Press release
Roger Federer is the global star who emerged from our very midst. Mad about ball sports from a young age, his playfulness and passion pushed him fur-ther and further – and on to dizzying heights. His sporting exploits are well-known, but who is the man behind them? For the last twenty years, Zurich-based journalist Simon Graf has followed Federer’s triumphant journey through the great tennis arenas of the world for the Swiss press.
Here, he an-swers the key questions: how did Federer become a Zen master of the courts? What part did his parents and his wife Mirka have to play? How did he maintain his love for the sport over all these years? Why does he owe eternal thanks to his rival, Rafael Nadal? How did he stay so normal? And what can we learn from him?
Over the years, the author has held countless interviews with Federer and people from his family and sporting life and now shows him from all of his many sides – as a hot-headed teenager, a tennis genius, son, husband and father, an inspiration, strategist, manager of his own talent, victor and loser, businessman, philanthropist and more. And there’s no shortageof anecdotes: the book is as entertaining as Federer’s game.
Bibliography
Roger Federer – Phenomenon. Enthusiast. Philanthropist.
by Simon Graf; photos Romina Amato
Translation of the original German edition Roger Federer – Weltsportler. Ballverliebter.
Wohltäter (ISBN 978-3-907126-00-4). kurz & bündig Verlag, Basel, Frankfurt a.M.
English translation: Sophie Debrunner Hall
Proofreading: Syntax Übersetzungen AG, Thalwil
Paperback, approx. 160 pages, 19 x 12 cm
Print-Book ISBN: 978-3-907126-11-0
Print-Book Price: US$ 14.98/€12.50/GB£ 11.95/CHF 14.50
ePUB ISBN: 978-3-907126-24-0
ePUB Price: € 9.98
You can buy the book on Amazon at – https://www.amazon.co.uk/Roger-Federer-Phenomenon-Philanthropist-Kurzportraits/dp/3907126114
