer again defeated Murray in 2012 to win his record-tying
seventh career Wimbledon title. A month later the two men faced off in the gold medal match at
the London Olympics. This time, however, Federer lost to Murray and had to settle for a silver
medal.Federer endured an injury-riddled 2013 season, and in 2014 he reached just one Grand
Slam final (a loss at Wimbledon to Novak Djokovic). He did still manage a career highlight that
year by leading Switzerland to its first-ever Davis Cup victory. In 2015 he appeared in the
Wimbledon and U.S. Open finals but lost to Djokovic both times. Shortly after losing in the
Wimbledon semifinals in July 2016, he withdrew from the remainder of that tennis season
because of a persistent knee injury.
Federer entered the first Grand Slam tournament of 2017, the Australian Open, as the
17th-ranked men’s player but shocked the tennis world by winning the singles title in an epic
five-set final against Nadal. Federer continued his resurgent play at that year’s Wimbledon,
where he did not lose a single set during the tournament and won a record-breaking eighth
Wimbledon title. Federer’s hot streak continued into 2018 when he won his sixth career
Australian Open singles title. With the victory, Federer set a record for most Grand Slam men’s
singles titles (20); that mark was later matched by Nadal and Djokovic, and in 2022 Nadal
became the first to surpass it. Federer reached the semifinals at the 2019 French Open and
advanced to the final at that year’s Wimbledon, where he lost an epic 4-hour 57-minute match
(the longest final match in Wimbledon history) to Djokovic.
After losing in the semifinals at the 2020 Australian Open, Federer had two knee surgeries that
caused him to miss the rest of the season. Although he returned in 2021, his play was limited.
However, he did compete at Wimbledon, where he lost in straight sets in the quarterfinals. That
proved to be his last Grand Slam event. Federer was again sidelined by knee problems, and in
September 2022 he announced that he would be retiring after the Laver Cup. Later that month
he played in his final competitive match, a doubles event in which he paired with Nadal; they
lost.
In addition to tennis, Federer was involved in various philanthropic causes, with a particular
interest in South Africa, his mother’s home country. In 2003 he established the Roger Federer
Foundation, which sought to help underprivileged children in Switzerland and southern Africa,
primarily through educational projects.
[10/15, 22:27] SKILL INDIA: Thomas Golubic is a Los Angeles-based Emmy-nominated music
supervisor, Grammy-nominated record producer, and DJ. His music supervision credits include
the AMC series Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, Better Call Saul, Halt and Catch Fire, the
HBO series Six Feet Under, Netflix series Grace & Frankie and Love, the Amazon series
Sneaky Pete and the Showtime series Ray Donovan, among many other film & television
projects. In 2017, he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music
Supervision in Season 3 of Better Call Saul. Since 2017, Thomas has served as President of
the Guild of Music Supervisors, and is a founding member of the organization. The Guild twice
awarded Thomas with “Best Music Supervision in a Television Drama” for his work on Breaking
Bad.
He was twice nominated for a Grammy awards for producing volumes one and two of the Six
Feet Under soundtrack album in 2003 and 2006. Alongside former partner Gary Calamar, he
was responsible for the use of Sia’s “Breathe Me” in the final scene of the series. It is
considered one of the most memorable uses of music in television, and launched Sia’s music
career in America. Thomas is also responsible for producing numerous soundtrack albums for
Better Call Saul, The Walking Dead, Halt and Catch Fire and Breaking Bad, also writing the liner
notes for the Breaking Bad 10th Anniversary 5-Album Box. Additionally, he has assembled
various remix projects for EMI-Capitol Records and MGM, including reinterpretations of Peggy
Lee, The Beach Boys, Henry Mancini’s Pink Panther theme and EMI’s Christmas Classics remix
compilation ‘Merry Mixmas’.
His formative years, musically speaking, were spent as a DJ, music programmer and on-air host
for tastemaker LA radio station KCRW 89.9 FM. After ending his 10-year residency at KCRW,