When was the last time Roger Federer get touchy-feely with Mirka in public?

It's not easy to see tennis stars showing off their love and affection to their partners in public.

These are some rare photos of Roger Federer and Mirka, which could due back to 2005.


Time flies... they are now married and baby Federer is due soon, probably just two months from now.

(Via menstennisforums.com)

Roger Federer & Mirka at Lenny Kravitz concert in Madrid

These are unseen before photos of Roger Federer and Mirka who attended Lenny Kravitz concert in Madrid recently.

Isn't she lovely?

Someone in the forum suggested that she still has strong legs especially for a heavily pregnant woman.

(Images via menstennisforums.com)

Finally, Roger Federer's wedding photos have surfaced!

Roger Federer doesn't want to lose out to Andy Roddick this time, so he released his wedding photos first!

Schweizer Illustrierte has the exclusive wedding photos of Roger Federer and Mirka Vavrinec!

The private photos in the Monday issue shows 12 pages full of lovely and intimate moments.

Any Swiss friends bought the magazine yet?

Updated: Lana of Great Tennis Photos just found a photo that shows a full spread of that magazine bearing the husband and wife team.

And according to Gototennis, a Basel paper reported that Roger sold the photos for "just the customary fee" which went to his foundation.

More photos and video updates!

(Via menstennisforums.com; Updated image from rogerfederer.com via Great Tennis Photos)

Roger Federer: Curtains down in Monte Carlo, time for honeymoon?

Roger Federer lost to his Olympic gold-medal doubles partner Stanislas Wawrinka 6-4, 7-5 in the third round of the Monte Carlo Masters today.

This makes Wawrinka the first Swiss since Marc Rosset in 9 years to beat Federer.

While Wawrinka was playing confidently on clay, Federer on the other hand looked sloppy and shaky throughout the match.

At times wifey Mirka yawned looking extremely bored.

I guess Federer knew he needed a break.

C'mon the man just got married last weekend.

Looking on the bright side, Mirka and Roger now can pack up and go on a mini honeymoon to celebrate their new marriage.

Check out the wedding ring!

(Images via AP, menstennisforums.com)

Roger Federer marries longtime girlfriend Mirka Vavrinec

I was away for a long weekend for personal matter and I'm glad to be back with a good news!

Roger Federer finally married longtime girlfriend Mirka Vavrinec on Saturday in a small ceremony in his hometown in Basel.

Federer announced the wedding on his official website, saying the couple got married “surrounded by a small group of close friends and family".

“It was a beautiful spring day and an incredibly joyous occasion,” he said.

The couple announced last month they are expecting their first child.

Hopefully we'll get to see those wedding photos soon.

(Via AP; Image by Clive Brunskill/Getty Images)

Mirka shows off her baby bump

Mom-to-be Mirka Vavrinec was spotted in a perfect flowery maternity dress and showing off her growing belly at Indian Wells last week.


(Images via menstennisforums.com)

Mirka gets parenting tips from Gwen Stefani

Gwen Stefani and Mirka Vavrinec were spotted at the BNP Paribas Open at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden.

Last August, Stefani gave birth to the baby boy, Zuma Nesta Rock Rossdale.

I think Mirka and Roger's baby will have a more conservative name.


(Images by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)

Wonder how Roger and Mirka's baby would look like?

These are computer generated photos of Roger Federer and Mirka Vavrinec's baby.

If it's a baby boy... he would probably look like this:

And if it's a baby girl... she would probably look like this:

We have yet to know the gender of the baby.

But I hope they are boy/girl twins :D

(Images via sports.sina.com.cn)

Roger Federer says girlfriend Mirka is pregnant!

Yay! Roger Federer is going to be a daddy soon!

Federer said in a message on his web site yesterday that his girlfriend Mirka Vavrinec is pregnant with the couple’s first child.

The baby is due in the summer.

Dear Fans

I arrived in Indian Wells earlier this week and I am eager to get back out on court. My back is feeling much better and I am ready to go.

I also have some really awesome news to share with all of you: Mirka and I are excited to let you know that we will be parents this summer! Mirka is pregnant and we are so happy to be starting a family together. This is a dream come true for us. We love children and we are looking forward to being parents for the first time. Mirka is feeling great and everything is going well.

Speak soon and thanks for all your continued support!

Roger

Federer met Mirka back in 2000 at the Sydney Olympics.

Hopefully we'll be hearing the wedding bells soon ;-)

Currently the world no. 2 is in Indian Wells, California for the ATP masters 1000 event.

Federer is seeded second behind Nadal at Indian Wells and he will open against Marc Gicquel or Simone Bolelli.

(Via AP)

Mirka spotted grocery shopping in Malaysia!

While Roger Federer was at the meet-the-fans session, Esther who had just attended the tennis clinic conducted James Blake, walked towards the Mandarin Oriental hotel entrance.

By the way Esther is a huge tennis fan (and also very tennis-savvy) whom I get to know through my blog. For the past one year we have been exchanging information and she helped me a lot in doing research and contacting media and organisers as well.

There she bumped into Mirka. It wasn't easy to get a personal photo with Mirka but Esther was really lucky that day (*Esther just gave me the green light to post her photo with Mirka here).

I walked back to Mandarin Oriental after Roger's meet-the-fans session and reunited with Esther.

At the hotel lobby, we saw Mirka coming back from grocery shopping! Not sure what she bought though. The yellow plastic bag shows two chinese/japanese-looking characters.

We asked for photos but she declined and kept saying, "Sorry, I don't take photos. Sorry!"

So we let her go :D

Later in the evening, Esther, Siti (a tennis fan whom we met that day) and I walked back from Starbucks towards the hotel lobby hoping to catch the players before they head to the stadium.

