A rooftop tennis match with two Italian girls, in their teens, has emerged as the most-watched video featuring Roger Federer this year.

When Roger Federer sprung a rooftop surprise on star-struck Italian girls

While their country was under lockdown at a time when Covid cases had peaked, Carola and Vittoria, from Finale Ligure in Italy, hit upon a novel way to spend their video.

They played a tennis match standing on their respective rooftops. The video of the match went viral and it wasn’t long before the twenty-time Grand Slam champion saw it and was floored.

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Then Barilla, a popular YouTube channel that had posted the viral video, decided to spring a surprise gift on the girls. It got Federer to fly all the way to their hometown for a surprise rooftop match with the girls.

Federer’s gesture won tennis fans over globally

Federer’s gesture won the hearts of tennis fans the world over and the video of the unique rooftop match became an overnight sensation in cyberspace.

The YouTube video scored a zillion hits and was liked and shared a million times over.

The channel followed up with another video which turned out to be an even bigger hit with tennis fans than the earlier one.

In this video, the channel got the girls talking on Federer as the ‘Swiss Master’  listened in from not too far away.

Roger Federer broke in as girls were professing their love for him

The girls, both avowed fans of Federer, professed their love and admiration for the Swiss tennis icon as he coyly listened and smiled, away from their sight.

“My favorite tennis player is Federer because I like how he is on the court. He is always concentrated. If I were to meet him, I’d jump on him or I’d be star-struck,” says the 13-year-old Vittoria in the video.

To that, Carola says, “Yes, but to ask Federer an autograph you’d have to use your hands. You don’t know how to speak Swiss.”

Vittoria adds, “If I had to take one of Roger’s best shots, I would take his backhand.”

“I’d like to have Federer’s elegance while playing and (Rafael) Nadal’s power,” says Carola.

At this point in the video, as the two girls trade opinion on Federer and Nadal, their rivalry and friendship, the Swiss star, in tennis shorts and wielding a racquet, crashes their interview, throwing the girls into a fit.

“Special moment in my career”: Federer

He then asks the girls to join him for some rooftop tennis and they readily oblige.

After the game, he signed tennis balls for the girls and shared his experience of playing with them.

“Personally for me, that was a very special moment in my career as a tennis player. To surprise a fan or children, like I was able with Carola and Vittoria today,” Federer says in the video.

Opening up on the rooftop tennis game, earlier in the video, Vittoria says, “During quarantine, we decided to try to have a knock-up between a rooftop and the other.

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But we never thought that this video would go viral.”

Federer even posed for pictures for the girls.