The court legend on rivalry, reinvention and regret
When Roger Federer sees pictures of himself playing tennis, he struggles to realise it is him. “It’s amazing to think that I used to be out there, on the biggest stages. It almost becomes surreal that this used to be my life.” During his 24-year career, he explains, he was “in a tunnel, riding the beautiful wave, running around the world, running on the tennis court, battling, always trying to be alert, being ready for the next press conference, the next meet and greet, posing with a fan.
So it rattled me, but it also was the most beautiful of challenges I’ve ever had. I’m happy for it, even though in the beginning I was like, ‘I prefer not to go down that route, I’d rather just keep playing my game.’” The rivalries with Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic were of a different order. “When you lose against guys more than, say, 10 times, it rocks you. It needs to. That’s what those three guys did.” But Djokovic didn’t force Federer to remake himself.
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