Federer as Religious Experience On the joy of watching Roger play live at Wimbledon. David Foster Wallace Play Aug 2006 30 min Permalink. From “Roger Federer as Religious Experience” (David Foster Wallace) There are three kinds of valid explanation for Federer’s ascendancy. One kind involves mystery and metaphysics and is, I think, closest to the real truth.
In 2020, the absence of Roger Federer was felt a lot, who only played in the Australian Open before undergoing twice surgery on his right knee, ending his season prematurely. As had already happened in 2016, the Swiss phenomenon has decided not to accelerate recovery times also due to the delicate situation linked to the pandemic.
The new pandemic-induced ranking system has allowed the former world number 1 to maintain a place in the Top 5, a very positive news for the Australian Open (the Swiss would have sunk to number 29 ATP without the new two-year ranking) .
The 20-time Grand Slam champion has already targeted Wimbledon and the Tokyo Olympics, which have been postponed by twelve months due to the Coronavirus emergency. During a lengthy interview with Eurosport, Australian snooker phenomenon Neil Robertson praised the 39-year-old from Basel's style of play, able to combine his incredible elegance with an effectiveness that has very few equals in the history of the sport.
Robertson on Roger Federer's style
'I want to play the proper way,' Neil Robertson said. 'You watch people like Roger Federer, and guys like that, the way they go about it and win trophies. I want to win the right way.
I've won enough tournaments mixing it up with different varieties, but I want to win the right way and I think that’s what’s led me to have success these last few years,' he added. Roger Federer's style was probably best captured by American author David Foster Wallace, who described watching the Swiss legend in action as a religious experience.
'Roger Federer’s forehand is a great liquid whip, his backhand a one-hander that he can drive flat, load with topspin, or slice — the slice with such snap that the ball turns shapes in the air and skids on the grass to maybe ankle height,' Wallace had written.
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'Federer's serve has world-class pace and a degree of placement and variety no one else comes close to; the service motion is lithe and uneccentric, distinctive (on TV) only in a certain eel-like all-body snap at the moment of impact.
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His anticipation and court sense are otherworldly, and his footwork is the best in the game — as a child, he was also a soccer prodigy. All this is true, and yet none of it really explains anything or evokes the experience of watching this man play,' he had added. 'Of witnessing, firsthand, the beauty and genius of his game.'