Laver Cup

An emotional Roger Federer has lost his final professional tennis match, playing doubles alongside Rafael Nadal in the Laver Cup.

She kept me going and allowed me to play, so it's amazing — thank you," he said. His final official singles match was a loss in the quarterfinals at Wimbledon in 2021. - It was Federer's final match of his career after more than a year on the sidelines with injury Federer had the chance to seal victory when he served at match point in a tense deciding tiebreak but it was not to be. An emotional Roger Federer has lost his final professional tennis match, playing doubles alongside Rafael Nadal in the Laver Cup. Roger Federer loses final match of his career alongside Rafael Nadal in Laver Cup

Roger Federer brought the curtain down on his illustrious career in an emotion-packed Friday night session at London's O2 Arena, finishing his final match ...

Three times he and Nadal were two points from victory – at 5-4 and 6-5 in the second set and 8-8 in the match tiebreak – and they moved to within a point of victory at 9-8. “It does feel like a celebration,” he told the crowd, “it’s what I wanted it to be, so thank you. The match itself was the perfect way for Federer to go out. In the third game he moved for a forehand down the line and threaded it through the tiny gap between the net post and the net. It ended two-and-a-quarter hours later with Sock wrong-footing Nadal with a forehand up the alley, but from then on the American pair took a back seat as the show belonged to Federer. But Friday’s story was all about Federer and the final chapter of a career that signs him off him as one of the greatest athletes in the history of sport, not just tennis.

Matteo Berrettini is an especially handy alternate for Team Europe at Laver Cup London 2022.

“Watching them as a kid, I was cheering for them,” Berrettini says of the Big Four. “It’s one of the most historical cities we have for tennis, and not only for tennis,” says Berrettini, who got his first taste of Laver Cup action last year in Boston. “Probably one of the best things about these things is that everyone is so different from each other,” says the world No.15. The O2 Arena, I love that arena, and I’m sure it is going to be great to play there. Team World’s only point during the weekend, however, came when John Isner and Denis Shapovalov defeated Berrettini and Alexander Zverev in doubles in another Laver Breaker to end Day 1. The team is unbelievable.”

Rafa Nadal has pulled out of the remainder of the Laver Cup due to personal reasons after partnering friend and rival Roger Federer in a doubles match that ...

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