Look at Roger Federer, He’s No.1: Indian Women’s team captain Mithali Raj

Look at Roger Federer, He’s No.1: Indian Women’s team captain Mithali Raj

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Recently, Indian women’ Cricket team Captain, Mithali Raj has claimed to be inspired by Roger Federer. She spoke to Telangana Today and said “Federer’s performance towards the latter part of his career is inspiring.”

Roger Federer has inspired players across generations, sports and countries. Recently, the Indian cricketer, Mitali Raj also praised Federer while speaking of the inspiration she gets from him.

“Performance is important and not age”- Mithali on Roger

While Roger Federer turned 39 this week, he is still going strong in the tennis world. At the beginning of this year, he decided to drop out of tournaments to recover completely from his injury. On the other hand, Raj at 37 is still inspiring a lot of young girls to take cricket.

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While speaking to Telangana today she said, “Look at Roger Federer. At that age, he is No.1 in tennis. People who are playing for a long time always find motivation and these players like Federer are the driving force to perform at our best at that level.”

Roger Federer has 20 Grand Slams to his name and has competed with players like Andre Agassi to a rising star like Nick Kyrgios. Yet his game has only become better over the years. He has inspired young players all across the world to pick up a tennis racket.

Mithali Raj

“Performance is important and not age”When it comes to performance, one has to perform. I’m still motivated and I’m still hungry for runs.” Raj said.

Mitali Raj has currently retired from the T-20 and Test format but represents India at the ODIs. She was recently tagged by Lisa Sthalekar in a tweet about the postponement of the Women’s’ tournament but not of Men’s’. she wanted to share the sexism that exists in the sports fraternity.

Mitali Raj added that eventhough, this means the delay of another year, she looks forward towards it. Similarly, Roger Federer too has to wait for another year to participate in the tour itself. He is currently recovering from a knee injury.

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