By then it had an unbearable character, so that when train centers Ecubles of High Performance in the German area, or Bienne, in French, which launched broke rackets wealth of the soil to fail against a Coup.
Then he crossed his path Swedish coach Peter Lindgren, who tamed until he could control his anger. Coming from that and thanks to his excellent serve and volley, soon began to win local and national tournaments. He closed his junior stage in 1997, winning the Orange Bowl against Argentine Guillermo Coria. It was his first year on the ATP, which began as the 700th in the world, having been voted the "Best Junior" of the year.
Unstoppable rise
In 2001, confirmed that his projection was unstoppable. Reached the quarter-finals of the tournaments in 1999 did not pass the first round and also won his first title of the ATP tournament in Milan, played indoors, and finished 13th in the ranking. He finished the season as a player following the 2002 revelation, considering the years of its consolidation after winning the tournament in Vienna and Sydney, as well as the Masters Series Hamburg. Reached also the final of Miami, but failed at Wimbledon and Roland Garros, which prevented him from reaching second place in the ATP ranking. Placed sixth.
On September 13, 2004 officially became the champion of the Champions Race ATP classification in which the performance is scored in the most important tournaments of the year.Since the creation of the Open was in 1968, was the player who soon reached the first place in this classification.
In this way, Federer, who humiliated the great Australian player Lleyton Hewitt in the final of U.S. Open (6-0, 7-6 (7-3), 6-0) also grabbed first place in the world ranking (number one in the world) Andy Roddick, perhaps the only two players, alongside Spanish Juan Carlos Ferrero, who might overshadow him in this new decade of the century. In addition to winning the United States, won two Grand Slam (Australia and Wimbledon), five Masters Series (Indian Wells, Hamburg, Dubai, Gstaad and Toronto) and the Masters Cup in Houston.
Since abandoning its discoverer, Federer only uses fitness trainer, Pierre Paganini Swiss, and his physiotherapist, Czech Pavel Kovak. In his travels around the international circuit accompanying his parents and his girlfriend, former tennis player Miroslava Vavrinec of Slovak origin, who is in charge of press relations.
