Roger Federer’s Life After Tennis: Less Cardio, More Carpool

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In the year since Roger Federer announced his retirement from professional tennis, the 42-year-old Swiss athlete has been busy—co-chairing the annual Met Gala fundraiser, sitting front row at Dior’s couture show in Paris and, recently, debuting a tennis collaboration between Uniqlo and the fashion label JW Anderson. None of it has been as time-consuming as Federer’s new role as a carpool dad. “I’m basically a professional driver now," he said in a recent interview.

“I take the kids to tennis, back and forth, drop off at school, pick up. Yesterday morning we even picked up a friend on the way to school. The logistics with the four is nuts." Federer chauffeurs his 9-year-old twin boys and 14-year-old twin girls to school three to four times a week, playing Queen, Jon Bon Jovi and the Backstreet Boys on the stereo.

He also regularly badges in at the headquarters of On, the Swiss sportswear giant where he owns a minority stake and serves as a creative partner. Below, Federer discusses the pickleball craze, a new sneaker he helped design and his ultimate cheat food. What time do you wake up on Monday morning and what’s the first thing you do? Seven is when the alarm goes.

I open the blinds, grab espresso and then it’s all about getting the kids ready for school. We have breakfast together. They have a little cereal, eggs, porridge and fruit salads, but I don’t have much.

I’m happy with a coffee. What do you do after drop-off? I go straight to the gym. I’ve had quite a bit of knee issues, so I’m constantly rehabbing.

I haven’t been able to do much cardio—mostly weights, core exercises, exercises for my quad-strengthening. I have a physio I’ve been with for seven years, and we see each other four times a week. He does