Roger Federer Goes Down Memory Lane with BLICK on their 60th Anniversary

Tennis - Swiss tennis legend Roger Federer has congratulated BLICK, the Swiss newspaper that is published by Ringier in Zurich on the occasion of their 60th anniversary. The newspaper was first published in 1959 and was in a broadsheet format till 2005, before moving to a tabloid and then back to a broadsheet in 2009.

The team at BLICK presented a collage of all its front pages where Federer was on the cover to the Swiss maestro, who was humbled to see the milestones in his legendary career on the front pages of the newspaper over so many years and thanked the team at the newspaper.

Speaking about their collaboration through the years, Federer says, "The majority of our cooperation has been nice over the past twenty years. Twenty years! I have often said that they passed far too quickly. You are already sixty - congratulations at this point!. (On the front pages where he is on the cover) Wow, I know some, but not all. Most of the time I read the BLICK abroad, of course."

The team also brought up the first time that Federer's name came up in the paper - which was on December 30, 1995 when Federer was just a 14 year old junior. Reflecting on that, Federer says, "It was the Junior Orange Bowl, it says it there. It is currently running in Florida again - the son of my manager Tony Godsick is also playing there. I had to go through qualifying, win a few matches in the main draw and beat the number 1 American, David Martin. He later came on the tour as a doubles player. It was a great victory for me, a kind of starting signal. I was 14 years old, with Peter Carter and Sven Swinnen, who still coaches at Swiss Tennis, over there, for the first time in Miami, in America, the best juniors. It was great."

from Tennis World USA https://ift.tt/35acJWD