Roger Federer Just Played PICKLEBALL for 1st Time: ‘Fun for Sure’ (Exclusive)
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- Roger Federer thrilled fans with more than 1500 matches and 20 grand slam titles over 24 years before retiring at age 41 in 2022. The tennis legend granted cameras rare access inside his private world to film the very end of his storied career for the new doc “Federer: Twelve Days.” Roger talks to “Extra’s” Billy Bush about the project, reflecting on his proudest achievement and recalling an emotional moment with rival Rafael Nadal after their last match. Roger also speaks about his wife Mirka’s incredible support and his life now doing carpool duty for their kids. Plus, he reveals he recently played pickleball for the first time! “Federer: Twelve Days” is on Prime Video June 20.
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Roger is the best of the best. He is missed by so many. Can't wait to see the next half of his life. Good luck Roger
40-15.😪😭
He was the best of the best for a short while, then he was dethroned. He's great... but not the best of the best. He could have been... but yeah, 40-15. With all that talent, Roger was his own enemy. His mentality was super fragile against Nadal and Djokovic.
@@OmegaMouse Yes, which is why he only got 20 slams, Nadal 22 and Novak 24, Roger's mental game was a shambles, and cost him many majors, also upset many fans, who were just peed off with him.
Roger is the greatest sportsman and player, and the greatest role model. Everyone during his time was lucky to have him! We were all lucky to be alive to witness him playing.
graceful and grateful. what a great person RF❤
Always great catching up with RF news. Really miss him on the tour❤
Thank God for RF. Just mesmerizing tennis he played.
Always a pleasure to receive news about Federer. We’re exciting about this docu of his.
Looking forward to the day.~ As of 20 June 2024.
Thank you for the post.
When Roger picks up a pickleball racket, he immediately became the top 5 best ever in pickle ball.
The true GOAT! Missed by all
Federer, Nadal and Djokovic have become such graceful speakers while being the top nudged players. Although English was not their first language, they were able to use measured words and effectively communicate with the public. I would say Roger set the example for Rafael and Novak. Thinking back, past tennis champions were either withdrawn or arrogant. They left very little legacy compared to Roger, Rafael and a Novak.
Federer and novak are GOATS in eloquent speaking as well but rafa ?!
@@alokyadav-ye2xwNadal improved his English tremendously as well, so this is not a very nice nor truthful comment. Why this need for negative comments ?
The guy's a legend!!
Best all around multi gen player
My Goat forever
Alright, Pickleball fans out there. It's official and settled. If there's anyone more qualified to give a well-informed statement on their initial thoughts on pickleball, its Federer. He was quick in stating that it's an easier sport for sure.
I can’t imagine anyone arguing against Pickleball being easier than tennis overall, but that’s what makes it so fun!!
You do have some merit in what you’re saying but, no matter who it is, anybody’s initial thoughts on a sport would be shallow. You can’t really use what Federer says as gospel, also he’s a life long tennis player, he has an inherent bias towards tennis.
Also not to mention, Federer has 0 experience being a complete beginner in pickleball. He has a lot of experience being a beginner in tennis, like everyone who starts in tennis and goes to pickleball.
@@adamheath4599 So I’ve played pickleball for 2 years and tennis for 20 and I can personally attest to the difficulty of both, 1 regular full game of tennis at its shortest (meaning if I won every point up to 2 out of 3 sets of 6 games) is equal to winning 2+ full Pickleball games (‘full’ meaning 12-10/22 point game) at its max. Bringing your A game in tennis means you’re going to be sprinting far more and hitting powerful strokes 90% of the time if you can, tennis also encourages power and speed with only sacrificing control when trying to effectively put in shot placement, pickleball encourages more on balancing between power/control/defensive play but more overall emphasis towards control, I can dink for 2 hours straight if I want to that doesn’t take as much energy as working on my closers in tennis.
So yes tennis overall is much more taxing on the body/joints, Pickleball at its most competitive only really taxes the body at short bursts due to the size of the court and the pacing of the game which I totally welcome imo. I can get everyone and anyone into pickleball and to come back again for more, I cannot get a single person to come back and play tennis again after trying it once, that alone tells me pickleball is an easy sport to pick up and play vs tennis, which is NOT a bad thing and shouldn’t be taken that way in a negative aspect, but yeah I mean if there’s anyone with utter respect of anyone and everything to make a comment about how easy pickleball is and to take it playfully, it’s Federer
The only thing that pickleball has over tennis in terms of difficulty are the hands battles which are much more engaging and more entertaining to watch over tennis, I mean sure there’s volleying battles in tennis but those rarely happen if ever, pickleball has those moments nearly half of the game which could draw the appeal for table tennis players to want to hop in on too from the speed of it.
@adamheath4599 Federer is a tennis player who spent his life playing tennis competitively. He's a legend who many say, plays the game so elegantly, it looks effortless. If someone is that good, yet admits that it's harder than pickleball (in which he lifted a pickleball racket the first time), it's safe to say Pickleball is easier of a sport.
Let's put it this way. I would be hard pressed to hear anyone who first lifted up a tennis racket say tennis is easy.
@@MeLikeTennis as I said previously. Federer has never been a beginner in pickleball though so he cannot contextualize the beginner experience for pickleball. You’re trying to use Federer as an expert witness in something that he’s not an expert in. Playing a racket sport either ping pong or tennis will give you incredible feel, and allow you to easily pick up pickleball.
He has been a beginner in tennis and can contextualize and relate to the struggles of grinding his way to become good at that sport. He has an inherent bias.
Let’s put it this way, I’ve never met someone who hasn’t played a racket sport a day in their life and said it was easy. Be it, tennis, pickleball, or ping pong.
