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The Roger Federer Story: Quest for Perfection |  | Author: Rene Stauffer
Publisher: New Chapter Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 49478
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 250
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 6.3 x 1.1
ISBN: 0942257391
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.342092
EAN: 9780942257397
ASIN: 0942257391
Publication Date: June 25, 2007
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Regarded by many as the greatest tennis player in the history of the sport, this authoritative biography is based on many exclusive interviews with Federer and his family as well as the author's experience covering the international tennis circuit for many years. Completely comprehensive, it provides an informed account of the Swiss tennis star from his early days as a temperamental player on the junior circuit, through his early professional career, to his winning major tennis tournaments, including the U.S. Open and Wimbledon. Readers will appreciate the anecdotes about his early years, revel in the insider's view of the professional tennis circuit, and be inspired by this champion's rise to the top of his game.
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 Unbelievably bad January 24, 2010
Auberginia
I downloaded this book onto my Kindle but after two chapters I deleted it for good. It reads like a collection of newspaper clippings, offering no insight into Federer as a person or the world of progessional tennis. It could have been put together by a 10 year old who doesn't know how to write English.
 This book is one of the best I've read yet. January 13, 2010
Keanau Fletcher
You can't say anything bad about this book. This book was a lot better than I expected it to be. It went into a lot further detail than I thought it would. I never knew that Roger Federer had trouble with his anger when he was a kid. He definitely proves that if you set your mind to something, you can achieve anything you want. He said he wanted to become number one in the world; he devoted most of his life to becoming number one. Roger started out like the rest of the tennis players out there, but just worked a lot harder than most of them have ever worked, both in the junior category and the ATP category.
I would definitely recommend this book to any tennis player wanting to improve his/her game and attitude toward the game. This book also shows how you can set your sights to anything you want, and you can achieve it. Every tennis player should definitely ready this book, I'd put it at the top of my list of all time favorites.
 Federer fan December 30, 2009
tennis (Walnut Creek, CA, USA)
Good if you are Federer fan. There are not too many book out there about Roger Federer.
Very Good, but not my Favourite Fed Bio September 26, 2009
Tennis nut (Australia)
Stauffer has done an extremely thorough job and I certainly recommend it, but I do prefer Chris Bowers' biography of Federer. It's got more background on his childhood and youth and discussion and anecdotes to show his personality. There's also the advantage that it's recently been updated (Spirit of a Champion), whereas Stauffer's stops in 2007. And so much has happened since then! Stauffer should do an update as he has encyclopediac knowledge of Federer and has also had more insider access to him.
Very Inspirational for the Young Tennis Player May 23, 2009
Gloria Oh (Tempe)
We bought this book for my son and all of us ended up reading it. The book has all of the scores from Roger's matches, but more importantly, I thought it did a good job of explaining how he got past his temper tantrums. He is still very emotional (he is so devoted to tennis), but when he is on the court he is entirely professional and that's what young players need to do, to control their emotions, to have their emotions work for them, in order to play their best tennis.
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