Playing against Roger Federer was always a real event for his opponents. The Maestro represented such a strong symbol that he intimidated almost everyone, and defeating him became the happiest day of one’s life. Arnaud Di Pasquale did it, and also told a crazy anecdote about that day…
In the life of a tennis player, playing against Roger Federer immediately enters the pantheon of accomplishments to be achieved. The Swiss indeed has such an aura that being opposed to him gave a good number of players chills, to the point of paralyzing some of them. Others, however, have managed to overcome this pressure to seek prestigious victories.
Playing against Roger is already something. Imagine what it would be like to beat him. The few players who managed to create the feat of eliminating him will probably remember it for the rest of their lives and can frame the score in their house. Little “Cokarico” moment, since several French people managed to overcome the most beautiful one-handed backhand in history, and we are not shying away from our pleasure…
Arnaud Di Pasquale’s crazy anecdote about Roger Federer after his victory
23 years ago, the Sidney Olympic Games gave way to one of the greatest exploits in the history of French tennis. Arnaud Di Pasquale and Roger Federer met to obtain the bronze medal of the competition and the Habs emerged victorious. If RF was not yet the one we knew later, the feat was nevertheless enormous and ADP returned to it with GQ few years ago :
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Everyone knew he was going to be a great player. Not to the point of winning 20 grand slams, but we knew he had some in the racket and that it would only depend on him. This is one of the last matches where he got angry. Afterwards, he realized that if he wanted to take things to the next level, he had to stop. (…) Our match was not good in terms of level of play, there were so many issues, stress, emotions… We were both very tense.
There were some nice points, but overall it was pretty average. I watched the video and what’s cool is that in this kind of summary, you feel like you played well and you score all the points! He was in tears at the end, but it was during these Olympics that he met his wife, that he failed, so well… Four children since, and I still haven’t received a thank you!
In 2000, Roger was still this fiery young player capable of breaking several rackets in the middle of a match. Losing to Di Pasquale made him cry a lot, but almost buried his fiery temperament at the same time. His meeting with Mirka clearly calmed him down, and he gradually became the elegant and distinguished gentleman that everyone discovered a little later.
Beating Roger Federer for an Olympic medal still sucks. Arnaud Di Pasquale can clearly rejoice at having achieved this feat and the anecdote of tears shows to what extent the Swiss was touched by this heartbreaking setback. The rest is known and he recovered quite well…
2023-09-27 16:53:53
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