Both Federer and his career-long rival Nadal crying demonstrates that they have not lost their humanity to the lust for victory
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Has there ever been greater proof that nice guys finish first than Roger Federer?
As his career came to an end you could fill the centre court of Wimbledon with the pages written about his brilliance. His forehand – that liquid-whip as David Foster Wallace so famously described it – his serve, his one-handed backhand. Insert your favourite metaphor – use words like ballet, compare him not to other players but to painters. Compare him to mythology, he is less a man than a god who walked among us!
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