Roger Federer
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The Slyest Stroke in Tennis June 05, 2024
For my 34th birthday, in 2015, I received two tickets to the men’s quarterfinal of the French Open. I’m a Rafael Nadal loyalist, and I hoped to cheer for the King of Clay. I ended up seeing the Swiss-on-Swiss pairing of Roger Federer and Stanislas Wa...
Inside the Glorious Afterlife of Roger Federer March 15, 2024
The Sheats-Goldstein House, located high up in Beverly Hills, is a James Lautner–designed marvel, with a tennis court, a koi pond, and, from the living room, a sweeping view of Los Angeles, just now easing into spring. Though the home’s owner, courts...
'Break Point' Faults January 30, 2023
Men’s tennis has a problem. For 20 years, the sport has been dominated by the three best, and most popular, players of all time. One barely needs to list their names: Roger, Rafa, and Novak are as ubiquitous as smartphones and have been around for lo...
Ways of Ending October 07, 2022
Early departures, surprise comebacks, protracted witherings, late holdings-on: all different ways of ending things. These are Geoff Dyer’s subjects. At sixty-three, the “Slacker Laureate” is too old to still be zipping between beaches in Mexico and f...
Federer the Great September 20, 2022
I knew that Roger Federer’s tennis career was on life support, but I didn’t think he’d pull the plug so soon. The news that the tennis great will play his last ATP event next week in London comes weeks before my 50th birthday and is a distasteful rem...
How Will We Remember Roger Federer? September 19, 2022
Roger Federer has played more than 1,500 matches in 24 years, and has never quit in the middle of one for injury, illness, exhaustion, burnout, or apathy. His most formidable on-court opponents, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, who have surpassed him...
