Closest Federer came to a sobbing girl at Basel final.
Posted by tennisplanet on November 8, 2009
The irritating tone he used in his sparring session with the umpire in the third set.
What the umpire really wanted to say was ‘Whatever is coming out of you right now is ONLY because you know you are going to lose this freaking match - to Djokovic of all the freaking people’.
That’s absolutely what the umpire said to himself during the exchange while outwardly responding in a manner that held that picture as obscure from Federer as possible. Remember that umpire smile after that Safin serve challenge? That’s exactly what happened – internally.
