However, he explained that the sufferings of his wife Mirka Federer, and his parents, Robert and Lynette, compelled him to think about stepping away from tennis. Chatting about the Wimbledon 2021 ...

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Born in Basel, Switzerland, on August 8, 1981, his Swiss father, Robert Federer, and South African mother, Lynette Du Rand, encouraged him to play from an early age. His parents both worked for ...

Novak Djokovic has often been at the center of controversy for various reasons, but one of the most memorable incidents was his criticism of Roger Federer.

Federer who has mesmerized tennis fans for decades ... pictures of his Thailand trip from February with his family and parents. In one picture, he is posing with his wife on the beach, while ...

There is then the testimony of Federer’s parents, Robert and Lynette, about how their “restless” child learned to control his once volatile on-court behaviour. There is the footage of ...

from his wife Mirka Federer to his parents, who were also in attendance. He fought back tears as he shared the individual ways in which they lifted him up. "She could've stopped me a long ...

Two, I'm not happy any more. Three, now I'm angry. That's how it went," Federer said. "When I was 12 years old, I was just horrible. My parents were ashamed to watch my matches. I would play on a ...

Roger Federer had already secured his status as an all-time tennis great by the time Simon Briggs met him in 2017. He had won his first Wimbledon title 14 years earlier, in 2003, and broken Pete ...

It’s no secret that Roger Federer is the greatest tennis player ever. As David Foster Wallace wrote, he is “one of those rare, preternatural athletes who appear to be exempt, at least in part ...