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See inside Roger Federer’s teenage bedroom

<p dir="ltr">While Roger Federer’s adult life has been filled with fame and success on and off the tennis court, a throwback photo has revealed that his teenage years were more similar to most of ours than we might expect.</p> <p dir="ltr">A photo of the tennis maestro’s bedroom has been doing the rounds on social media and shows a 17-year-old Federer grinning for the camera with bleach-blond hair, some spots, and wearing a baggy Nike sweatshirt.</p> <p><span id="docs-internal-guid-80512efe-7fff-5421-80f7-aa93133a3cae"></span></p> <p dir="ltr">The future World No. 1’s bedroom walls were covered in posters of his teenage idoles, including Pamela Anderson, and NBA stars Michael Jordan and Shaquille O’Neal.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">A 17-year-old Roger Federer with pin-ups of Jordan, Pamela Anderson and a Macedonian flag 🇲🇰 in his bedroom in Basel 😀 <a href="https://t.co/IPEIqzV9sw">pic.twitter.com/IPEIqzV9sw</a></p> <p>— Luigi Gatto (@gigicat7_) <a href="https://twitter.com/gigicat7_/status/1584598092065648642?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 24, 2022</a></p></blockquote> <p dir="ltr">Other items dotted around his room included what appears to be an Akubra hat, along with the Montenegrin flag, a mini basketball hoop and a collection of trophies.</p> <p dir="ltr">Just five years after the photo was taken, Federer would win his first Major at Wimbledon in 2003.</p> <p dir="ltr">Fans were quick to share their thoughts on the photo, with many sharing lighthearted jokes and commenting on how normal the future star’s room looked.</p> <p dir="ltr">“Lol i like the 90s randomness of it all,” one person shared.</p> <p dir="ltr">“Looks like any normal kids room at the time,” another said.</p> <p dir="ltr">“Really been living up to his two as the blandest white guy on earth since day one,” a third teased.</p> <p dir="ltr">“The GOAT with my country’s flag 😍,” one fan enthused.</p> <p dir="ltr">As for his bleached locks, one fan dubbed it his “Eminem phase”, referencing American rapper’s iconic bleach blond hair which he had during the 1990s and 2000s.</p> <p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-845b454f-7fff-8174-435d-f678f04b1e2a"></span></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Image: Getty Images</em></p>

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Greta Thunberg’s mother opens up on teenager’s childhood struggles

<p>Climate change activism helped Greta Thunberg overcome bullying and an eating disorder, the teenager’s mother has revealed in a new book.</p> <p>The Thunberg family detailed the 17-year-old’s early life in <em>Our House is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis</em>, due to be published in March.</p> <p>In an extract published on <em><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/23/great-thunberg-malena-ernman-our-house-is-on-fire-memoir-extract">The Observer</a></em>, opera singer Malena Ernman explained that her daughter started struggling with selective mutism and eating disorder at the age of 11.</p> <p>“She was slowly disappearing into some kind of darkness and little by little, bit by bit, she seemed to stop functioning,” Ernman wrote.</p> <p>“She stopped playing the piano. She stopped laughing. She stopped talking. And she stopped eating.”</p> <p>Thunberg lost 10kgs in two months. Her parents later found out she was experiencing bullying at school, ranging from being shoved in the playground to being “lured to strange places”. But the school thought it was “Greta’s own fault”, because other students reported that she had “behaved strangely and spoken too softly”, Ernman wrote.</p> <p>Thunberg was later diagnosed with Asperger’s and obsessive-compulsive disorder.</p> <p>She turned a corner after watching a film in class one day about rubbish in the oceans. The whole class was affected, but her classmates soon moved on to other topics, including their teacher’s upcoming trip to New York and other cities with great shopping.</p> <p>“Greta can’t reconcile any of this with any of what she has just seen,” her mother wrote. “She saw what the rest of us did not want to see. It was as if she could see our CO2 emissions with her naked eye.”</p> <p>In the summer of 2018, Thunberg began her first school strike for the climate and started eating again. Her protests started gaining traction around the world.</p> <p>“We get death threats on social media, excrement through the letter box, and social services report that they have received a great number of complaints against us as Greta’s parents,” her mother wrote.</p> <p>“But at the same time they state in the letter that they ‘do NOT intend to take any action’. We think of the capital letters as a little love note from an anonymous official. And it warms us.”</p>

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“Poorly informed teenager”: Vladimir Putin weighs in on Greta Thunberg

<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin has taken aim at Swedish schoolgirl and climate change activist Greta Thunberg, calling her a “poorly informed teenager” who is being “used by adults”. </p> <p>The world leader, 66, said the 16-year-old should quit “telling developing countries why they should live in poverty” over her campaign to cut fossil fuel use.</p> <p>While at the energy forum today Putin expressed he did not share the same excitement about Thunberg’s United Nations speech last month. </p> <p>The swede unleashed at the UN summit in New York when she denounced world leaders for failing to tackle climate change issues. </p> <p>While Putin did not name any specific groups, he said it was “deplorable” Thunberg was being used by groups to achieve their own goals. </p> <p>“I may disappoint you,” the Russian leader said at  a session titled<span> </span>Energy Partnership for Sustainable Growth<span> </span>in Moscow, Russia. </p> <p> “But I don't share the common excitement about the speech by Greta Thunberg.</p> <p>“No one has explained to Greta that the modern world is complex and different and...people in Africa or in many Asian countries want to live at the same wealth level as in Sweden.</p> <p>“Go and explain to developing countries why they should continue living in poverty and not be like Sweden.”</p> <p>US President Donald Trump mocked Thunberg and Canadian Member of Parliament Maxime Bernier labelled her alarmist and mentally unstable. </p> <p>Thunberg was not deterred by the comments however and said the mockery of children who were protesting showed her message had become “too loud to handle”. </p> <p>Putin said while young people who paid attention to environmental issues should be supported, he believes: “when someone is using children and teenagers in personal interests, it only deserves to be condemned.</p> <p>“I'm sure that Greta is a kind and very sincere girl. But adults must do everything not to bring teenagers and children into some extreme situations.”</p> <p>Thunberg made international headlines in September as she inspired millions of people across 150 countries to take to the streets for the Global Strike 4 Climate.</p>

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