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Roger Federer net worth and total career earnings: Roger Federer is a Swiss-born professional tennis player who has a net worth of $450 million. As of this writing his total ATP career earnings are $129 million. That’s the second-highest amount earned in tennis history behind the roughly $145 million earned by Novak Djokovic. On top of his tournament earnings Roger has earned at least $600 million from endorsements during his career so far. He is on pace to be one a very few professional athletes who have earned $1 billion from their sport (winnings and endorsements). Early Life and Career: Roger Federer was born on August 8th, 1981 in Basel, Switzerland to parents Robert and Lynette. Federer began playing tennis with his parents and older sister Diana at a very early age and quickly showed signs that he had great talent for the game. At the age of eight Roger joined the Basel junior tennis program and at ten he met Australian player Peter Carter who saw the youngster’s potential. Carter and Federer trained together for the next four years until, at the age of 13, Roger accepted an invitation to attend Switzerland’s national tennis training center. At the time, the training center was located two hours away from Roger’s home in a part of Switzerland that spoke mostly French. Federer trained there for three years until a new facility was opened closer to his home in Biel. Peter Carter was one of the instructors at the new training center and his guidance helped Federer quickly rise up the world’s top junior rankings. As an amateur, Roger won the Wimbledon junior singles and double titles and was eventually the number one ranked ITF player in the world. Pro Career: Soon after turning pro in 1999, Roger reached the semi-finals of a tournament in Vienna. After a few more high profile wins, Roger became the youngest member of the ATP’s top 100. In 2000 Roger represented Switzerland at the Olympics. He did not win any medals, but surprised many by reaching the semifinals. He was ultimately defeated by Tommy Haas and Arnaud Di Pasquale. In 2001 Roger’s potential came to full bloom when he won his first ATP singles title. He followed this triumph at the Davis Cup where he and his fellow Swiss teammates defeated the United States. All of these successes led to the press coining the term “Federer Express” in their headlines. Roger went on to win his first two ATP doubles titles and end the season ranked #13 in singles. One night Roger received many missed phone calls from his Coach Peter Lundgren. By the time he finally picked up the messages, Roger found out that his former mentor and friend Peter Carter had died. Carter’s death shook Roger to the core. He realized that he had not lived up to anything that Carter had taught him as a tennis player and even a man. Roger decided at that moment that it was time to step up his game on and off the court. Roger Federer would eventually become the number one ranked player in the world, a title he held for a record 237 consecutive weeks from February 2004 to August 2008. In 2012, Roger lost his first singles medal to Andy Murray at the London 2012 Olympic Games. Federer, in 2013, injured his back and struggled to bounce back, causing his rankings to fall. However, he regained some of his strength and went on to defeat Richard Gasquet to clinch the Davis Cup in Switzerland. He lost the Wimbledon match in 2014 to Novak Djokovic in the final, but later that year defeated both Djokovic and Andy Murray to win the Cincinnati Masters for the seventh time. At the US Open, Roger advanced to his first final since 2009. In the final, Federer was once again defeated by Djokovic. He announced in December 2016 that he would enter the ATP World Tour season with a new coaching team. He participated in the 2016 Australian open and, once again, was defeated by Djokovic in four sets. He sustained a knee injury and had surgery to repair torn ligaments. In July of that year, he announced he would miss the 2016 Olympics and the remainder of the season in order to recover from his knee injury. In 2017, Federer played in the Hopman Cup and the Australian Open