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Friday, December 8th, 2006 03:48 pmremember back in march of 2005 when i read david foster wallace's essay on tennis in a supposedly fun thing i'll never do again, and after posting excerpts of his fascinating portraits of macenroe, agassi, courier, et al., i said i dearly wanted to know what he would have to say about roger federer? i just found a piece he wrote back in august for "play" magazine in the new york times, entitled federer as religious experience, and it is *almost* as awed and rapturous and effusive as i myself feel when i watch him play:
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And there's that familiar little second of shocked silence from the New York crowd before it erupts, and John McEnroe with his color man's headset on TV says (mostly to himself, it sounds like), "How do you hit a winner from that position?" And he's right: given Agassi's position and world-class quickness, Federer had to send that ball down a two-inch pipe of space in order to pass him, which he did, moving backwards, with no setup time and none of his weight behind the shot. It was impossible. It was like something out of "The Matrix." I don't know what-all sounds were involved, but my spouse says she hurried in and there was popcorn all over the couch and I was down on one knee and my eyeballs looked like novelty-shop eyeballs.
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