Of course, because sporting wives must not have opinions, today she is depicted as a back-stage string-puller; an interfering trouble-maker who “wears the trousers” and by all accounts, makes Roger carry his penis in his hand-luggage on the many global flights they take each year. Yes, I know they are squillionaires thanks to his talent and determination and yes, I imagine that does take the edge off when you have four jet-lagged babies to deal with. But arguably Federer has only become the greatest tennis player of all time thanks to the stability in his private life; due largely to his wife’s own sacrifices and her willingness to create a pretty damn perfect family of five-year-old twin girls and 6 month-old twin boys. In a rare interview with Swiss magazine Schweizer Illustrierte, she emphasised the value of her own tennis knowledge (her career was cut short by injury in 2002), saying: “That’s why we get along so perfectly. No other woman could deal with so much tennis. If he wants to sleep long I definitely won’t wake him by getting up early.”