On the way, we saw Mirka again! She was right in front of us and we asked for photos again.

She refused to take photos and repeated sorry countless times, "Sorry, I don't take photos. Sorry!"

Then Mirka and her lady friend walked towards KLCC for shopping. It seems like nobody recognize Mirka.

Now I must tell you how regretful I am for not following Mirka to the shopping mall. Then we saw her coming back to the hotel in a new black and white striped cardigan.



She was late and Roger had to wait for her for awhile before they headed to the stadium for the exhibition match.

Andy Roddick is still missing from Tennis Masters Cup in Shanghai

Where the heck is Andy Roddick?

The rest of the guys are not waiting for him. They have already taken the official Tennis Masters Cup Shanghai players photo.

Roddick is also not seen mingling with the guys at practice. Perhaps he wants to practice alone and strategize to succeed here. Or maybe he's not in Shanghai yet, I guess.

Andy Murray is begging Roger Federer not to beat him this time around.

Awww.. lovely couple, they have so much to talk about.

Gilles Simon has been practicing diligently.

So does Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.

Jo-Willy

This song is dedicated to Mirka. She's not exactly lonely but bored.

(Images via Tennis Masters Cup official site, Osports.cn)

Roger Federer shaves for Gillette at Shanghai

While in Shanghai for Tennis Masters Cup, Roger Federer makes some money by squeezing in a Gillette promotional campaign in between his training.

This event named Boys To Men were attended by a thousand of university students. Check out the youtube posted by The Star Online at the end of this post.

Roger Federer competes in a shaving competition.

"What was that?"

Couldn't be bothered, Mirka finds something to do to kill her time.

I guess Federer lost in the competition. He haven't finish the other half of his face.

A token of appreciation for Federer.

(Images via sina.com)

Random pictures at the Tennis Masters Cup Shanghai

Everyone already know why Rafael Nadal is not in Shanghai for Tennis Masters Cup.

But I don't see Andy Roddick and Nikolay Davydenko either. I've been surfing some of the popular Chinese websites trying to dig some photos of the two but to no avail.

However here are the rest of the guys. But before that look at the robin group allocations below (numeric prefix denotes seeding)

Red group
1. Roger Federer (SUI)
3. Andy Murray (GBR)
5. Andy Roddick (USA)
8. Gilles Simon (FRA)

Gold group
2. Novak Djokovic (SER)
4. Nikolay Dawydenko (RUS)
6. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA)
7. Juan Martin Del Potro (ARG)

The lovely Mirka and Roger Federer. You know what? I'm actually rooting Federer to win here.

Novak Djokovic has not been his usual self lately. Either the US Open impacted his

confidence or he has been partying really hard.

Andy Murray is a hot favourite but let's rewind back to the recent Olympic Games, he was beaten
by Rendy Lu in the first round. China has been quite tough on Murray, so he's not really my pick to win here.

Murray took part in the Tennis Masters Cup draw ceremony at the Hilton Shanghai on
Wednesday. The names of the players were inside traditional Chinese fortune cookies.

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, fresh from winning the Paris Masters looks confident and ready
to win again.

The Chinese people believe that number 8 is a lucky number. Gilles Simon believes it too.

Frenchmen Gilles Simon and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga practice together.

Juan Martin del Potro looks yummilicious here.

Thanks to anon, now we can finally see Nikolay Davydenko in Shanghai!

(Via sina.com, fft.fr)

Boris Becker to marry 24-year-old girlfriend, Tommy Haas' ex-girlfriend that is

Former Wimbledon champion Boris Becker plans to marry his late manager’s daughter, who is 16 years younger than the German tennis icon, a newspaper reported Monday.

The couple got engaged Sunday “in the closest family circle,” according to the online edition of Bild, Germany’s mass-circulation newspaper.

Becker, 40, divorced Barbara Becker, with whom he has two children, seven years ago. He also has a daughter with London-based model Angela Ermakova.

Sandy Meyer-Woelden, 24, is the daughter of former Becker manager Axel Meyer-Woelden, who died in 1997. A jewelry designer, Meyer-Woelden dated German tennis star Tommy Haas for several years.

Perhaps Becker should advise Roger Federer to push everything negative aside and settle down like him too. When a top player like Federer is suffering the worst time of his career, the best thing to do is try to take a break and accomplish some other things in life (read: getting married to Mirka!)

(Via Telegraph, Yahoo! Sports)

Mirka looking bored again

This is not the first time we see Miroslava "Mirka" Vavrinec looking bored, especially on court. Check out this post.

Mirka is a former women tennis player for Switzerland (she was born in Slovakia but later emigrated to Switzerland). Mirka and Roger Federer has been inseparable ever since they laid eyes on each other at the Sydney Olympics in the year 2000.

You can see her in almost every single tournament, including during this training session at the Olympic Green Tennis Centre in Beijing.

But seriously, I'm not sure if Mirka presence these days are going to help Federer in his upcoming games.

By the way, Mirka, have you plan a birthday party for Federer?

(Images via Reuters)

Gavin Rossdale and Gwen Stefani: Roger Federer's BFF @ Wimbledon final

Gavin Rossdale and Gwen Stefani spent another day at the Centre Court cheering for Roger Federer.

The couple sat next to Federer's girlfriend, Mirka Vavrinec throughout the 4 hours 48 minutes match, the longest in the history of Wimbledon final.


Throughout the tense final, it seems that the heavily pregnant Gwen Stefani is merely accompanying her husband. She looked bored, what more had to put up with the match suspensions due to rain.

However it's totally different for Gavin who, just like Mirka, seems to show a lot of emotions during the match.

Stefani is expected to remain in London until she gives birth to her second baby.

(Via dailymail.co.uk)