September 9, 2021 at 5:23 PM
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Is Roger Federer the best tennis player of all time? The debate is lively and the question certainly temporal. On the other hand, is Roger Federer the most influential and important tennis player in history? The answer is yes. And this book explains why. Immerse yourself in the fascinating story of the RodGER myth.
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Roger Federer is 40 years old … including 23 years spent on tennis courts around the world. 23 beautiful years that tennis has seen grow, evolve and soon leave the most beautiful ambassador in its history.
Because the fact that he may one day no longer be the holder of the greatest number of Grand Slams won with 20 successes for the moment (while waiting to be certainly doubled one day) will never change the mark he left in everyone’s memories.
It’s not a bio, it’s much better
A thousand and one things have been written about the Swiss, so what more can we say? This is the crazy and passionate bet that Charles Haroche and Frédéric Vallois, the two authors of the essay, have embarked on: “Federer a contemporary myth” (Solar Éditions).
Rest assured, this is not a wikipedia bio boosted with quotes from here and elsewhere, and embellished with some stats to look pretty. No, it’s an essay, an ode, a critical prose poem.
Because you can be a fan and lucid, love and understand, appreciate and regret, all of this together.
A fascinating text
The two authors drew on their personal, literary, philosophical, sports and media readings to paint a portrait, not of a man, but of an institution.
And as if to ape their idol, the two authors use an effortless style, but no less delicate and precise, to tell how Roger Federer became “one of the most adored sportsmen of all time”.
“The love essay” responds with passion and reason. A bit like Roger Federer.
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