Let’s say it straight away: there is nothing to worry about for Roger Federer. Intelligent and with his feet firmly held on the ground by his inner circle, the Basel player has built a life off the courts with the same mastery that allowed him to drop incredible half-volleys – which it is painful to talk about in the past tense! Probably more painful for us than for Federer himself who, carried by an extraordinary aura, will experience this transition not as this “little death” promised to athletes who leave competition, but as a second birth. With a silver spoon in his mouth.
