Roger Federer's agent's son, Nicholas Godsick, congratulates Swiss icon and his sister Bella on getting their degrees from Dartmouth University

Roger Federer's long-time agent Anthony Godsick's son Nicolas Godsick recently congratulated his sister and the Swiss Maestro for receiving their respective degrees from Dartmouth. Federer received an honorary doctorate from the university.

Nicolas took to Instagram to share a congratulatory message for his sister Isabella Godsick for graduating from Dartmouth. He also shared a picture with the Swiss icon and congratulated him for receiving his honorary doctorate of Humane Letters degree.

"Congratulations grad," he wrote congratulating his sister.

"2 grads actually," he wrote as the Swiss posed with the family.

Source- Nicolas Godsick's Instagram handle

Nicolas is an aspiring tennis player who took the college route. He shares a cordial relationship with the former World No. 1 and has served as a hitting partner for Federer on multiple occasions such as Wimbledon 2019, US Open 2019, and the Wimbledon 2022.

He has also had practice sessions with top American players such as Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula. Incidentally, Nicolas' father is also Gauff's agent.

Nicolas Godsick is also the son of former American tennis player Mary Joe Fernandez. She grabbed eyeballs when she won a match at the US Open at just 14 years of age. She went on to reach a career-high ranking of World No. 4 and reached the finals of the 1990 and 1992 Australian Open, and the 1993 French Open.

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Roger Federer - "I believed in myself, but belief in yourself has to be earned"

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Roger Federer gave a commencement speech at Dartmouth, which was part witty and part insightful. The Swiss drew from his life as a tennis player to give life lessons to the graduating class.

He imparted an important lesson that talent alone would not get them anywhere, they had to complement it with hard work.

"Hopefully like me you learned that effortless is a myth. I didn't get where I got them pure talent alone. I got there by trying to outwork my opponents. I believed in myself, but belief in yourself has to be earned," he said.

The Swiss Maestro said that his self-belief started to kick in, in 2003, and from that point, he never tried to shield from targeting the opponent's strength.

"There was a moment in 2003 when my self-belief really kicked in. I was at the ATP finals where only the best eight players qualify, and I beat some of the top players I really, really admired by aiming right at their strength. Before I would run away from their strength. If a guy had a strong forehand, I would try to hit his back hand but now I would try to go after his forehand," he said.