Roger Federer tried in every possible way, he wanted to compete and maybe try to win one last Grand Slam, but he couldn’t do it and in the end he said goodbye to everyone during the Laver Cup. In this competition Roger played a doubles match with his friend and great rival, Rafa Nadal, and the two staged a decent match that generated many tears among the fans.
As the Tour continued its course, Roger stopped and in recent weeks he has participated in various events, including talking about his career. The Swiss champion spoke as a guest on Trevor Noah’s The Daily Show, an American Wednesday night show.
Roger commented many anecdotes related to his career: “It has been a really exciting end of the race. It’s fantastic that I have cultivated and maintained excellent relationships with all my rivals, after everything I’ve been through.
We have seen very tough matches, great victories but also very bitter defeats, but in the end, maintaining these relationships is fantastic.” Djokovic and Nadal? Maybe people don’t know it, but we shared the same locker room and went to the same places to eat.
Usually even to the same hotels. So it happened that we always saw each other and also trained together. Training? Well, at first I trained with Nole and Rafa, then I stopped to avoid them knowing my tactics, I continued training a lot with others, my trusted tennis player was Stan Wawrinka.”
Nobody imagined it, but the relationship between the big three has always been very important and there is great esteem and friendship between them and Roger wanted to underline it once again. Andy Murray was also at the Laver Cup and the public was able to see the Fab Four together again after a long time.
Annacone talks about Federer
Retired American player and Roger Federer’s former coach, Paul Annacone, has given an insight into the Swiss legend’s mindset from the time he was a child. “Yeah, I think it’s almost unfortunate because people thought that it came so easily, he didn’t ever have to do anything,” Annacone said.
“Well, I can tell you first-hand that the pre-season training sessions in Dubai after the US Open with Pierre Paganini and Severin Luthi, it was very strategic. He spent a ton of time in the gym, he spent a ton of time on the practice court.
And one of the things that I found most interesting about Roger was that the first time I met him, we talked about doing something and I asked him to do it, and he said, “Why?” I said, “What do you mean why?” And he goes, “Well, when I was a kid, everyone used to call me the ‘Why Man’
I’m happy to do it but you have to tell me why and how does it fit into my game.” And that mantra lasted from the day he started to the day he stopped as a professional tennis player,” he added.
