"He will not play again, except in our hearts and our memories": the vibrant tribute of La Tribune de Genève to Roger Federer

By André Boschetti (La Tribune de Genève)

This is the alert that should never have appeared;

the message no one wanted to read.

Roger Federer took the pen, Thursday afternoon, to affix the word "end" to this career which seemed protected from it.

There will of course still be a thrill, in a week in London, in the form of a double, no doubt with alter ego Rafael Nadal.

Tears too, how could it be otherwise?

But this prospect and the few days of respite take nothing away from the vertigo.

It will now be necessary to write, tell, think about the tennis of the “Master” in the past.

A peak of optimism

However, this change of temporality, Roger Federer was not quite ready to embrace it.

Not yet.

When he told us, last November, his

, "RF" believed in it.

The man was not fooled: he saw his age, his knee, the path to reconstruction.

He doubted.

But the champion knew all about his strengths, the weight of his aura, the flaws...

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