Roger Federer He is, at 38 years old, the male tennis player with the record of Grand Slam titles, 20, and weeks in the world number one (310). It has prolonged its trajectory in that mutual feedback chain that it has ended up building with two other phenomena of world sport and tennis in particular, Rafa Nadal and Novak Djokovic, they keep pushing to get to their numbers and beat them.
Roger Federer and Mirka Vavrinec, during the recent confinement in their Alpine home in Switzerland and who made a donation of one million Swiss francs for the coronavirus
Federer represents for most fans the perfection on a tennis court, for his easy and clean style, technically a continuous virguerity and moving with the agility and speed of a gazelle. In addition, he is noted as a gentleman of the courts by his excellent etiquette in the modes. Each year he receives the award for the most voted tennis player by fans in the popular poll launched by the ATP.
Married to the former Swiss professional tennis player, born Slovak, Miroslava Vavrinec , and father of four children. Complete her idyllic image with this family print. And if anyone has a lot to do with this image, it is her, ‘Mirka’, Roger Federer’s wife since April 11, 2009, mother of the twins Myla and Charlene (July 23, 2009) and the twins Leo and Lenny (May 6, 2014).
[+] Roger and Mirka were caught at the beginning of the year in a love attitude rarely seen on camera:
“It pays for me to change a ton of diapers in order to live my dream with Mirka”
“I refuse to sleep in bed without my wife. We always wanted to have children, but my dream was to be with her in the same room, not in another room or on another floor, it compensates me to change a ton of diapers in order to live my dream with Mirka “, said Roger Federer in an interview to the ‘The Sunday Times’ on how to make the eve of an important game compatible with babies nearby.
Roger Federer and Mirka Vavrinec take a selfie as the tennis player leaves the court after defeating John Millman in a marathon at the 2020 Australian Open
“If my wife says to stop, I’ll stop,” repeated Federer as one of the reasons that could put an end to his long and successful career. One more example of the sentimental, and also professional, weight that Mirka Vavrinec has, a fundamental figure in the reconversion of a Roger entering the adult world of the ATP Tour being addicted to video games, suffering uncontrolled outbursts of rage, walking away from discipline. A genius for channeling, maturing physically, tactically and emotionally.
Mirka Vavrinec, in a picture at Wimbledon
“At the age of 16, you could already see him as an artist, creative. He had smooth movements. Physical development was lacking and acquiring more fundamentals, but you could see that it could be good. Although nobody could think that he could win twenty Grand Slam titles “, recalls the coach Sven Groeneveld, then in charge of Swiss tennis. Federer left his native Basel as a child to go to the national tennis center of his country, in the French canton, a language he did not master then because he added the native English of his South African mother to the German of the area.
The Dutch coach Sven Groeneveld recalled in a Live of the German language domain tennisnet.com his meeting with the young Federer, who decided that the South African Peter carter take care of your training when you are in Switzerland and the Swedish Peter lundgren introduce him to the ATP Tour, since he had brought more elite tennis players, such as the Chilean Marcelo Rios.
Although Groeneveld pointed out as key “the Sydney Olympics, when he started dating Mirka ”. She and Roger had the first kiss, as they would later confess, at the 2000 Olympics in the Australian city, where they both competed for Switzerland. The one from Basel was one step away from the medal, but it was more vital to ignore his closest people on a daily basis, the entire coaching staff.
[+] Young Roger and Mirka defending the colors of Switzerland at the 2002 Hopman Cup:
“We all told him not to do it, that he was very young. He made the best decision of his life “
“He asked everyone if he should be with Mirka. We all told him not to do it, that he was very young, that it was better to remain free. He did not do it and made the best decision of his life “, recalls Groeneveld, underlining that” Roger was not emotionally formed, but all this stopped there “, when the woman who appears in the big events next to the components of the current coaching staff, with the Swiss fireproof Severin luthi, Davis Cup captain and personal friend of the family, and currently the Croatian Ivan Ljubicic.
Mirka signed her best WTA ranking later, in 2001, being the 76th in the world. Injuries kept her from the circuit, until she hung up her racket in the spring of 2002, due to physical limitations but also because she decided to focus on developing a rough diamond that she immediately polished: Roger Federer inaugurated his ATP record in Milan 2001 and the Grand Slam in Wimbledon 2003.
Mirka has acquired so much prominence, which has also caused incidents with her husband’s rivals, as when she had them with Stan wawrinka in a duel at the Masters, just days before they joined forces to win the Davis cup. Roger and Stan solved it on the train trip to Lille.
Mirka Vavrinec and Severin Luthi, at Roland Garros