Attack again
We searched for a long time, and we ended up finding good news in the news. On March 10, the great Roger Federer, 39, made his return to competition. After two arthroscopies of the right knee and fourteen months of absence, the Swiss competed in the tournament in Doha, Qatar. His last official match was on January 30, 2020, 403 days earlier. Back then, there was a lot of concern about forest fires in Australia, remember?
In his ropes
If Roger Federer never dies, it may be because he always reinvents himself. Take his racket. For a long time, the Swiss have played with the Pro Staff 90 model from Wilson, as iconic as it is hard to master. But, in 2013, Federer undertook what no pro tennis player ever does. He developed a brand new racquet, more powerful, more flexible, giving birth a year later to this one: the Wilson Pro Staff Roger Federer Autograph 97.
Well engaged
On the heel of said racquet, this red dot, adorned with Wilson’s W, will bring back memories, good or bad, to all Sunday players. In matches without a referee, the two players themselves determine who will serve first. It is customary for you to turn the handle of your racquet. It is up to the opponent to guess in which direction the logo will be positioned on the heel. If the player says ” in law “, and the W is in the right way, then he won. If the W is upside down, looking like an M, like here, then he’s lost. The commitment, in any case.
Right in time
On his right forearm, the Swiss sports a terry wrist that we will not allow ourselves to judge, having never really sweated on a court. On the left, he is naked. Linked to Rolex for fifteen years, after wearing Maurice Lacroix models, the Swiss have the obligation to wear the brand during all his official appearances, except in matches. At the end of these, Federer therefore always binds himself to the same gymnastics: he rushes towards his bench, puts on a model (at the moment, an Oyster Perpetual Datejust II) and raises his hands in victory, the watch at wrist.
In the era of fluorescent
If Federer has experience, does he have enough to know that tennis balls were white for a long time? In fact, until the early 1970s, the issue of bullet color was not even a topic. It became one when the games began to be broadcast on TV, and the channels demanded that the visibility of the balls be increased. The most conspicuous color of the chromatic spectrum, fluorescent yellow was chosen in 1971, the first balls tested in 1972 and the obligation to play with fluorescent yellow balls on the pro circuit established in 1978. Three years before the birth of the champion .
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