Deuce Magazine featured an article with Roger about “the last time” something happened since he became the No. 1 player in the world. Questions such as, “When was the last time [you] hired a tennis court, and other like:

I played a competitive sport other than tennis?
Honestly, I’m very careful these days to avoid injury. I stopped playing soccer matches. I don’t ski anymore. I try to save my energy.

I broke a string?
During practice in Dubai. In a match? It hasn’t happened very often. I think it may have happened once last year when I hit the knot, but I can’t remember at which tournament.

I visited a country for the first time?
India last year in December for UNICEF. (Read story)

I played a practical joke in the locker room?
Basically everyday with everybody. In Cincinnati we had a fight in the locker room with Dmitry Tursunov. There were probably six people involved, including three or four players, throwing about 50 balls at each other for 15 minutes. I won! [Editor’s note: Towards the end of the fight, the Penn ball mascot chose the wrong time to return to the locker room and was mercilessly pummeled.]

I asked someone for their autograph?
Probably Tiger for a friend of mine and Thierry Henry for a friend. That was this year.

Roger is a pretty down-to-eart, normal guy who is extremely gifted/talented. It’s great that tennis has such a great person at the helm of the men’s game.

Roger will appear next in Prague, CZE where he will represent Switzerland against the Czech Republic inthe Davis Cup match.

Source: ATPtennis.com/Deuce