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by Florian Goosmann
last edit: Dec 06, 2019, 08:43 am
With the tennis genius , the Swiss journalist René Stauffer presented the standard work on Roger Federer back in 2006. After the spectacular comeback of the meanwhile 20-times major winner but it was time for something new.
Roger Federer - The biography is the 351-page work Stauffer now, Federer's longevity and his influence on tennis history have led the man of the Tages-Anzeiger to "write from scratch" Federer's biography, as he explains in the preface. "Because now it was clear that one or two additional chapters would not be enough to live up to his career, his life and his importance in the sport of tennis." Too much had happened in the more than ten years, which now has become much clearer and analyzed Too beautiful and wondrous was the story of his return. "
And Stauffer starts with that - or rather, with the shock on 26 July 2016, when Federer declares his end of the season. Stauffer gets to the bottom of it months later and reviews the wondrous days of the Australian Open 2017, when Federer rushes out of nowhere to the title - and finally seems to have solved the riddle Rafael Nadal in the final classic.
Federer in all its facets
Of course, Stauffer also recalls the beginning, his first meeting with Federer in the fall of 1996, when he participates in the Word Youth Cup and honors his reputation as a hothead, because he forgives himself no mistakes. "One should be able to play perfectly", philosophizes the young Swiss at that time - who would have thought that the word "peRfekt" would stand for Federer times like for no second.
Stauffer has met Federer in all the major tournaments over the past 23 years, having conducted many individual interviews with him; He's probably the tennis journalist who knows Federer best. Correspondingly believable he brings the reader also the person behind the tennis player: the husband, family man and businessman Federer. And behind all this, a man who, despite his great successes, never gets off the hook and is not too sorry to personally ring in front of a Wimbledon final and relax to point out a correction in an interview in order to spare a friend possible trouble.
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