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Federer and Nadal’s connection wasn’t just a rivalry. They weren’t best friends, but they weren’t just competitors. There was a mutual understanding that they were, together, creating history.
This iconic video captures the respect, even when victory and defeat separated them.
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They’re crying next to each other. Rafa, Roger. Please make it stop. 🥹
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Federer’s career has been one of firsts, and he did it again tonight, by somehow hitting the ball between the net and the actual net post 😂🔥
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Oh wow. 😳
I never seen this.
Sabalenka smashing her racket after yesterday’s final loss to Coco Gauff ☹️
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One of THE best sporting ads.
Nike - Rafael Nadal (2019) 🎾🇪🇸🔥
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“Tennis is a tough sport, there are no draws, but if there was going to be one, I would have been very happy to accept one tonight, and share it with Rafa, really” - Roger Federer
Pure sportsmanship. Pure class.
Sport is less without this man as an active player.
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ESPN held a vote for the ‘21st Century’s Most Dominant’, in the first two decades of the Century:
🏆 Rafael Nadal at Roland Garros won, beating out Usain Bolt and Michael Phelps at the Olympics.
14 titles.
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TIME just released their ‘100 Most Influential’ people of 2023.
🇦🇷🇨🇭Roger Federer wrote the article for Lionel Messi, who was included in the ‘Titan’ section of the list:
“What stands out to me about Messi, 35, is his consistent greatness over so many years. This is so
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14 YEARS AGO:
🇦🇷 20-years old Juan Martín del Potro WINS the US Open, ends Roger Federer’s 5-consecutive title streak, in a 5-set THRILLER!
Even at one set down, and then two sets to one down (at one point being just *2* points away from the loss), Delpo never gave up, fought
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Novak Djokovic in a flood of tears as he’s cheered back home in Serbia, following his latest Major victory 🇷🇸🥹
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🤣 Voice imitations of players are fun, but imitations of playing styles and subtle on court behaviours are SO much better.
This guy nails it as:
Murray
Djokovic
Wawrinka (the subtlety in this one is superb)
Federer
Nadal
Kyrgios
Tsitsipas
Del Potro
Thiem
Stelios Gkontsaris YT
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🇷🇺 Medvedev won 141 points.
🇮🇹 Sinner won 142 points.
A margin of 1.
Tennis. No sport like it. 🎾
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🇺🇸 US Open 2017 4R: 6 Years ago, Juan Martín Del Potro produced one of his best ever comebacks.
From being two sets down to Dominic Thiem, and looking on the verge of retiring, due to illness, to saving match points and winning in 5 sets!
It would eventually lead him to his
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Coco Gauff: “thank you to the people who didn’t believe it me. A month ago, I won a 500 title, people said I would stop at that. Two weeks ago I won a Masters title, and people said that was as big as it was going to get.
Three weeks later I’m here with this trophy right now.
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A guy watching Fedal, while wearing *11* Federer and Nadal t-shirts 🤯😂
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- No sponsors
- Strings strung at 24lbs (half what is ‘standard’ on the Tour)
- 35 years-old
- At a CAREER HIGH of World
#19
- Through to his FIFTH Fourth Round at the Majors!
Adrian Mannarino! 👏 🇫🇷
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Someone asked Roger to not move while they were taking photos and this happened 🤣🤣
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When Rafael Nadal made this SUPER impressive shot, right into the small commentary booth at the US Open!😯
Even McEnroe was impressed at the precision 😂👏
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These guys have won 62 of the last 70 Grand Slams. 🤯
Legends. All four of them.
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6 years ago today.
“Tennis is a tough sport, there are no draws, but if there was going to be one, I would have been very happy to accept one tonight, and share it with Rafa, really” - Roger Federer
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🎾 Don’t think any other sport has seen this level of consistent domination by three athletes:
Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic have won 82.5% of all Major events played since July 2004.
They have been occupying the World
#1
spot for 909 out of the last 1002
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🇨🇭 When Stan Wawrinka candidly revealed that he suffered a panic attack before the 2016 US Open Final Vs Novak Djokovic, and was close to retiring during the match:
"A lot of people are asking me how I was able to take the court, nonchalantly, when five minutes prior to that I
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Rafa and Mery are now officially PARENTS! 🎉
The baby boy is called Rafael 🥰
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Of course it’s somewhat basic manners, but Stan Wawrinka makes sure to ALWAYS say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ to the ball kid, when asking for a ball between service points, every time 👍🙌
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THREAD 🧵
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY, a sporting legend, Roger Federer, retires.
In fitting fashion, the Swiss legend chooses his biggest rival, Rafael Nadal, to play alongside him in a doubles match, to conclude his career.