I’ll give you a different example. I’ve wrestled for 12-13 years now. I can roll against bjj practitioners and I can find jiu jitsu easy. But that doesn’t mean bjj is easy, I have 12 years of grappling experience to fall back on as opposed to a complete beginner.
Simply the best ❤❤❤❤❤❤
I knew he'd like it!
GOAT
Love RF
05 wimby Mirka basically acted as feds coach in between all those rain delays in the finals
Not all will admit it, but Wimbledon is the one. The one everyone really wants to win.
Piu' passa il tempo, piu' gli si vuole bene e lo si apprezza per le sue qualita' umane👏👏👏🤝🤗
Nadal and Federer should team up on pickleball to play Ben and Collin Johns. I bet Fedal will beat Johns.
😂 I’d love to watch that matchup too! …but relatively few of fed and nadal’s skills from tennis would apply in high level pickleball doubles. Their baseline drives wouldn’t get them far unless they learn around half a dozen new kinds of shots that are essentially nonexistent in tennis that are necessary to learn for pro-level doubles pickleball. Stuff like roll volleys, resets, topspin drops and just “aggressive dinking” in general would be pretty foreign to them, but you can’t survive against a team like the Johns bros without those shots in your tool belt.
Obviously, Fedal could be an amazing doubles team in pickleball, but they would still need to commit to learning and refining all these new shots which would probably take about a year for them to reach the highest levels in PB, even with all the other racquet sport skills those two would be starting with.
@@TheodenBreathes, with some practice behind them, their intelligence in picking up the game, and their super talent, I believe that within a year, they could be the best.
@@liberty5069oh for sure they could be some of the best if they were committed to adjusting to fairly different equipment and strategies. There are still plenty of mechanics that overlap between the two sports, and they are incredibly talented athletes, so that wouldn’t be surprising one bit.
I don’t think the pickleball crowd is arguing that their sport is equally as physically strenuous as tennis. You don’t have to hit the ball as hard as tennis and you don’t have to cover as big of a court.
That said… is the physical strain of a sport the only determining factor to how much you respect a sport and its players? Is tennis as physically demanding as rugby? Or even soccer? If it’s easier on the body, should tennis be less respected than rugby?
I think the main source of exasperation that pickleball players feel toward the tennis crowd is the disrespect they get from players of a fellow racquet sport. The regular argument from tennis players doesn’t even make sense as an argument for why pickleball is inferiors. “I came from playing tennis, and picked up a pickleball paddle and it was super easy and I beat all the best players at the park that day, so pickleball is a joke!”
… and? You came from a very overlapping sport and beat some random rec players? That’s nice I guess. You’ve got a head start, soooo see how far you can go up the ranks before you get your ass handed to you! It might even be fun!
But if you decide to stick to tennis then go for it and see how far you can go in it!
Pickleball is a young sport so the skill level of even the best players keeps rising rapidly. It’s not as high as tennis yet, but why would it be? Tennis is a very old, worldwide sport with a massive talent pool. Talent levels can’t really be compared properly until PB gets the chance to catch up.
I don’t like endings, Rodger. 😓
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He’s simply peRFect.
What was roger Federer doing in Vietnam
He was playing pickleball!
...while he was on vacation!
why 12 days? why not any other number? what's the symbolism here? the 12 apostles? and he is ... ?
The 12 days is from the time he announced his retirement until his final match in September 2022.
NOOOOOOOOOOOO0000!!!!!!!!!!!!
why dont these guys pick up paddle tennis ? it is easier on the body, cuz the court is smaller. but i think there is actually more skill involved than there is in tennis. it would be a natural fit. pickleball does not require anywhere near the skill.
You honestly think paddle tennis takes more skill than real tennis? LOL
Padel needs more hand/eye coordination than pickle ball bc it's a combination of squash and tennis but it definitely does not require more skill than tennis!
Pickle ball is easier than tennis but as a singles tennis player I've played padel and didn't enjoy it as much as I enjoy playing tennis. I think there's also the indoor/outdoor component between all 3 sports. I love playing tennis outdoors.
@@ThorD4602 yes, i do. have you ever played ? 1) you dont have a big serve any more. that is a real weakness in the game of tennis. no way should the most important shot be one in which you have total control. 2) paddle tennis is much more exacting. once you make a mistake, there is not much you are gonna be able to do about it. in tennis, there are many ways to possibly overcome a weak shot. btw, i also think ping pong may take more skill than either tennis or paddle tennis. i look at the ridiculous shots that are made at the highest level, and i cant even imagine making them. that is not at all true when i watch tennis or paddle tennis.
@@ksc743 i think we are talking about different sports ? there are several sports that have paddle in it, and there is also something called platform tennis. in one of those sports, you are in an enclosure, where the ball can also be played off the fence ? i dont know anything about any of the other paddle sports. the one sport which originated with the name of paddle tennis, was invented specifically to help kids learn the game of tennis. there is no element of squash in it. th-cam.com/video/25oPicgGh98/w-d-xo.html
@@jimmybrice6360 oh you're right! I'm European so we play padel, not paddle.
nooooooooooooooooooooooo
this guy is addicted to attention. retired forever ago does more press than active players.
his documentary is getting released soon so he’s doing a press tour….thats normal
He has said he is a Leo, they love attention.
@@tnt01 good point. I'm sure that Leo is considered the most elegant zodiac now. LOL.
@@ThorD4602 Roger said it in an interview.
He may be retired from atp tennis but he's not retired from life. Besides which, he's a global icon and instantly recognisable. He was on holiday with his family in Vietnam. Locals and tourists were excited to see him and wanted photos with him. It goes without saying he will always get media attention wherever he goes because he's famous and more importantly, well-liked.
YEAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!! ROGERRRRRR