Roger Federer met his long-time girlfriend, Mirka Vavrinec, at Syndey 2000 Olympics, when they both were representing Switzerland. And ever since then, they are inseparable. They got married on April 11, 2009. "It was a beautiful spring day and an incredibly joyous occasion," he said. They honeymooned in Monte Carlo.
Miroslava (Mirka) Vavrinec was born on First April, 1978 in Bojnice, Slovakia. By the way, Federer was born on 8th August, 1981. Federer was born in Binningen, near Basel, to Swiss national Robert Federer and South Africa-born Lynette Du Rand.
When Mirka was 2 years old her family moved to Switzerland. When Mirka was nine, her parents introduced her to game of tennis in Germany. There she met the tennis legend Martina Navratilova. Martina thought the girl hot a nice athletic body and suggested her parents she should try tennis. Martina sent a racquet to Mirka and personally arranged for her to have her first lesson.
Martina was right about Mirka, and by 2000, Mirka had become one of the Top 100 players in the world and was a part of the Olympic Switzerland team, which is where she met Federer. She was forced to retire the following year because of an injury to her achilles tendon. She is now his public relations manager.
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