“Congratulations [on] being part of the Tennis Hall of Fame. You really, really deserve it,” Edberg, who also coached Federer at one stage, said. “You’ve had an incredible career and 20 Grand Slam titles tells it all.”
Meanwhile, Becker, a former coach of his longtime rival Novak Djokovic, said that Federer “really put tennis on a different map.”
“Whenever you started winning, people that had nothing to do with tennis liked tennis because of you,” Becker said. “So you’re not only one of the best players in tennis of all time, you’re the most important sportsman of all time.”
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Also featured were Kim Clijsters, the current president of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, Federer’s fellow Swiss Martina Hingis, and WTA co-founder Billie Jean King.
