Alexander Zverev can easily have a career as a Master of Ceremony if the tennis thing doesn’t work out as the German gave the perfect introduction to Roger Federer during the Laver Cup gala night on Thursday in Prague.

Zverev, who is 16 years younger than Federer, recalled a time when he met the Swiss legend as a five-year-old at the Hamburg Masters, where he asked him for his autograph.

“I was just looking at him, ‘can I please have an autograph?’He was ‘like, yeah sure’…” said Zverev.

“He started responding to me in German, which back then, as a kid, I didn’t know that Swiss people speak German. So you know, that was very nerve-wracking, so I got his autograph, he started talking to me, he said ‘well maybe if you work hard, one day we might be playing each other, somewhere’.

“And I was like, ‘well yeah, maybe’ (laughter). But no chance you could have known that we would have been on one team.

“So please welcome 19-time Grand Slam champion, Roger Federer.”

Federer gave Rafael Nadal an equally-impressive introduction, recalling the time the Spaniard beat him in their first-ever meeting in Miami.

Watch the video above for highlights from the gala night and footage of their introductions.

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