Goodbye Roger Federer
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Roger Federer has announced his professional retirement. A career spanning 24 years, Federer began in Gstaad, Switzerland in July 1998, a tournament attended by our own David Law. David details some of his memories, talks to Telegraph Tennis Correspondent Simon Briggs about covering Federer, and we hear from Catherine Whitaker and Matt Roberts, who send in their thoughts and memories via voice note.
If you would like to hear more about Roger Federer, go back to our special episode recorded in July 2017 called simply, The Roger Federer Story.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. |
| 0:01.8 | This is Mary and Bartori. |
| 0:03.1 | I'm Matt's Belander. |
| 0:04.3 | This is Mary Carillo. |
| 0:05.3 | I'm Stan Ravinka. |
| 0:06.3 | I'm Lytton Hutt. |
| 0:07.1 | This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:22.9 | To my tennis family and beyond. |
| 0:26.5 | Of all the gifts that tennis has given me over the years, |
| 0:29.5 | the greatest without a doubt has been the people I've met along the way. |
| 0:34.2 | My friends, my competitors, and most of all the fans who give the sport its life. |
| 0:39.3 | Today, I want to share some news with all of you. |
| 0:43.2 | As many of you know, the past three years have presented me with challenges in the form of |
| 0:47.6 | injuries and surgeries. |
| 0:49.9 | I've worked hard to return to full competitive form, but I also know my body's capacities and |
| 0:55.1 | limits and its message to me lately has been clear. |
| 0:59.4 | I am 41 years old. |
| 1:00.7 | I've played more than 1,500 matches over 24 years. |
| 1:04.5 | The tennis has treated me more generously than I ever would have dreamt. |
| 1:07.4 | And I must recognize when it is time to end my competitive career. |
| 1:12.3 | The Labour Cup next week in London will be my final ATP event. |
| 1:16.7 | I will play more tennis in the future, of course, but just nodding grand slams or on the tour. |
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