{"id":1655697,"date":"2022-09-23T22:50:11","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T02:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1655697"},"modified":"2022-09-23T22:50:40","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T02:50:40","slug":"tennis-federer-admits-to-last-night-nerves-after-emotional-farewell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tennis-federer-admits-to-last-night-nerves-after-emotional-farewell\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis-Federer admits to last night nerves after emotional farewell"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftennis-federer-admits-to-last-night-nerves-after-emotional-farewell%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1655697&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>LONDON (Reuters) \u2013     Roger Federer may have been one of the sporting world\u2019s great communicators over the last two decades but the Swiss confessed he had been dreading being handed a microphone after his glorious career came to a close at the Laver Cup on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>The 41-year-old polyglot, who has given countless on-court interviews in his 24 years at the top of the game, feared that his emotions would render him inarticulate after his final doubles match at London\u2019s O2 Arena. <\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThis is the part I was extremely worried about, taking the microphone. I (wanted) to be able to have an evening where I do not have to take the mic,\u201d he told reporters. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe you think it\u2019s logical that I have to take the mic. In my mind I didn\u2019t because I know how impossible I am on the mic when I am emotional.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWeeks ago, for a fact, I was so scared of this moment that it really worried me.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>In the event, even though the tears did flow, the 20-times Grand Slam champion was able to find the words to express his feelings to fans, his rivals and his family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was able to remind myself \u2026 how wonderful this is,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not the end-end, you know, life goes on. I\u2019m healthy, I\u2019m happy, everything\u2019s great, and this is just a moment in time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is how I was able to at least say everything I have wanted, I believe. I was able to get to all those places. It was wonderful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That Federer and his great Spanish rival Rafa Nadal lost their doubles match to Americans Jack Sock and Frances Tiafoe barely mattered as the night became a celebration of one of the greatest players to have graced the game. [L1N30U2O1]\n<p>Although he was happy with his farewell address on Friday, Federer said he felt there were a few more words of thanks he needed to dole out to fans in other parts of the world. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was just making sure I relayed my passion for the sport to the fans, and let them know that hopefully we\u2019ll see each other again on a different type of tennis court somewhere around the world,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have no plans whatsoever for where, how, when. All I know is I would love to go and play places I have never played before or go say thank yous for years to come to all the people that have been so supportive of me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe hard part about the Laver Cup was that tickets were already sold out. People who maybe would have also loved to be here couldn\u2019t make it. Maybe there is another way down the stretch we can party all together.\u201d <\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Martyn Herman, writing by Nick Mulvenney,  Editing by Robert Birsel)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/tennis-federer-admits-to-last\/attachment\/laver-cup-20\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8N01E-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8N01E-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (Reuters) \u2013 Roger Federer may have been one of the sporting world\u2019s great communicators over the last two decades but the Swiss confessed he had been dreading being handed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1655697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1655697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1655697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1655697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1655697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}