Rafa was one of the very first people Roger told of his
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The Cincinnati final Djokovic-Alcaraz final was great THIS is still my favourite *rally* of the year 👽
Sinner Vs Alcaraz Miami 2023 SF 🇮🇹🇪🇸
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🧵 THREAD:
10 YEARS AGO TODAY: US OPEN 2013 FINAL 🔥
A DECADE ago, Rafael Nadal produced one of his best ever hard court performances, and beat World
#1
Novak Djokovic in the final of the US Open! 🔥
This was his *23rd* consecutive hard court match win in 2013, undefeated
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🇨🇭🇪🇸 Roger Federer said Rafael Nadal was the FIRST person he told about his retirement, after informing his family and team about the decision.
When asked if he would play doubles in Roger’s last ever match, Rafa (who was recovering from an abdominal tear he picked up 2 weeks
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Barack and Michelle Obama are in the crowd for the night session at the US Open, Day 1.
Supporting Coco 👏
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John McEnroe, after the Cincinnati final:
“What Alcaraz has done in the last year is unbelievable. He's put himself in a position where you talk about him in the same way as Djokovic and Nadal in a way which is incredible. The best player I've ever seen at his age. It's
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BTW I’m not a big fan of these cameras, and I think players should probably start arguing for more privacy. Even gym stuff, which looks ‘fun’ and harmless is still a bit too much imo
I get tennis is entertainment and this is their jobs, but the mental toll this all takes…
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Ben Shelton’s father on Djokovic:
“He wants to be loved so much, Novak. He wanted to mock Ben at the end. It wasn't something he was doing just to copy Ben. It was to mock him. And that's too bad, for that to come from such a great champion”
Source: GQ Sports 🗣️
📸 Eurosport
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They made history together. From the beginning right up until the end.
Fedal. One of the best rivalries of all time. 🇨🇭🇪🇸
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John Isner retires with a record 14,470 aces.
Poor tennis balls 🥹😂
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🤯 Last time that not one of Federer, Nadal or Djokovic reached the Australian Open Final:
- George W. Bush had just began his 2nd Presidential term.
- The iPhone, YouTube and Twitter didn’t exist.
- Djokovic and Nadal had 0 Majors.
- Alcaraz was 1.5 years old.
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Carlos Alcaraz would love to play doubles alongside Rafael Nadal at the 2024 Paris Olympics, held at Roland Garros:
“It would be a dream to live the experience of playing doubles with your idol" 🇪🇸
Source: Today, El Partidazo de Cope 🗣️
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🇮🇹 Jannik Sinner’s week in Beijing:
- Mocked by his opponent in R1 🤪
- Threw up into a bucket in QF 🤮
- Beat Alcaraz for the fourth time in the SF, taking a lead in the H2H 👏
- Won the title, beating Medvedev for the FIRST time in *7* meetings 🏆
- Didn’t drop a *set*
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Roger Federer, at the US Open (Open Era, ATP):
- Joint most titles won at the US Open (5x) 🏆
- Only player to win 5 CONSECUTIVE titles (also won 5 consecutive Wimbledon’s at the same time 😉)
- Longest winning streak, at 40 matches
- No one has defended a US Open title
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🥹🇷🇸 Just two years ago, Novak Djokovic offered to cover the costs of being a professional player for Hamad Medjedovic, this year’s Next Gen ATP Finals Champion.
His father, Eldin, tells the amazing story:
“I remember the second conversation I had with Novak ever, we spoke
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🏆 US Open 2009:
- Juan Martin Del Potro ended Federer’s FIVE CONSECUTIVE US OPEN title streak (2004-2008) 😮
- It would be the only Major won by the Argentinian, but in one of the most hard fought finals 👏
- Only player not named Rafael Nadal to beat Federer in a Major
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🇨🇭 Stan Wawrinka, in his latest interview:
“Being a contemporary of the Big 3 made me better. They pushed me to improve. I had no choice."
“I am 38 years old, but I feel young (...). I am not winning as much as before, but that is not the only reason why I play Tennis”
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🧠 Rafael Nadal on commitment and giving your all, every single time:
“I just don’t see the point of playing a sport unless you’re giving it your all. The same goes for training, which has caused me problems sometimes when the players I’ve chosen for practice during tournaments
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🇪🇸🇷🇸 A great story about how Rafael Nadal first came to know about Novak Djokovic:
- It was June 2005, Wimbledon’s first round matches had just started, and the year’s third Major was underway.
