WHAT’S IT LIKE TO BE A ROGER FEDERER FAN?
WHAT’S IT LIKE TO BE A ROGER FEDERER FAN?. There are all kinds of players found in all sorts of sports, who dominate and build a legacy. They get their fair share of recognition and appear to be quoted as idols in team sports, because they have mastered their craft. They have an aura like that of divine when they are on the field and seem invincible as well as they also make winning look easy.
Roger Federer has the ability to make the game look ridiculously easy because of his exceptional talent and motivation to reach such a spot.
And this is the reason why millions of fans across the globe are attracted to the game he plays, expecting him to win every point on the field establishing an example on how a game is played with precision.
Everyone is struck with awe when there is a display of tennis by him on the field which tends to be unthinkable before. Even his haters admire his game and study it.
Unfortunately, we won’t see Federer at Wimbledon this year. His supporters cheered him when he celebrated the centenary of Center Court at Church Road where he delivered an emotional speech expressing his desire to play one more Wimbledon and said that he found it ‘awkward’ to be back in the cathedral of the sport, but not as a player.
“I have had my biggest wins and my biggest losses on this court.”, he said this while interacting with Sue Barker. “The 2001 match against Sampras and the 2003 final against Mark Philippoussis are my most memorable matches.”
The pandemic and his knee surgeries have denied him off the tour since January 2020. A player who has always found his fame in being one of the healthiest sportspersons, has seen injuries rob him of his well-earned send-off.
The rivals of Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, have been successful breaking his records since the last two years. In 2021, Djokovic tied him with 20 major titles. Nadal has won his 21st and 22nd Slams in the year 2022, and Federer was left with sending his congratulations to them.
How do his fans feel about this moment? Some of them wish he would retire after his quarterfinal exit at Wimbledon. Others think he will spring back into the court with his racquets in Basel while some have faith in him that, even at 41, he has the ability and capacity to give one final round of brilliance to remember him by 2023.
“I was talking to someone at a party who asked me if I was worried that he would retire after Basel,” Michele Drohan, a New York tennis player and a huge Fed fan , recollected from her memory.
“No, that doesn’t sound like him.’ I think he knows his importance to tennis, and he’ll give his fans around the world a chance to see him again next year.”
“He has to play at least one more Wimbledon,” she went on. “The last one was too anticlimactic. That moment when [Andre] Agassi cried after his last match at the US Open, I think Fed wants to do the exact same thing, and make that speech. Stopping in Basel just doesn’t align with who he is.”
The career of Federer has been about records and numbers and his legend lies in the way he carries himself on the court.
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