The Swiss Maestro is considered one of the best tennis players of all time, as well as one of the greatest sportsmen of all time: an icon and legend of world sport. He also attributes his hand-eye coordination to the wide variety of sports he played as a child, including badminton and basketball. Instead, he served in civil defense and was required to pay 3% of his taxable income instead. However, in 2003 he was found unfit and subsequently not required to fulfill his military obligations. Like all male Swiss citizens, Federer was subject to compulsory military service in the Swiss armed forces.
Roger was a ball boy at his hometown Basel event, the Swiss Indoors in 19 He has one brother, his he older sister, Diana, mother of twins. Gallen, and his Afrikaner mother, Lynette Federer, is from Kempton Park, Gauteng, South Africa. His German-Swiss father, Robert Federer, is from Berneck in the canton of St. In addition to Swiss German, his mother tongue, he is fluent in German, English and French. He grew up in Riehen and then Münchenstein, on the outskirts of Basel and close to the French and German borders. He has an older sister named Diana and has dual Swiss and South African nationality. His father, Robert Federer, is Swiss from Berneck and his mother Lynette Durand is South African. Roger Federer was born in Basel on August 8, 1981.
