 Federer was born at the Basel Cantonal Hospital in Basel , Switzerland . His father , Robert Federer , is Swiss , from Berneck , near the borders between Switzerland , Austria and Germany ; and his mother , Lynette Federer ( born Durand ) , from Kempton Park , Gauteng , is a South African whose ancestors were Dutch and French Huguenots . Federer has one sibling , his older sister Diana , who is the mother of a set of twins . He holds both Swiss and South African citizenship . He grew up in nearby Birsfelden , Riehen , and then Münchenstein , close to the French and German borders and speaks Swiss German , Standard German , English and French fluently , Swiss German being his native language . 
 Federer was born at the Basel Cantonal Hospital in Basel , Switzerland . His father , Robert Federer , <a href='drop_aux' title='1'><mark>is</mark></a>Swiss , from Berneck , near the borders between Switzerland , Austria and Germany ; and his mother , Lynette Federer ( born Durand ) , from Kempton Park , Gauteng , <a href='drop_aux' title='2'><mark>is</mark></a>a South African whose ancestors <a href='uninflect' title='3'><mark>were</mark></a> Dutch and French Huguenots . Federer <a href='got' title='4'><mark>has</mark></a> one sibling , his older sister Diana , <a href='null_relcl' title='5'><mark>who</mark></a><a href='drop_aux' title='6'><mark>is</mark></a>the mother of a set of twins . He <a href='uninflect' title='7'><mark>holds</mark></a> both Swiss and South African citizenship . He grew up in nearby Birsfelden , Riehen , and then Münchenstein , close to the French and German borders and <a href='uninflect' title='8'><mark>speaks</mark></a> Swiss German , Standard German , English and French fluently , Swiss German being his native language . 
Federer was born at the Basel Cantonal Hospital in Basel , Switzerland . His father , Robert Federer , Swiss , from Berneck , near da borders between Switzerland , Austria and Germany ; and his mother , Lynette Federer ( born Durand ) , from Kempton Park , Gauteng , a South African whose ancestors was Dutch and French Huguenots . Federer got one sibling , his older sister Diana , tdamother of a set of twins . He hold both Swiss and South African citizenship . He grew up in nearby Birsfelden , Riehen , and then Münchenstein , close to the French and German borders and speak Swiss German , Standard German , English and French fluently , Swiss German bein his native language .