Federer gave credit to his wife for all the sacrifices she made to always put his needs and interests at the forefront. He has gone on record to say how her beign a player also helped her in understanding all that goes into making a player of Federer’s calibre. Roger Federer is often seen gushing about his wife. How much hand did Mirka have in Federer’s phenomenal career? I am still playing tournaments at 40-year-old and I find it difficult to stop,” he said. I told her as if it were the simplest thing in the world looking back on it today I get a weird feeling. Her career ended very early, and I myself advised her to end that pain. “My wife Mirka has suffered a lot due to her physical problems. In terms of grand slams, she reached the second round at 2000 Australian Open and the third round at the US Open in the following year. She has taken part in all four Grand Slam championships and had a career-high ranking of 76, on the WTA list. Her Grand Slam debut was in the 2009 French Open, but she could not get past the first round. She turned pro the same year as Federer, when she was 19 years old and Federer was 17. Mirka herself was a pro tennis player on the WTA tour when she met Federer. She even gave Mirka a racquet and arranged for her first tennis lesson. Her father had taken her to the tournament where Navratilova commented that she looked athletic and fit to become a tennis player. Her love affair with tennis began when she met tennis great, Czechoslovakian Martina Navratilova, in a tennis tournament at Filderstadt. Their family emigrated to Switzerland when Mirka was only 2. Mirka was born as Miroslava Vavrincová, in 1978 in Bojnice, in erstwhile Czechoslovakia.
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