Roger Federer Laver CUP – Federer Tsitsipas Selfie: The magic and charm of Roger Federer has bugged the fans and tennis fraternity alike. Federer has started practising for Laver Cup at O2 Arena in London. And his practice partner on Tuesday Stefanos Tsitsipas had a very special request for the TENNIS LEGEND. After the session got over, Tsitsipas like as KID asked for a SELFIE with the great man. Follow LAVER Cup 2022 LIVE updates & Roger Federer’s LAST Tournament LIVE updates with InsideSport.IN
Federer Tsitsipas Selfie: Federer obliged and took a selfie first with Tsitsipas and than the former Swedish world number one, 11 time grand slam winner and captain of team Europe, Bjorn Borg also joined the fun. A session ended with the trio taking a selfie.
Roger Federer and Stefanos Tsitsipas take their first steps (and swings) back on the #LaverCup court …
— Laver Cup (@LaverCup) September 20, 2022
… with a little help from Bjorn Borg. pic.twitter.com/jp1a9VLsBG
“You have the big four (Federer, Nadal, Djokovic and Murray) it’s very special for Tennis in general – probably the last time they’ll play together. I’m happy to be part of this history,” Borg was quoted by the Laver Cup social media team.
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Both Rafael Nadal & Novak Djokovi also met Federer during the practise and gave him a WARM HUG. Even though it was expected for some time, Federer took over the Tennis and the sports world by surprise when he made the announcement of his retirement last week.
The best part of #LaverCup: Rivals become teammates 🤝 pic.twitter.com/vNDfPkRxea
— Laver Cup (@LaverCup) September 20, 2022
Tributes from across the world have since poured in and come the Laver Cup, all the eyes will be on the 20 time grand slam winner whose career spanned across four decades.
Federer, who has won 20 Grand Slam titles including a record eight Wimbledon championships, will retire aftee the Laver Cup this weekend.
“It’s been an emotional few weeks to go through those words to try to get them right, that they reflect how I’m feeling and thanking all the people who have helped along the way.
“I always pushed my retirement thoughts away.
“I said, the more I think about it, the more I’m already halfway retired and this is not the way to go to work, you know, for me as a tennis player, so we’ll deal with it when it comes.
“And it did. And I dealt with it.”