Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartorri. I'm Matt's Vylander. This is Mary

Carillo. This is Pam Shriver. I'm San Roenca. I'm Lighten Hutt. This is Yannick Noah and you're listening

to the tennis podcast.

On a very different tennis podcast for you today because we are joined by a guest,

Christopher Clary from the New York Times, who has just written a new book about the life and

career of Roger Federer. It is called The Master. It's a book that Chris was kind enough to send

to Matt Katherine and myself in advance. We want to talk to him about it and find out everything

that he went through in terms of the process of writing it and what he learned in that process.

Matt is here with me. He's going to have a chat about the book after we've heard this interview

with Chris Clary from the New York Times. Well, Chris, great to have you with us as always on the

tennis podcast and now with another subject to discuss and it feels like a really meaningful and

important subject, particularly now because of everything that we've learnt about Roger Federer

recently and what he's been going through. But before we get into that, maybe you could just

tell me why a book about Federer. You've been covering a lot of people over a lot of years. Why Federer?

I just felt for a couple of reasons, David. I felt like I had had a privileged

opportunity in the last 20 years to really spend a lot of time with him and quality time across

a number of years and a number of places and a number of continents. I think I would have had a

big regret. I'm more of a person who wants to live with disappointment instead of regret. I really

wanted to realize over time capture this. I felt like it was a special opportunity. He'd given me

in the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune. Also, I felt like this era in

Minnesota has really been exceptional. I wanted through Roger's story to explore the rivalries

in this era and not just Novak and Rafa and Andy Murray, but the ones that came earlier,

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