Roger Federer may be retired but the 20-time grand slam champion is still making waves in whatever he chooses to do.
While the Australian Open continues, Federer is on the other side of the world at Paris Fashion Week.
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Always the stylish customer, Federer and his wife Mirka have been turning heads, the latter wearing what appeared to be a goat or a ram, which many took as a message about her husband.
But the 41-year-old has caught the attention of the world once again after he met with K-Pop superstars Blackpink.
For those who don’t know them, the pop group was formed in 2016 and has been called the “biggest girl group in the world” and have headlined two world tours.
They are social media giants with more than 37.7m followers on TikTok, currently ranked 42nd on the site overall.
Last year, the group made approximately $32m collectively in 2022 and topped the Billboard Music Charts in October last year with its second studio album Born Pink.
With its four members Jisoo, Jennie, Rose and Lisa all in their 20s, it was a clash of generations as Federer posed with the quartet, highlighted by Federer’s caption.
“My kids said this was a definite IG post,” Federer wrote.
It didn’t escape US teen tennis sensation Coco Gauff who commented: “blink????”
Blackpink fans are known as “Blinks”.
Canadian 23-year-old tennis star Denis Shapovalov added: “Hahaha yessss”.
The 28-year-old CEO of TAG Heuer Frederic Arnault wrote: “Iconic”.
The images has nearly a million likes on Instagram as well as 12.6m views on Twitter, 189,000 likes and 22,500 retweets.
The debate may be out whether Federer is the tennis GOAT after both Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic moved ahead of his tally but he’s definitely having fun with the spoils of his hard work.
Although Federer’s enjoying his time away from the game, he hasn’t been too far from his former rivals minds.
Earlier in the tournament after qualifying for the semi-finals, Djokovic ask the crowd to give Federer a round of applause.
“Lets give a big round of applause to Roger guys, let’s go,” Djokovic said.
“He deserves it. I had some great battles with Roger over the years that’s for sure.
“Tennis misses him for sure. I’ve seen him dressing up very sharply for fashion week, I saw him the other day (on social media).”
Jim Courier asked Djokovic if he’d seen a video of Federer skiing with his family.
“I’ve seen him skiing. I want to challenge him for a little skiing race in few years time,” he said.
“He is enjoying life for sure. It’s nice to see that. Obviously, for tennis, he has been one of the most important players ever to play the game. So, you know, big regards to him and his family.”
