He belongs from the heavenly country Switzerland and does not only have the sports ability but also the dashing looks, and charms, because of which he has a huge female fans following.
Roger is the son of a Swiss-German man Robert Federer and a South African woman Lynette Federer. He spent his childhood and grew up in a small Swiss town Basel, very near to the border of France and Germany.
Roger can speak altogether of three languages fluently, which are German, French, and English. He is completely familiar with all three languages because he is seen conducting various press conferences in all of these languages. Though he considers German to be his main language, and mostly prefers speaking German.
As he is himself grown learning a mixture of three languages, he has faced one common question all his life and that is about the correct pronunciation of his first name. To this he has always answered that his name has been pronounced in the English language always because of the fact that his mother is from South Africa.
Roger has himself accepted at various places that when he was a young boy, he was very fussy and was known to throw tantrums in the court. Because of this attitude he was several times driven out of the court as a punishment. He has also admitted that he used to skip off the court practice very often. Today we have a completely different, well-polished, cool and calm playing style Roger in front of us.
He was associated with FC Basel which was his hometown club, he was a member off in his early life and the dedication to it is so sincere that he still continues to support it enthusiastically, and is also a fan of the Italian club AS Roma.
Roger is also known to be a very consistent and fervent soccer player in his early days of life. There was a point in his life where he thought of professionally choosing soccer has his career but then he got more inclined towards a career in tennis.
Roger first tried playing tennis when he was only six years old. The initial curiosity turned into his interest when he started having group lessons at the age of nine. He then went on taking private coaching to further enhance his abilities at the age of ten.
It was at the age of 14 when it started to appear to the world that he had this gifted innate sill for tennis when he accomplished the title of the champion of all the groups of tennis in Switzerland at this tender age. He was then chosen in the SNTC, Swiss National Tennis Centre at Ecublens to be trained. In the year 1996 he joined the junior tennis circuit.
His final year as a junior was in 1998, he won the juniors Wimbledon title and the Orange Bowl. His first world recognition then followed and he was awarded the title of the
World Junior Tennis champion for the year.
As every individual young child he used to idolize his favorite tennis player Marcelo Rios Amongst his favorites are also Stefan Edberg and Boris Becker.
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