Nom!

Roger is dressing up like a bowl of Neopolitan icecream for his latest tournament. I am so incredibly enamoured of his look:

( behold the rog )

Also a couple of really interesting thing in his presser about how Mirka was his sort of not really coach (she totally was) and how he met Reto Staubli, his Swiss banker best friend.

Q. You’ve had a period of time when you’ve had no coach. Can you say that you acted like a coach to analyze your own game?

ROGER FEDERER: Well, I spoke a lot with Mirka, you know, because she was a player, too. She understood my game. She came to every practice back then and watched every match. I don’t... I don’t call her my coach, but we just chatted about it. And I had a friend also helping me out a little bit. You know, he was working at Credit Suisse, at the bank, and he played a little bit before, too, and he would just occasionally come and say hi and I would speak to him about it, too. And he put me in a really good mindset as well sometimes.

He just said, You’re a really good player, play on your terms, and do what you do best, use your forehand, whatever it was. And he was just giving me reassurance that I was thinking the right things, too, and I had incredible success. And I was obviously, you know, playing great tennis week in and week out, and that was a tough thing to do, because I used to be famous for being inconsistent in a way. And all of a sudden I was becoming super-consistent