Roger Federer of Switzerland poses with the Qatari Tennis team children during the opening of the Qatar Open tennis tournament in Doha in this January 3, 2011 file photo. There are few parts of the world where Federer, the man considered as the greatest ever tennis player and holder of a record 17 grand slam titles, is not instantly recognised. In rural South Africa where he is visiting one of the village pre-schools his charitable foundation supports, the Swiss is unfamiliar to the children but commands their attention and curiosity. The Roger Federer Foundation spends over $3 million a year on educational projects in South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Ethiopia and Federer's home country Switzerland, and over 50,000 children benefited from the foundation's efforts in 2012 to improve quality education in pre-schools and primary schools. To match feature TENNIS-SAFRICA/FEDERER REUTERS/Jamal Saidi/Files (QATAR - Tags: EDUCATION SPORT TENNIS)
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