- Toni Nadal, the coach of the freshly crowd 19-year old Roland Garros winner
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Novak Djokovic and Lionel Messi last night in New York 🇺🇸🇷🇸🇦🇷
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🤯 THE CRAZY STREAK CONTINUES: NOBODY HAS DEFENDED THE MEN’S SINGLES US OPEN SINCE 2008:
2008: Federer ☑️
2009: Federer ❌
2010: Del Potro ❌
2011: Nadal ❌
2012: Djokovic ❌
2013: Murray ❌
2014: Nadal ❌
2015: Cilic ❌
2016: Djokovic ❌
2017: Wawrinka ❌
2018: Nadal ❌
2019:
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This Novak Djokovic quote hits different after the epic match Vs Carlos Alcaraz:
"In January 2012, I beat Nadal in the Australian Open final. The match lasted five hours and fifty-three minutes, the longest in Australian Open history and the longest Grand Slam singles final of
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Nadal on Federer’s Retirement:
“With Roger's retirement, a part of me has left with him”
Djokovic on Nadal’s Likely 2024
Retirement:
“When Rafa said next year would likely be his last, I felt as if part of me was leaving the sport, too”
Amongst all the GOAT debates, the
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The match up won’t happen on the tour again, with Roger’s retirement, but this rally sums up how good Federer vs Nadal was in their prime.
One of the greatest points ever, in the history of tennis 🔥🤯
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🚨
John Isner will retire at the 2023 US Open.
He has played his part in Men’s tennis, from the most aces ever (14,391), to the longest match ever (Wimbledon 2010 vs Mahut, 11 HOURS AND 5 MINUTES) 🇺🇸
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🥹 7 years ago today: Australian Open 2017 Men’s Singles Final
🇪🇸🇨🇭Federer to Nadal -
“Tennis is a tough sport, there are no draws, but if there was going to be one, I would have been very happy to accept one tonight, and share it with Rafa, really”
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🎾 Have to post this guy’s tennis impersonations again. Just SO good! 😂😭
Murray
Djokovic
Wawrinka
Federer
Nadal
Kyrgios
Tsitsipas
Del Potro
Thiem
Stelios Gkontsaris YT 📸👏
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Roger Federer didn’t fit on the ESPN’s Major Tally screen 😭🥲
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The ONLY man this *century* not named Federer, Nadal or Djokovic to win at least *three* of the Majors:
Stan Wawrinka! 🇨🇭
🏆 Australian Open 2014 🇦🇺
🏆 Roland Garros 2015 🇫🇷
🏆 US Open 2016 🇺🇸
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Same players, same court, same epic shots, 8 years apart 🪄🇪🇸🇨🇭
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Carlos Alcaraz at 20:
- US Open Champion 🇺🇸
- Wimbledon Champion 🇬🇧
- Year-End
#1
🌍
- Four Masters Titles
- Wins over Nadal x1 and Djokovic x2
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Judging how people GRIEVE is one of the weirdest things I’ve seen on Tennis Twitter. There is NO wrong way to process loss.
If Sabalenka wants to withdraw from the tournament, then let her do so without judgement.
On the other hand, if she wants to play Miami and practice
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Novak Djokovic has now reached *57* Major Quarter-Finals.
To put that into perspective, if someone was to reach their first QF in 2024, they would need to make *EVERY* Major Quarter-Final between then and 2039 to equal Novak! 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
Nearly 15 years worth of Major QFs! 👏
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Two years ago, 18-year old Emma Raducanu won the US Open. Still some of the craziest stats I’ve seen from one title:
- She was the first qualifier - male or female - to win a Major in the Open Era
- Emma was the first British women to win a Major in 44 years, the first to win
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👴🇨🇭 Stan Wawrinka is the oldest man to win a match at the US Open in *THIRTY ONE* years (Connors in 1992)!
Keep going, Stan. Never gets old. 👏
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🍕🇨🇭 A lesson in sportsmanship, and not losing sight of where you came from:
Every year that he won the title, Roger Federer held a pizza party with the ball kids at the Basel tournament, straight after the final.
He felt it was important to recognise their importance,
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US Open 2007, when an outfit is so iconic it gets given its own nickname:
‘Darth Federer’ 👽🇨🇭
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If a ‘casual’ sports fan asked you to show them a tennis-related clip which would explain or show of the sport in the best way, what would it be? 🧐
I would still go with my favourite rally of all-time, at the 2009 Australian Open between Nadal and Federer👇
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Roger Federer says Rafael Nadal was the first person he told about his retirement to, aside from his team and family.
When asked if he would play doubles in Roger’s last match, Rafa (who was recovering from an abdominal tear) replied:
“I will be there whatever it takes”
🥺🇪🇸🇨🇭
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ANDY MURRAY:
Born in Dunblane.
Made of STEEL.
Forged in FIRE.
5 hours, 45 minutes.
Longest match of his career, at age 35.
Legendary. 🇬🇧🔥
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ONE OF THE BEST TENNIS POINTS THAT I HAVE EVER WATCHED. 🤯
JANNIK SINNER. CARLOS ALCARAZ. AGAIN.
