He followed her most of the times, and was very eager to talk to her. Roger might have lost his dream, but he wasn’t going back home empty-handed. Mirka may have lost in the match, and the chance for the gold medal, but she lost something else: her heart. However, Roger lost to Tommy Haas, and it was the hardest defeat for him to take during that year. Roger was in the semi-finals in the Sydney Olympics, while Mirka was already out as she lost in the first round to Elena Dementieva. Although they started really paying attention to each other at the Sydney Olympics, they knew each other only up to their names and faces. Roger and Mirka actually first met at Biel, contrary to the press story, shortly after the ‘House of Tennis’ opened at 1997. Martina was determined and sent Mirka a racquet, who was arranged for her first tennis lesson. However, Vavrinec said no, saying ballet was more of her thing. Martina thought Mirka looked athletic, and invited her to join tennis. It was 1987, and she was watching Martina Navratilova, who she also met. Vavrinec, meanwhile, got involved in the sport when she was nine. Miroslava ‘Mirka’ Vavrinec was a Czechoslovakia-born who moved to Switzerland when she was two, also playing for Switzerland.įederer’s entrance of tennis began humbly, only involving in tennis trainings in his club, being a ballkid with future champions Martina Hingis and Patty Schnyder and being in a family belonging to the average middle class. The Swiss Roger Federer, then an underdog, still two years ever since being a professional player on the circuit was still without a Grand Slam. They first really met in the land down under during the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, or simply the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics.
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