Salary Cuts For Messi, Ronaldo Made Roger Federer The Highest Paid Athlete – Forbes

Roger Federer is now the Highest-Paid Athlete in the world, according to a recent Forbes list.

Federer edged out Lionel Messi and Cristiano Rinaldo, Neymar, and LeBron James to be number one after earning a total of $106.3 million over the past 12 months, making him the first tennis player to top the list.

According to Forbes’ Senior Editor Kurt Badenhausen, Roger sealed this achievement after the salary cuts that affected footballers like Messi and Ronaldo amid the coronavirus pandemic.

He added that the tennis player is the perfect pitchman for companies and this has led to an increase in his revenue on a yearly basis.

His words, “The coronavirus pandemic triggered salary cuts for soccer stars Messi and Ronaldo, clearing the way for a tennis player to rank as the world’s highest-paid athlete for the first time,”

“Roger Federer is the perfect pitchman for companies, resulting in an unparalleled endorsement portfolio of blue-chip brands worth $100 million a year for the tennis great.”

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Roger Federer is a Swiss professional tennis player who is ranked world No. 4 in men’s singles tennis by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP).

He has won 20 Grand Slam singles titles—the most in history for a male player—and has held the world No. 1 spot in the ATP rankings for a record total of 310 weeks (including a record 237 consecutive weeks) and was the year-end No. 1 five times, including four consecutive. Federer, who turned professional in 1998, was continuously ranked in the top 10 from October 2002 to November 2016.

Federer was born in Basel, Switzerland. His father, Robert Federer, is a Swiss-German from Berneck in the Canton of St. Gallen, and his mother, Lynette Federer (née Durand), is an Afrikaner from Kempton Park, Gauteng, in South Africa. Federer has one sibling, his older sister, Diana, who is the mother of a set of twins. Since his mother is South African, he holds both Swiss and South African citizenship.

He grew up in nearby Birsfelden, Riehen, and then Münchenstein, close to the French and German borders, and he speaks Swiss German, Standard German, English, and French fluently, as well as functional Italian and Swedish; Swiss German is his native language. Federer served as a ball boy at his hometown Basel tournament, the Swiss Indoors, in 1992 and 1993.