ICC World Cup: Swiss tennis ace Roger Federer turns India fan

The Swiss great, a winner of 17 Grand Slam titles, was pictured on his Facebook page admiring an Indian team shirt, which he had unwrapped from a gift box. “Dressing up for a Gentleman’s game today. #BleedBlue,” wrote the 33-year-old. Federer would not be a complete stranger to cricket as his mother Lynette was born in South Africa, a country which has high hopes of a first World Cup title in the sport. Federer and Indian batting legend Sachin Tendulkar are known to be close with the ‘Little Master’ a regular visitor to Wimbledon each year to see the Swiss play. Virat Kohli, who made a century for India, also met Federer in Sydney in January, describing the tennis player as an ‘absolute legend’ in a captioned picture he posted on his Twitter site.