"If you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two impostors just the same"
I posted this Federer/Nadal reading of Kipling's If on the first day of the new year. Since then Nadal has been forced to bow out due to injury, and Federer has made a comeback. Reviewing his wikipedia file, I was amazed by Federer's many failures - he has not won every game by a long shot - and by the determination and focus required for his sixth Wimbledon win and his 15th Grand Slam. Here he is, reading If, a poem that clearly inspires him. Perhaps he will teach it to his first child, soon to be born -
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And a little credit for Andy Roddick who has failed far more than he has succeeded, but made two players who were supposed to finish him easily struggle mightily for five sets.
jlh | July 7, 2009 04:00 PM
Posted on July 07, 2009 16:00