Roger Federer: Tennis God and man of the people
The Hindu“ Champions are people who want to leave their sport better off than when they started.” — Arthur Ashe “ Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.” — Edgar Allan Poe Wherever historians may place Roger Federer in the tennis pantheon, he ranks No. John McEnroe, who once owned an art gallery and said the compliment he relished most during his 1980s halcyon days was being called an artist, commented, “Roger Federer is the most beautiful player I’ve ever seen on a tennis court, without question.” The renowned writer David Foster Wallace, a tennis lover, invoked religion to praise the beauty of Federer in his 2006 New York Times essay “Federer as Religious Experience”: “The metaphysical explanation is that Roger Federer is one of those rare, preternatural athletes who appear to be exempt, at least in part, from certain physical laws,” rhapsodised Foster. In 2014, Roger Federer said he was very proud that “I haven’t had a cramp since ’99.” Roger Federer revealed what changed his career in 2003 and turned him into a champion. Roger Federer’s 2019 tennis exhibition in Mexico City drew 42,000 spectators, a record, far surpassing the then-record 30,472 crowd that witnessed the famous “Battle of the Sexes” at the Houston Astrodome in 1973. Queen Elizabeth, seated next to Roger Federer at the 2010 Wimbledon player luncheon with the Queen, said to him, according to Federer: “She said I should hit more backhands down the line.” Tributes to Roger Federer “I’ve always been a big fan of tennis, there’s nowhere better than Wimbledon.