If you are not conversant with the voice of the 18-time (out of 23) World Richest Person according to Forbes, it could take you a while to identify the ‘fan’ in the advert as Bill Gates. Tuesday, April 4, 18-time Grand Slam Champion Roger Federer put up the advert for his 4th Match for Africa event on Twitter. Tagging it “Some fans have no respect…” (ah, please, me I am looking for a billionaire fan too 🙁 )
Some fans have no respect… pic.twitter.com/FQkSIr3xnh
— Roger Federer (@rogerfederer) April 4, 2017
Trivia: Without looking at the sponsors list, one could easily speculate from the Advert that it is being sponsored by Nike (Rogers’ outfit), Microsoft (their co-founder, Gates), Rolex (perhaps, the watch Roger wore in the Ad) but how does Starbucks feature?
So, here goes a list of five things I want to highlight to you (with a bonus one at the end):
- Bill Gates and Roger Federer will team up in a doubles tennis match against John Isner and a still-to-be-announced celebrity partner. Afterwards, a best-of-three sets singles match will be played by Roger and John. Fact: John Isner holds the record for winning the longest match in Tennis history at the 2010 Wimbledon Championships. He is also a 10 time ATP Titles winner.
- The match will take place at the KeyArena in Seattle, Washington, USA by 5:30 pm PT on Saturday, 29th April 2017.
- Proceeds from the match will go to the Roger Federer Foundation which currently supports about 277,000 children.
- Tickets for the match are currently on sale here.
- The Charity Exhibition match is organised to support Children’s education in Africa.
Finally, you can visit their official match for africa 4 site for all the information about this event.
Another bit of trivia: Both Bill Gates and Roger Federer are 18-time record holders for something.