A court-side view of the tennis legend’s final professional match
There was smoke rising from a vent. There were pools of red and blue light sweeping across the darkened tiers. There was a DJ playing Euro dance-party hits. There were baseball caps. So many baseball caps. And there was tension in the air. It was the evening session of the first day of the Laver Cup, an indoor men’s tennis competition featuring 12 of the sport’s most high-profile players that takes place two weeks after the US Open in different cities around the world.
Because despite having Laver’s name on it, the Laver Cup was Federer’s idea – he envisioned it to be a tennis version of golf’s Ryder Cup – and it was his own company, TEAM8, plus a couple of business partners, who launched it in Prague in 2017.
Federer’s hype-man for the evening was the somewhat unlikely figure of Murray, who played the session’s opening singles game against Australia’s Alex de Minaur, aged 23 and ATP-ranked 22. Despite groaning and creaking his way around the court like a drowning man in a diving suit, Murray took the first set impressively, before tiring in the second and succumbing in a final tie-break .
A view from the stands of Roger Federer’s final match, a doubles game with Rafa Nadal against Team World’s Jack Sock and Frances TiafoeAnd yet a game was played, the points punctuated by the sound of strangled, mostly male voices yelpingand the breaks filled with glossy, hagiographic videos from Federer’s sponsors on the giant screens overhead.
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