in January 2017. He won the Australian Open, defeating Rafael Nadal in the final, and it also marked his 100th match at the games. Federer lost in the semifinals to Borna Coric in the 2018 Shanghai Masters. In 2018, Roger played the French Open for the first time in four years. He got to the semifinals but lost to 11-time champion Nadal. He skipped the Olympics in Rio that year, due to recovering from yet another knee injury. In 2020, Roger began his season at the 2020 Australian Open, and lost his semifinal match to Djokovic and sustained another knee injury. He subsequently withdrew from further competitions, citing needed time for his knee to recover. Achievements: As of this writing, Roger Federer has won Wimbledon eight times, the Australian Open six times, the French Open once and the US Open five times in a row. He has won the Grand Slam tournament 20 times, (and was the first men’s singles player to have reached ten Grand Slam tournament finals in a row), more than any other men’s singles player. Federer was ranked among the top eight tennis players in the world for 14 consecutive years, from 2002–2016. Roger has won the ATP Player of the Year five times and has also become the ITF World Champion five times in a row. In 2016, Federer ranked number one on a list of the most recognizable people in Switzerland, even surpassing the likes of William Tell and Albert Einstein. Federer is hugely popular in the sporting world and has often been called a legend and the Greatest of All Time (GOAT.) Tennis.com named him the greatest male player of the open era. He was named Swiss Sports Personality of the Year seven times consecutively. Federer won the BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year award four times. It’s been said that Roger Federer helped lead a revival and gain the sport of tennis renewed attention and interest. There was increased interest in the game of tennis in his heyday, leading to higher revenues for many venues across the sport. Earnings and Endorsements: Federer has become one of the highest-paid athletes in the world both on and off the court. Between June 2016 and June 2017, Federer earned an estimated $71.5 million, of which $65 million came from endorsements. In 2018 Roger signed a 10-year, $300 million contract with Japanese apparel brand Uniqlo. Between June 2017 and June 2018, Federer earned $77.2 million. Between June 2018 and June 2019 he earned $94 million. Of that amount, roughly $86 million came from endorsements with companies like Credit Suisse, Rolex and Mercedes Benz. Roger earns more from endorsements than any other athlete. Roger Federer’s Career Earnings: 1998: $28,000 1999: $225,000 2000: $624,000 2001: $865,000 2002: $1.995 million 2003: $4 million 2004: $6.3 million 2005: $6.1 million 2006: $8.3 million 2007: $10.1 million 2008: $5.8 million 2009: $8.8 million 2010: $7.7 million 2011: $6.4 million 2012: $8.5 million 2013: $2.4 million 2014: $9.3 million 2015: $5 million 2016: $1.5 million 2017: $6 million 2018: $8.6 million 2019: $5 million Total career earnings: $129 million Personal Life: Federer married Women’s Tennis Association player Miroslava Vavrinec (now Federer) in April 2009 at Wenkenhof Villa near Basel, Switzerland. They met in 2000 at the Sydney Olympics while they were both playing on Team Switzerland. They immediately began dating upon meeting. Miroslava gave birth to identical twin girls in 2009, and the couple had another set of identical twins–this time boys–in 2014. Philanthropy: Roger established the Roger Federer Foundation in 2003 with the goal of helping disadvantaged children and increasing their access to both education and sport. Federer has been a long time supporter of the South Africa-Swiss charity IMBEWU, which has similar goals to his foundation and also focuses on social and health awareness of disadvantaged youth. In 2005, Federer auctioned his US Open racquet off and donated the earnings to victims of Hurricane Katrina. In response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Federer collaborated with other players to put together a charity event during the Australian Open. All proceeds went to the earthquake victims.

