You’d never guess from meeting him on vacation in Dubai, still less from watching him play tennis, but Roger Federer, at 25, has a problem. The number one player in the world for more than three years is currently forced to ask himself a question that few have ever had to confront: How do you reveal the perfection of your game when there is no one around to push you to your limits? The very greatest have always been shown in a rivalry worthy of the name: Ali had Frazier, Sampras had Agassi, Woods is lucky to now have Mickelson. Such is Federer’s domination of tennis, however, that he seems increasingly desperate to discover a nemesis. Legends, as he knows, are not created by statistics.
for the full article continue on with the interview in Men’s Vogue.
