Roger Federer schools Princess of Wales after breaking Wimbledon law

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While Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, and Roger Federer were practicing on a Wimbledon court during their visit to The Championships, Middleton, playing the role of a ball girl, caught a ball before letting it bounce once, which is against the rules of the prestigious grass grand slam.

"The differences between us and the @australianopen, as told by @rogerfederer and our Ball Girl Mollie…" Wimbledon captioned the video of the moment.

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Roger Federer and Kate Middleton visited Wimbledon "to shine a light on what it takes to be a Ball Boy or Girl at Wimbledon".

Roger Federer met with Kate after a Twitter conversation

Earlier this week, Roger Federer told the Prince and Princess of Wales, Kate Middleton and Prince William, that he would be glad to join them for a round of tennis at Wimbledon.

Count me in 😎 https://t.co/XKrpuRDw0M

— Roger Federer (@rogerfederer) June 24, 2023

Whether this is novel news or not, Federer is a well-regarded friend of the Royal Family. Virginia Wade, a British tennis legend revealed last year that the Queen "knew everything about Federer." "The next time she came to Wimbledon was in 2010 and there was a very select group of us sitting at lunch with her.

There were three Wimbledon ladies’ champions and Roger Federer and his wife. Roger was on the Queen’s right and I was on the left. Everybody had big eyes but it was wonderful to see Federer so entranced by what she was saying.

We all had this really in-depth, diverse conversation and she knew all about how tennis was going. She knew all about Roger, and I think she knew about me," Wade wrote for Eurosport in September.

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