“He likes to play kind of bullets to kill time and distract himself” - Ljubicic reveals Federer’s interest in chess

Ivan Ljubicic has a keen interest in tennis and the Croatian revealed that Federer enjoys the game as well.

Roger Federer is a very competitive person which is what got him to the top of tennis in the first place. The Swiss player is a fan of many other sports besides tennis having played football at a very good level as a youngster.

His former coach Ivan Ljubicic revelaed his interest in chess in a recent interview as well:

"He likes to play kind of bullets to kill time and distract himself. I know more (than Roger) or less but I prefer not to talk about it. He would not enjoy me talking about it."

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Bullet tennis is a fast-paced tennis format where players need to make quick decisions and live with the consequences. It's quite similar to tennis with Ljubicic revealing how Federer got into the game:

"He got hooked by seeing how fanatic I was about it. He had the basics and I honestly don't know if he still does it because we haven't spent a lot of time together in 14 months since he had surgery but yeah he also knows the general ideas of what's happening in the chess world."