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2018 Roger Federer tennis season
Full nameRoger Federer
Country Switzerland
Calendar prize money$0
Singles
Season record6–0
Current rankingNo. 2[1]
Ranking change from previous yearSteady
Grand Slam & significant results
Australian OpenF
Doubles
Season record0–0
Current rankingUnranked
Mixed doubles
Season record4–0
Last updated on: 26 January 2017.
Main article: Roger Federer

The 2018 Roger Federer tennis season began on 30 December 2017, with the start of the Hopman Cup.[2]

Year summary

Australian Open and early hard court season

Hopman Cup

As in 2017, Roger Federer paired with Belinda Bencic at the Hopman Cup, representing Switzerland. Federer defeated Yūichi Sugita, Karen Khachanov and Jack Sock, from Japan, Russia and United States respectively, all in straight sets, to help Switzerland advance to the final. With Federer defeating Alexander Zverev in three sets, they beat Germany 2–1 in the final to clinch Federer's second and Switzerland's third Hopman Cup title overall.[3]

Australian Open

See also: 2018 Australian Open – Men's Singles

Federer began his participation in the first major tournament of the year by defeating Aljaž Bedene, in three sets, in the first round. In the second round, Federer defeated Jan-Lennard Struff in straight sets to advance to the third round, where he defeated his first seeded opponent, Richard Gasquet, also in straight sets, advancing to the fourth round. Another straight set victory over Márton Fucsovics booked his spot in the quarter-finals, where he faced Tomáš Berdych. Federer defeated Berdych in three sets, advancing to the semi-finals where he defeated Chung Hyeon to make it to his thirtieth major final and his seventh on the Australian Open. He will face Marin Čilić.

All matches

This table chronicles all the matches of Roger Federer in 2018, including walkovers (W/O) which the ATP does not count as wins.

Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# P# DNQ A Z# PO G S B NMS NTI P NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze Olympic/Paralympic medal; (NMS) not a Masters tournament; (NTI) not a Tier I tournament; (P) postponed; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Singles matches

Tournament Match Round Opponent (seed or key) Rank Result Score
Australian Open
Melbourne, Australia
Grand Slam tournament
Hard, outdoor
15 – 28 January 2018
1 / 1383 1R Slovenia Aljaž Bedene 51 Win 6–3, 6–4, 6–3
2 / 1384 2R Germany Jan-Lennard Struff 55 Win 6–4, 6–4, 7–6(7–4)
3 / 1385 3R France Richard Gasquet (29) 31 Win 6–2, 7–5, 6–4
4 / 1386 4R Hungary Márton Fucsovics 80 Win 6–4, 7–6(7–3), 6–2
5 / 1387 QF Czech Republic Tomáš Berdych (19) 20 Win 7–6(7–1), 6–3, 6–4
6 / 1388 SF South Korea Chung Hyeon 58 Win 6–1, 5–2 ret.
7 / 1389 F Croatia Marin Čilić (6) 6

Hopman Cup matches

Singles

Tournament Match Round Opponent (seed or key) Rank Result Score
Hopman Cup
Perth, Australia
Hopman Cup
Hard, indoor
30 December 2017 – 6 January 2018
1 / 21 RR Japan Yūichi Sugita 40 Win 6–4, 6–3
3 / 23 RR Russia Karen Khachanov 45 Win 6–3, 7–6(10–8)
5 / 25 RR United States Jack Sock 8 Win 7–6(7–5), 7–5
7 / 27 W Germany Alexander Zverev 4 Win 6–7(4–7), 6–0, 6–2

Mixed doubles

Tournament Match Round Opponent (seed or key) Rank Result Score
Hopman Cup
Perth, Australia
Hopman Cup
Hard, indoor
30 December 2017 – 6 January 2018
Partner: Switzerland Belinda Bencic
2 / 22 RR Japan Naomi Osaka / Japan Yūichi Sugita – / – Win 2–4, 4–1, 4–3(5–1)
4 / 24 RR Russia Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova / Russia Karen Khachanov – / – Win 4–3(5–1), 3–4(3–5), 4–1
6 / 26 RR United States CoCo Vandeweghe / United States Jack Sock – / – Win 4–3(5–3), 4–2
8 / 28 W Germany Angelique Kerber / Germany Alexander Zverev – / – Win 4–3(5–3), 4–2

Exhibition matches

Singles

Tournament Match Round Opponent (seed or key) Rank Result Score
Match for Africa 5
San Jose, USA

Hard, indoor
5 March 2018
1 N/A United States Jack Sock

Doubles

Tournament Match Round Opponent (seed or key) Rank Result Score
Match for Africa 5
San Jose, USA

Hard, indoor
5 March 2018
Partner: United States Bill Gates
1 N/A United States Savannah Guthrie / United States Jack Sock – / –

Schedule

Per Roger Federer, this is his current 2018 schedule (subject to change).[4]

Singles schedule

Date Tournament Location Category Surface Prev.
result 		Prev.
points 		New
points 		Result
15 January 2018–
28 January 2018		 Australian Open Melbourne (AUS) Grand Slam Hard W 2000
Race to London points 0 0 Steady 0 difference
Total year-end points 9605

Yearly records

Head-to-head matchups

ATP and Grand Slam sanctioned matches

Roger Federer has a 6–0 ATP match win-loss record in the 2018 season. His record against players who were part of the ATP Rankings Top Ten at the time of their meetings is 0–0. Bold indicates player was ranked top 10 at time of at least one meeting. The following list is ordered by number of wins:

ITF sanctioned matches

His official ITF sanctioned season record for 2018 is 10–0. While these are official sanctioned matches per the ITF, the ATP does not count them in their totals. The extra ITF matches are as follows:

Finals

Singles (1 pending)

Category
Grand Slam (0–0)
ATP Finals (0–0)
ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0)
ATP World Tour 500 (0–0)
ATP World Tour 250 (0–0)
Titles by surface
Hard (0–0)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (0–0)
Titles by setting
Outdoor (0–0)
Indoor (0–0)
Result No. Date Category Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Pending 96./50. 28 January 2018 Grand Slam Australian Open, Australia Hard Croatia Marin Čilić

Team competitions: 1 (1 title)

Result No. Date Category Tournament Surface Partners Opponents Score
Winner 3. 6 January 2018 Hopman Cup Hopman Cup, Australia Hard (i) Switzerland Belinda Bencic Germany Angelique Kerber
Germany Alexander Zverev 		2–1

Earnings

  • Bold font denotes tournament win
Event Prize money Year-to-date
Australian Open
$0

Figures in United States dollars (USD) unless noted.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Rankings | Singles | ATP World Tour".
  2. ^ "Roger Federer to lead strong field at Mastercard Hopman Cup", Hopman Cup, 4 October 2017. Retrieved on 19 January 2018.
  3. ^ "Roger Federer & Belinda Bencic win Hopman Cup for Switzerland", BBC Sport, 6 January 2018. Retrieved on 8 January 2018.
  4. ^ Winter, Lewis. "Roger Federer to make major schedule change in 2018 if he stops doing this - Mark Petchey", Express, 26 October 2017. Retrieved on 20 November 2017.
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