Roger Federer's agent about a complicated moment in the career of the former world leader: “abandoned”
Article by Roxana Fleşeru – published on Friday, October 10, 2025 23:04 / Updated Friday, October 10, 2025 23:29
Tony Godsick, Roger Federer's agent, spoke at the podcast “Served with Andy Roddick” about how the collaboration between the former world leader and Nike was concluded.
“He did not leave Nike, but Nike,” Tony Godsick said in the podcast “served with Andy Roddick”, referring to the time Roger Federer was left without the American equipment sponsor.
The contract between the winner of 20 Grand Slam and Nike trophies lasted between 1994, the year of debut in professional tennis, and March 2018.
“I went to Nike headquarters at the beginning of January 2017 to try to get a new contract. Roger had not won any four -year -old Grand Slam trophy. Two weeks later, he won the Australian Open. I told myself it would be easy, but it wasn't. Then he won Wimbledon 2017 and the Australia Open 2018. But finally, nothing has been materialized ”Tony Godsick revealed.
Uniqlo came to Roger Federer
The agent lived very hard to separate from Nike.
“At that time, I was very upset: I was the agent who could not renew the contract of the best player in tennis history,” he pointed out. Therefore, he mobilized to find a solution and, after a discussion with Anna Wintour, the chief editor of Vogue magazine, would have been directly contacted by the Japanese brand Uniqlo, the one with which he ended his Swiss career in 2022.
Roger Federer with Wimbledon trophy in Nike equipment
In 2018, a $ 300 million contract was talked about a 10 -year period between Roger Federer and Uniqlo. The Swiss appeared for the first time in an equipment offered by the Japanese company at Wimbledon in 2018.
