Roger Federer’s girlfriend, Mirka Vavrinec, is pregnant with the couple’s first child.Roger Federer announced it today on his website, rogerfederer.com, that he and longtime girlfriend Mirka Vavrinec will be expecting their first child together in the coming months.“Mirka and I are excited to let you know we will be parents this summer,” the 13-time Grand Slam tennis champion said in a statement on his Web site today. “Mirka is pregnant and we are so happy to be starting a family together,” the 27-year-old Swiss said on his website.
Federer met Vavrinec, 31, when both were competing for the Swiss team at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Vavrinec deals with Federer’s press requests and travels with him to tournaments.
Federer, 27, is the No. 2 seed this week at the Tennis Masters Indian Wells which got underway earlier Thursday. Federer drew a bye in the first round and is expected to play on Saturday the winner of the Simone Bolleli v. Marq Gicquel match scheduled for later today.
Rafael Nadal is the top seed. Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray and Andy Roddick are also playing in Indian Wells this week.
Last year, he lost the French Open and Wimbledon finals to Rafael Nadal, who knocked Federer off the No. 1 position after a record 237-week reign. Federer won the U.S. Open, then lost to Nadal in the final of the Australian Open in January to remain one shy of Pete Sampras’s record of 14 major titles.
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