Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartorii.

I'm Matt's Vylander. This is Mary Carillo.

I'm Stan Ravinka. I'm Lainey Huit.

This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast.

Hello folks and welcome to the Oto Arena.

It's been a familiar venue for us over the last decade and more because of the ATP finals

being staged here next few days of course the Lava Cup.

But we're all here the world's media to talk to one man,

Rosha Federer because as you know by now he has made the decision to retire

and this is his final press conference as a professional tennis player.

And I thought you might like to listen to what he had to say.

Roger, what do you think Redo Schmidley to whom you lost your first junior match,

six love, six love, would make of your career and what would Peter Carter be saying today?

I mean honestly I think any junior that probably played against me back in the day we would have

never thought that I was going to be sitting here at 41 having my final press conference and looking

back at all the many moments and matches that I played so it's not just for one person I think

I could speak for almost any junior national international local because you do not think that far.

You know when you have a vision of being a champion you see yourself winning one tournament or maybe

becoming world number one but not many many times in a row and staying there for as long as I did so

that was definitely a very special look with Peter obviously it's so unfortunate that he didn't see

me getting to the top of the ranking and seeing so many of my most incredible victories but at the

same time he was instrumental to my game to my personality he was not just a bigger brother but

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