“A tennis player, plain and simple” – Federer, undone by his own tears, takes his place in the Hall of Fame

Roger Federer thought he could hold it together. He could not. Inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport on Saturday night, the 20-time Grand Slam champion set out to deliver a composed speech and instead broke down again and again, wiping his eyes and pleading for “tissues and sunglasses.” “I thought I was doing so well for a second,” he said at one point…

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