Another piece of the Fab 4 is about to say goodbye to tennis: on a moving, endless London afternoon in midsummer, Andy Murray received the embrace of Wimbledon Centre Court, caressed by the sweet words of his friends/rivals, by the tears of his mother Judy and his wife Kim and by the applause of the crowd. The video message that Venus Williams, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic sent was one of the peaks reached at Wimbledon 2024, in terms of emotions. Perhaps one of the most touching moments in the history of recent sport. If Novak Djokovic – together with other tennis players and former tennis players such as Iga Swiatek and John McEnroe was on the court – Federer was not present at the Centre Court during and after the Murray brothers’ match.
Federer, as he himself revealed in an interview with Chris McKendry for ESPN, arrived at the All England Club before the match, meeting Murray inside the corridors of Centre Court before the Scot stepped onto the most famous tennis lawn in the world. And the Swiss’s words express a beautiful message to Murray.
“Andy was there for my retirement at the Laver Cup. I enjoyed playing against him even though he beat me probably 20 times, and obviously I…
