Qatar Open - Roger v Mandy

Roger lost to the Mandbot AGAIN. This is becoming a Thing. It's a thing where he wins a set and then gets spooked and crumbles and then Mandy crushes him. Mandy played really well today, and Roger really did not. He threw a water bottle over his shoulder at one point - dramatic stuff from Roger.

"It is disappointing to lose after the first set when things were going my way," Federer said. "I just couldn't give the knockout punch. But it is not a big thing."

"Andy is a tough player against me," he added. "I hope when big matches come, I beat him."

So cool and understated, but really he looked so fucked off with himself.

I read an anecdote in one of Roger's biographies ('Fantastic Federer' for the interested or those planning to stage an intervention) about the time he lost a match and got so angry with himself he cried and hid under the umpire's chair and wouldn't come out (although he was 10, not 27). Although I didn't see the final set, I'm guessing his inner child was back under the umpire's chair today.


That is, actually, a tennis ball.

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