Serge Lama, the singer who dreamed of being Roger Federer

They abandoned their stage almost at the same time, each in their own way. The courts for Roger Federer on September 15 after twenty-four years of magic on the professional circuit, discouraged by the state of his bruised knees at 41 years old. The boards for Serge Lama, who followed suit a few days later by announcing the release in October of the last album of his career, Aimer, epilogue of a journey begun more than fifty years ago, also admitting "to be physically damaged". The tennis legend and the giant of French music are now linked by a song, Le Geste de Roger Federer, which the singer dedicated to the Basel. A playful and lively piece, "light as it was on the courts and that we listen with a complicit smile", that its composer will never have the opportunity to sing in a room, since he has also definitively given up performing in concert.

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• Roland Garros Men's Singles
• Roland Garros Women's Singles

"I imagine I would have interpreted it by repeating a gesture of which he has the genius; but...

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