It's game, set and match for Swiss tennis champion Roger Federer, who has retired from tennis after a career that brought him 20 Grand Slam titles.
Federer bid adieu Friday night with one last contest before he heads into retirement at age 41 after a superlative career that spanned nearly a quarter-century.He wrapped up his days as a professional player with a loss in doubles alongside his longtime rival Rafael Nadal for Team Europe in the Laver Cup against Frances Tiafoe and Jack Sock of Team World.
The truth is that the victors, the statistics and the score did not matter. The occasion was, after all, about the farewell itself.
Or, better, the farewells, plural: Federer’s to tennis, to the fans, to his competitors and colleagues. “It's been a perfect journey,” Federer said. “I would do it all over again.”When the match and, with it, his time in professional tennis ended, Federer hugged Nadal, then Tiafoe and Sock.