🔥🔥🔥🔥
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WHAT. A. VIDEO.
23 Majors, most weeks at
#1
, most Masters 1000s ever,
AND LOOK WHAT IT MEANS!
Djokovic, Novak, 36 years-old.
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Alcaraz and his brother in tears 😭
We sometimes forget he’s only 20 🥹
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912 weeks in the Top 10, over 17.5 YEARS!
When Rafael Nadal entered the World’s Top 10:
- Djokovic wasn’t inside the World’s Top 140
- Carlos Alcaraz wasn’t even 2 years old
Each Tennis Ball represents a week that Rafael Nadal stayed in the Top 10 for:
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So, Roger Federer *DID* keep his promise, and sent his two boys to a camp at the Rafa Nadal Academy during this Summer 🥹
Full circle 🇪🇸🇨🇭
Source: Wall Street Journal 🗣️
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The moment that you realise you have broken the record for most majors won by a male singles player:
🇨🇭 Federer Wimbledon 2009
🇪🇸 Nadal Australian Open 2022
🇷🇸 Djokovic Roland Garros 2023
Quite fitting that all got the record at some point 👏
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8 years ago, in Cincinnati, Roger Federer unveiled the SABR (sneak attack by Roger)! 💥
His opponents were equally amazed and confused when he brought this out! 🪄
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The intensity on display yesterday between Alcaraz and Djokovic reminded me of this. 💡
Nadal vs Djokovic, Madrid 2009 🇪🇸
Both refusing to yield, just one ridiculous shot after the next. 4 hours and 3 minutes. 14 minutes longer than the Cincy final. 🔥
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A story of willpower, WHEN NOVAK DJOKOVIC ‘RETIRED’ FOR 10 DAYS, March 2018:
- After some serious elbow pain for well over a year, which led to multiple early round losses in nearly every tournament he played, in March 2018, after losing to Benoit Paire, Djokovic gathered his
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😳 5 months ago, Jannik Sinner had never won a title above ATP 500 level.
‘Too Mentally Weak’
‘Too Skinny’
Today, he is the winner of a Masters 1000 title, the ‘MVP’ of the 2023 Davis Cup Winning Team, and now the AUSTRALIAN OPEN 2024 CHAMPION!
Take a bow, Jannik! 👏🇮🇹
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🚨 ATP launches ‘Baseline’, a new financial security system, to help players maintain a fair level of income:
⁃ Pillar 1 - Guaranteed Base Income - guarantees minimum income levels for the Top 250-ranked singles players each season. In case a player's prize money earnings
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McEnroe seems to confirm that he - and Borg (?) - will step down as Team captains after next year
Who’s up for Federer and Del Potro replacing them? 🤩
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🇪🇸🧠 Very insightful from Rafael Nadal, on treading the fine line between *healthy* and *unhealthy* discipline:
“To deny yourself necessary pleasures would be counterproductive. You’d end up feeling bitter, hating training, and even hating tennis, or becoming bored by it, which
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Federer saying he told Rafa about his retirement *ten* days before the public announcement shows the relationship they have developed. It’ll be on full display tonight 💪
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Federer on his aim for this year’s Laver Cup:
“Maybe I can play doubles with Rafa, that would be an absolute dream”🇨🇭🇪🇸
Via SRF 🗣
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Drama. 😮
🥁 The Team GB section was playing drums during Djokovic’s interview, after knocking Great Britain out of the Davis Cup:
Novak replied: "Learn how to respect players, learn how to respect people, you shut up, you be quiet."
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The year is 2036, Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz are still playing this 1-3 game in the third set…
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🇫🇷🇷🇸 Marion Bartoli on Novak Djokovic:
“If he were American, he would have a statue in every city! The fact that he is Serbian means that he is not as publicised”
Source: RMCLive 🗣️
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🇨🇭One of Roger Federer’s best stats:
*36 CONSECUTIVE Major quarter-finals*
To put that into perspective, if someone was to make their first QF at the 2024 Australian Open, they would need to continue making them at every Major QF until the *2032* US Open 🤯
🇪🇸 Likewise,
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12 years ago today, Novak Djokovic hit *THAT* return, 2 match points down Vs Roger Federer in the semi-finals of the 2011 US Open.
As close as the tournament ever got to a Federer-Nadal match in New York.
Two days later, he won the title. 😯
Federer went on to say: “It's
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🇨🇭 Roger Federer, when asked this week about how it felt to sit in the Royal Box at Wimbledon:
“My dad leaned over and asked me,
‘Wouldn’t you want to be on the court right now instead of just sitting here?’
“And I was, ‘Oh, my God, no. I’m so happy sitting here.’”
Source:
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