How similar is Federer's accent to the Irish?

[Break To Win]

I read about some Irish people commenting that Federer speaking English sounds a bit Irish.

Honestly, I don't think it's that similar.

I just know that Federer sounds neither British nor American.

Could some Irish people respond about this?....and of course, if the Swiss can also respond

 

[RS]

 

[King_olaf_the_hairy]

Roger Federer in his own words:

vs

Comedian Dara O'Briain:

Olympic rowers Gary and Paul O'Donovan:

Golfer Shane Lowry:

I'm going to have to say no.

 

[Olli Jokinen]

Just no.

 

[Vincent-C]

Not at all, really. BTW, I love an Irish accent.

 

[Mustard]

Irish?

The guy above is Tim Cook (played by George Sweeney) in 2 episodes of The Sweeney. He's the most memorable and notorious villain of the entire series, characterized by four things, an actual misogynist (i.e. a hatred of women), a British Army veteran in Northern Ireland, a hatred of the Irish and Irish accents, and the shortest fuse of a temper ever. He's unnerving to watch.

 

[Mainad]

He certainly doesn't sound Irish to me. I just assume he speaks with a Swiss accent!

 

[FlyingSaucer]

Not even a little bit.

If you go back far enough in the archives, you can listen to Fed speaking English with a slight South African accent.

 

[shinminsoo86]

Schwyzerduitsch - nized english.

 

[Midaso240]

Not really, he has a very unique accent, very hard to define. The only one in tennis or elsewhere I can think of kind of similar is Dimitrov

 

[skaj]

Sounds German to me. Don't remember ever thinking it's Irish.

 

[BeatlesFan]

Not really, he has a very unique accent, very hard to define.

I always assumed Fed's accent is unique because he grew up with two mother tongues. His mother only spoke English to him and Robbie only spoke Swiss German. Lynnette has a South African accent, though Fed speaks more American English.

For instance, he doesn't say "I cahn't," (British), but "I can't." There's many more examples.