FROM BALLSTAND-BOYOUTTO CHAMPION SWISS
Federer quickly rose through the ranks and 2004 was dubbed the “Roger Federer tennis season” – he won three Grand Slam titles, the first person to do so in one season since Sweden’s Mats Wilander in 1988. He hit the top soon after when he beat Marat Safin from Russia at the Australian Open. “To win the Australian Open and become No 1 in the world is a dream come true,” he said at
the time.