In 1999, Bauer collected Federer’s tennis balls as a ball boy at a tournament in Ljubljana, as “Blick” wrote in Monday’s edition. “I kept a smashed racket from that time, believing it was Roger’s,” the now 37-year-old television pundit told the newspaper.
When Bauer heard that he would be traveling to Lenzerheide for the Biathlon World Cup, he sensed his chance: Federer owns a property in Valbella. “It was always my dream to have him sign the racket.”
World Cup organizers helped Bauer arrange a meeting with his former idol. When the two athletes met, it emerged: The racket wasn’t Federer’s at all. “Roger told me he never played that model.” Bauer is still overjoyed. Federer still remembers the tournament in the Slovenian capital very well. (sda)
2023-12-18 06:21:12
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