51,954 people arrived to watch a charity match between the world's two greatest tennis players, Roger Federer of Switzerland and Spain's Rafal Nadal at the Cape Town Stadium here on Friday. The match was named 'The Match in Africa' and was organized by the Roger Federer Foundation to raise $ 1 million for education-related activities in the southern region of Africa. This match has proved to be much higher than Federer's and Nadal's expectations, as a total of $ 3.5 million can be raised from it.
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South Africa is the birthplace of Federer's mother and 38-year-old Federer always gets emotional when he comes here. According to the news AJC Affair, Federer said before the match that it was a magical feeling to face the biggest rival of his tennis career for a noble cause at his mother's birthplace. A doubles match was also played at this tennis event, in which Microsoft was co-founder and billionaire Bill Gates along with Federer. Nadal Comedian and television host Trevor Noh from Africa participated. Federer's mother Lynette tossed the toss coin before the match. Federer and Gates won this one set match 6-3.
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The match between Nadal and Federer was also won by Federer 6-4, 3-6, 6-3. Federer has won a total of 20 Grand Slams while Nadal has won 19 Gland Slams. For this match between these veterans who won 39 Grand Slams, people gathered at the Cape Town Stadium, built for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Organizers say that before this no tennis match attracted more than 50 thousand spectators. This has proved to be a new record.
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