“If God played tennis, he would hit a backhand like Federer ,” exclaimed Spanish journalist and writer Manuel Jabois after the Swiss legend beat Rafael Nadal 3-2 in the 2017 Australian Open final, his 18th title out of 20 Grand Slams.
It was called the “dream final”. A match that made viewers experience special emotions, when Federer dominated with 73 winners, compared to Nadal’s 35 points.
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Martina Navratilova, the 18-time Grand Slam women’s singles champion, commented: “He has no weaknesses. Roger has a wider range of shots than anyone. He knows which one to use at which moment. His selection is perfect.”
“Roger has no weaknesses and he can beat you in many ways: from the baseline or on serve, or at the net…” , the legendary Navratilova emphasized: “Federer has more options than the rest. His backhand is better than anyone else’s.”
Rod Laver, one of Australia’s sporting icons and a major influence in world tennis , praised : “I think Roger is the best of all time. The way he played for two decades, the consistency in his play, winning so many tournaments that it looked so easy. Everything he did was really amazing.”
One of Laver’s proudest moments was Federer’s victory over Marin Cilic in the 2018 Australian Open final . “It was an honor for me that he won his 20th Grand Slam title here, in the stadium that bears my name.”
Federer’s strokes are natural and harmonious movements, with no limitations or difficulties in his movements with the racket.
Roger’s skills have been compared to Michael Jordan’s unique basketball shots; Lionel Messi’s tricky dribbling; the way Jose Raul Capablanca (Cuban chess champion) controls the chessboard; Usain Bolt’s beautiful stride length and frequency; or Kareem Abdul Jabbar’s “skyhook” (ranked second in the list of greatest basketball players of all time, after Michael Jordan)…
They all have something in common: the techniques they perform create a general hypnotic effect on those who witness them.
Sports aristocrat
Federer is known for his great achievements and his aristocratic taste, both in style and form, despite the fact that he was quite unruly in the beginning.
His legendary story, in addition to 20 Grand Slams, includes being ranked world number 1 for 310 weeks, 1,251 official victories (lost 275), and 103 singles titles that brought him 130 million euros in prize money.
Federer is much more than an athlete. He is known off the court for his philanthropic work, which focuses on bringing sports to underprivileged children, as well as his role as a UNICEF ambassador.
Away from the world of sports , Federer is an artistic soul. He studies music, loves rock and plays the piano as well as he does his heart-stopping backhands.
A huge fan of the band AC/DC, Federer said he would love to be Lenny Kravitz – an American singer-songwriter who fuses many different genres – for a day, feeling his power by getting on stage with a guitar and a microphone.
From a young age, Federer loved sports, especially swimming, badminton, football and table tennis. Roger wanted to be a sportsman and tried his hand at football as well as hockey, before focusing on tennis from the age of 12.
At the age of 14, Federer stopped being a vegetarian and changed his diet to become a professional athlete. Boris Becker was his first idol when he entered the world of tennis.
As a star, like his friend and greatest rival Rafael Nadal, he was a tennis fanatic. Both demanded that the changing chair be comfortable and, if possible, have armrests. He did, however, always put a towel on the chair to make it softer. Water bottle on the left and mineral water bottle on the right.
Interestingly, in his first interview in 1999, Federer confessed his love for Pamela Anderson (Canadian supermodel and actress) and Cindy Crawford (one of the three most famous American supermodels of the 1990s).
As an adult, he married Mirka Vavrinec, whom he first met at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. They have two sets of twins together (Riva and Mayla Rose in 2009; Leo and Lenny in 2014).
Federer, who speaks perfect German, English and French, as well as expressing himself well in Italian and Swedish, has had a perfect career. After September 25, when the Laver Cup ends, the world will be without a sporting aristocrat.
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