Roger Federer is a tennis player from Basel, Switzerland. He grew up being interested in and excelling at sports, and had started playing both tennis and soccer by the time he was eight years old. Only three years later, he was rated one of the top three junior tennis players in his country. A year after this, he made the decision to focus solely on tennis, and soon became so focused and involved, he was playing up to three tournaments each month. At the same time, he was spent six hours of practice and three hours of conditioning each week. At age fourteen, Federer became the national junior champion of Switzerland, and from there, his luck and winnings grew. He is currently ranked number one on the ATP (Association of Tennis Professionals) tour, and had made it to the finals in the most recent U.S. Open ("Roger Federer Biography"). Federer has a long list of achievements that added to his success, starting with his decision to focus on tennis at a young age. When he became a national junior champion at age fourteen, he was also chosen to train at the Swiss National Tennis Center in Ecublens. By the age of sixteen, he had his first sponsorship, and joined the International Tennis Federation one year later. In his late teens, he won the junior Wimbledon title and the Orange Bowl, ending the year of 1998 as the ITF World Junior Tennis champion of the year ("Roger Federer Biography").

By mid- to late 1998, Federer decided to turn professional in the sport of tennis, and the choice was well chosen. In 2003, he was able to claim the title as the first Swiss male tennis player to win a Grand Slam title. In 2004, he ranked number two in the world in male tennis athletes, won...

Open, ATP Masters, and maintained his Wimbledon title. By 2005, he was able to climb to the number one spot in rank ("Roger Federer Biography"). This past year, Federer continued his tennis career in winning his 16th Grand Slam title at the Australia Open, years after claiming the title of the first Swiss man to win this opportunity ("Roger Federer: History")
Roger Federer has claimed that there are only three 'ingredients' that a person must have in order to become successful. First, he claims, is talent. This could be considered both a definitive and a non-definitive element of his success, as talent includes a person's capabilities and capacities for speed, precision, power, endurance, and strategy, as well as gracefulness, flow, and rhythm. Without the capabilities for these elements, a person does not have the potential to succeed in tennis. Assuming one has talent, he claims, one must have conditioning ability, mental ability, and skills ("Roger Federer on Three Ingredients for Success"). These ingredients have been significant in his professional career, such as his ability to hold the ATP number one position for a record breaking time of 237 consecutive weeks, or a total of 285 weeks total ("Profile: Roger Federer").

By conditioning, Federer means that one must be willing to fine tune their physical capacities. He targets "conditioning" to mean one's "physical shape," meaning the training and effort that one is willing to put into their success. This would be reflected by definitive elements such as strength, speed, precision, and power. He states that one needs to be mentally trained, which would be less of definitive and…