After beating Frenchman Richard Gasquet, seventeen-time Grand Slam champion, Roger Federer, is set to face fellow countryman Stan Wawrinka today in an all-Swiss semi-final at the US Open. While I've enjoyed Stan's recent performances and wish him all the best, I am and always will be a Federer fan. Beautiful backhand!
DLG Open
Twenty years ago Nike aired an iconic ad featuring tennis greats Andre Agassi and Pete Sampras in a game of street tennis. This past week (just in time for the US Open) a few more tennis stars joined them for the twentieth anniversary of that ad for another game, and conveniently for us it happened to be right outside our office. There was Serena, Rafa, Maria, Kyrgios, Dimitrov, Madison Keys, Genie Bouchard, McEnroe (providing play-by-play and acting as chair umpire), and, of course, Protima's favorite, Federer.