It has been almost a year since the former world’s number-one tennis star and twenty-time Grand Slam winner Roger Federer‘s retirement from professional tennis. However, his colleagues and fans are truly not over him yet. Recently one of his former opponents and a reputed coach revealed something truly surprising about this legendary tennis star.

Federer has been one of the motivational pillars for many newcomer tennis stars now. Hardly there is someone who doesn’t know about his extraordinary strokes during the Australian Open tournaments throughout his professional career. However, this Moroccan former tennis star’s comment about Federer will surely surprise Federer fans bringing unbelievable information about the Swiss tennis stalwart.

Federer’s former opponent reveals surprising information about the Swiss tennis legend

While fans would say Federer is unbeatable, the tennis stalwart’s former opponent and famous former Moroccan tennis player Younes El Aynaoui would say otherwise. Recently while attending the Faulcombride Cup as a coach, this tennis personality revealed that he defeated Roger Federer in 1999.

Ayanoui further commented that Federer entered as a Wild card entry in Gstaad, Switzerland. In 1998, Federer was struggling physically to remain as the world’s number-one tennis player in the junior section. However, the twist arrived when Ayanoui revealed a shocking fact about the former world’s number-one.

He mentioned that while defeating the Swiss tennis legend by 6-2 and 6-3, he didn’t feel like Federer was a tough competitor. Yes! Ayanoui had doubts about Federer’s tennis skills.

Not only that but this former Moroccan tennis star commented that Rafael Nadal seemed better than Federer at that moment. Ayanoui said- “I didn’t think anything special, I didn’t have that feeling that I had with Rafa of knowing that he was going to be very good. With Roger I didn’t think he was going to be that good,” 

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However, that is not where Younes El Aynaoui stopped while speaking about Roger Federer. he further mentioned how the latter transformed himself and became way more skilled than before. In Ayanoui’s words- “but he made a terrible physical change, he got a lot stronger and faster.” Now fans would agree that legends do not appear with the amount of trophies they bagged but by their perseverance about the sport.

What are the achievements of Swiss tennis pro Roger Federer?

Federer’s list of achievements is so big that any amount of words will fall short of bringing each and everything into context. However, fans would start by mentioning that this former Swiss tennis star held the ATP world’s number-one tennis rank for 310 weeks consecutively. Roger Federer’s track record proudly shows his 103 single trophies and 20 major singles titles.

While his career began in 1998 winning his junior-level Wimbledon Championship, his first major tournament was in 2003 at Wimbledon, where he received his victory at the age of just twenty-one. Federer is known to have twenty Grand Slams, which makes him the thirst highest Grand Slam winner.

Federer’s abilities are truly popular worldwide. Now following Younes El Aynaoui’s comment, fans understand that Federer is like all of us. He is the result of his hard work and dedication. Aynaoui’s revelation inspires the young generation of tennis players with the hope that they can also become the next Federer if they want it that bad and wish to work on their drawbacks. what do you think?

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