{"id":6003,"date":"2013-06-24T16:41:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T16:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6003"},"modified":"2013-06-24T16:41:28","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T16:41:28","slug":"mandela-is-amazing-influential-roger-federer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6003","title":{"rendered":"Mandela is ‘amazing, influential’: Roger Federer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Roger Federer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Seven-time Wimbledon champion Roger Federer hailed ailing Nelson Mandela as “influential and amazing” on Monday as the anti-apartheid icon remained in a critical condition in a Pretoria hospital<\/p>\n

“He’s been very influential, an amazing personality, you know, believed in something, had to pay a big price for it,” said Federer.<\/p>\n

“Someone you can definitely look up to and that’s very important for me. Clearly there’s many that come and go, but he has been there for a very long time.<\/p>\n

“And he’s very much respected and loved. So we hope he does well here now in this process.”<\/p>\n

Federer was speaking after reaching the Wimbledon second round on Monday with a 6-3, 6-2, 6-0 win over Romania’s Victor Hanescu.<\/p>\n

The Swiss star has been a regular visitor to South Africa over the years where he has a charitable foundation.<\/p>\n

The country is also the birthplace of his mother, Lynnette.<\/p>\n

In 2011, Federer was voted second to Mandela in an international survey to find the world’s most respected, admired and trusted personality. – AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seven-time Wimbledon champion Roger Federer hailed ailing Nelson Mandela as “influential and amazing” on Monday as the anti-apartheid icon remained in a critical condition in a Pretoria hospital “He’s been very influential, an amazing personality, you know, believed in something, had to pay a big price for it,” said Federer. “Someone you can definitely look … Continue reading “Mandela is ‘amazing, influential’: Roger Federer”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,700],"tags":[3433,327,3431,2332,3432],"class_list":["post-6003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sport-news","tag-admired-and-trusted-personality","tag-mandela","tag-roger-federer","tag-tennis","tag-worlds-most-respected"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/roger-federer.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6003"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6007,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6003\/revisions\/6007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}