Federer’s wife has played an important role in his career (Picture: Getty)

Roger Federer has admitted he will quit tennis right now if his wife Mirka decides she wants to stop travelling.

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The world No. 5 has enjoyed a fine week at Wimbledon so far and is yet to drop a set on his way to the fourth round.

But while the Swiss loves his life on the tennis court, he’s insistent that his wife – and mother of his four children – plays a big role in his staying on the ATP Tour.

And should decide she’s done with the travelling life, Federer admitted his career would be over then and there.




‘Without her I couldn’t do it,’ he said after his latest win over Mischa Zverev.

Federer was in good form (Picture: Getty)

‘If she said, you know, I don’t want to travel no more, I’ll say, Okay, my career is over. It’s as simple as that.

‘So she’s the key to a lot of this. But she’s happy to be doing it, not on a weekly basis just because the traveling gets too much with the four. But, you know, I went to Stuttgart and Halle on my own. Now here we’re together. We’re having a great time.

‘So she’s been amazing support for me. She’s the best.

Mirka has supported Roger at Wimbledon (Picture: AFP/Getty)

‘I’m happy she allows me to chase our dreams really, because she’s in it as much as I am, even though she’s more on a different side right now. She’s not as invested in the whole tennis bit like she used to be.’

Federer also admitted he was happy to see the ‘Big Four’ all safely through into the second week of Wimbledon again and was pleased that Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic have returned to form.

‘I think it’s great,’ he added. ‘I’m not that surprised because I thought that everybody this week was going to find their form, especially speaking about Andy and Novak. So I thought they did it very well.

‘With me, I hoped I was going to be there. Whereas with Rafa [Nadal]’s confidence, I thought he was also going to be there.

‘So I’m not that surprised, but it’s great. It’s obviously hard to make all second week for us, you know, when I’m not playing. So sometimes it’s in your favour these statistics.’

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