George Foreman net worth: George Foreman is a retired American boxer and highly successful entrepreneur who has a net worth of $300 million. George Foreman has the net worth of a champ but you’d be surprised to learn how little of his fortune actually comes from boxing. In fact after turning professional in 1969 and stacking up an impressive career of 76 wins out of 81 fights, by the 1980s Foreman had a relatively small net worth of $5 million. Fortunately, thanks to a very popular grill that bears his name, Foreman is a very wealthy man today. A two-time World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, Olympic Gold Medalist, multimillionaire entrepreneur and born-again Christian minister, George Foreman represents an amazing story of success and perseverance. Early Life: The name George Foreman means different things to different generations. Some folks will recall the young 24-year old Texan who delivered a TKO to the undefeated Smokin’ Joe Frazier in 1973. The same fighter whose first defeat was to Muhammad Ali in the 1974 Rumble in the Jungle. The Rumble was a historic battle that took place in Zaire and became the subject of the Oscar-winning documentary When We Were Kings. If you are younger, George Foreman is probably better known as that jolly guy on TV who sells Meineke mufflers and the George Foreman Lean Mean Fat Reducing Grilling Machine. George Foreman was born in Marshall, Texas on January 10, 1949. He grew up in Houston with six siblings. He was raised by J.D. Foreman, but his biological father was Leroy Moorehead. George explained in his autobiography that he was a troubled youth. He dropped out of school at the age of fifteen and became a mugger. A year later, he wanted to change his life and convinced his mother to sign him up for Job Corps. He wanted his GED through Job Corps and trained to become a carpenter and bricklayer. He began training for boxing after a move to Pleasanton, California. Boxing Career: Foreman started his boxing career out with a bang, winning a gold medal in the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games in the boxing/heavyweight division. He defeated Jonas Cepulis, a 29 year old veteran, 10 years older than Foreman and with a 12 year career already under his belt. Foreman walked around the ring carrying a US flag and bowing to the crowd after his victory. He has said that earning the gold medal was the achievement he was most proud of in his entire career. Foreman turned pro in 1969, winning 13 fights that year, 11 of them total knockouts. In 1970, Foreman won all 12 of his bouts, and the next year, he won seven more fights by knockout. He continued his impressive winning streak until 1974, when he faced tougher opponents such as Ken Norton and Muhammad Ali. For his fight against Ali, he traveled to Zaire, and the match was being touted as The Rumble in the Jungle. Ali defeated Foreman and became the first boxer to knock him down. Unable to secure another victory, Foreman retired in 1977 after a devastating loss to Jimmy Young. By now, Foreman was sitting pretty on a pile of money he had made from his historic matches. Unfortunately by 1987 nearly all of that $5 million fortune from boxing was gone through bad investments and an overly extravagant lifestyle. George was literally on the verge of total bankruptcy, in a recent interview he was quoted as saying; “It was that scary because you hear about people being homeless and I was only fractions, fractions from being homeless.” So Foreman started boxing again, staging an impressive comeback that lasted into the late 1990s after he had also become a boxing commentator for HBO. George Foreman officially retired for good in 1997, at the age of 48. His final record was 76 wins (68 knockouts) and just five losses. Foreman was inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame and International Boxing Hall of Fame. He has been ranked the eighth greatest heavyweight in history. George Foreman Grill: Foreman stated, upon coming back from retirement in the 90s, that his success was owed to a healthier lifestyle and nutrition. In 1994, he was approached by Salton, Inc, which was looking for a spokesperson for its fat-reducing grill. Foreman obliged, and by 2009 the Grill had sold over 100 million units. Foreman has never confirmed how much he has made from the endorsement, but we know that Salton paid him $138 million in 1999 for the right to use his name. Previous to that, he was being paid 40 percent of the profits on each grill sold, earning him roughly $4.5 million a month in payouts at its peak. It is estimated that he has made over $200 million from the grill, substantially more than he earned as a boxer. Other Pursuits: Foreman is a partner in the Panther Racing Indy Car team. He has authored five books and he still makes the occasional appearance on TV (guest on The 700 Club, judge on the American Inventor) and film (cameo in Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian). Personal Life: His hard work pays for a 40 acre estate in Texas where he lives with his fifth wife Mary Joan (married in 1985) and several of his twelve kids. He had four previous marriages: Adrienna Calhoun from 1971–1974, Cynthia Lewis from 1977-1979, Sharon Goodson from 1981-1982, and Andrea Skeete from 1982-1985. All five of his sons are named George Edward Foreman and his daughters have George as a middle name (except for one daughter named Georgetta). Foreman has insisted that all of his children obtain a college degree, but that hasn’t stopped a few of them from hopping in the boxing ring, diploma in hand. George III is following in his father’s boxing footsteps by recently winning his first professional boxing match. 31-year-old daughter Freeda had a brief career trading jabs, with a record of 4-1. Daughter Natalie has taken a different path and is an aspiring singer. While his brood is busy building careers of their own, papa George continues to find new ways to grow his empire.

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