{"id":678734,"date":"2026-07-07T15:38:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T15:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/678734\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T15:38:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T15:38:16","slug":"roger-federer-pictured-all-alone-in-wimbledon-royal-box-as-celebrities-desert-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/678734\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Federer pictured all alone in Wimbledon Royal Box as celebrities desert match"},"content":{"rendered":"

The former player returned to the scene of his eight men’s singles victories and stuck around for the whole day of tennis<\/p>\n

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\"TOPSHOT-TENNIS-GBR-WIMBLEDON\"<\/p>\n

The 44-year-old returned to the scene of his eight men’s singles victories and stuck around for the whole day of tennis.<\/p>\n

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Roger Federer sat all alone in Wimbledon’s Royal Box on Monday after stars deserted Centre Court. <\/p>\n

Federer, the legendary former World No. 1, cut a lonely figure as he watched Alexander Zverev\u2019s match on Centre Court. <\/p>\n

The 44-year-old returned to SW19, the scene of his eight men’s singles victories<\/a>, where he received a hero’s welcome from the crowd.<\/p>\n

The Swiss tennis legend stuck around for all of the day’s tennis<\/a>, earning him admiration and respect from the crowd.<\/p>\n

The day’s action kicked off at 1.30 pm with Jasmine Paolini’s gritty win over Alexandra Eala, and didn’t wrap up until 11pm – nine-and-a-half hours later.<\/p>\n

Read more: British wildcard Arthur Fery stuns Wimbledon by reaching first Grand Slam quarter-final<\/a><\/p>\n

Read more: Every celebrity in the Royal Box at Wimbledon 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

\"TENNIS-GBR-WIMBLEDON\"<\/p>\n

The Swiss tennis legend stuck around for all of the day’s tennis, earning him admiration and respect from the crowds.<\/p>\n

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Federer stayed on to watch British wildcard Arthur Fery’s four-hour long clash with Grigor Dimitrov<\/a>.<\/p>\n

An ebullient Fery paid breathless tribute to his beaming hero Federer, describing him as the “greatest of all time”.<\/p>\n

Speaking on court after the sensational five-set match, he gushed: \u201cWe\u2019ve got probably the greatest of all time watching over there, I saw him and now playing here in front of all you guys and winning and having the support is unbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Several stars left the Royal Box <\/a>for a break after Fery’s thumping win.<\/p>\n

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Federer beamed as Fery paid tribute to the ‘greatest’ tennis player .<\/p>\n

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\"Day<\/p>\n

An ebullient Fery paid breathless tribute to his beaming hero Federer .<\/p>\n

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But not Federer, who stuck around to watch Zverev face off against Jiri Lehecka.<\/p>\n

Federer did take a short break after the first set, returning to a score of 3-2 in the second. <\/p>\n

Stars slowly began to rejoin Federer in the Royal Box as the clash went on. <\/p>\n

Paolini also paid heed to her “idol” Federer, adding: \u201cI feel so happy to have this opportunity and to get the win as well \u2013 and I want to thank Roger because he is my idol.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was saying: \u2018Stay focused, don\u2019t think about how he is here!\u2019 I watched all his finals here, so this is an amazing feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former player returned to the scene of his eight men’s singles victories and stuck around for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-678734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}