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TC EP - Federer is my 🐐 - #TempleMade

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Career Slam ✅

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@Blutman27 We slog through a year of average matches for the chance at 3-4 of these a year. And I wouldn’t change a thing

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Tennis is the best sport in the world. At its best there is nothing that comes remotely close. Can’t believe what we are watching with @carlosalcaraz and @AlexZverev. #AO2024 delivering all the drama we crave! 🐼❤️🎾

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Tennis is the best sport in the world

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Best match of all time. Best sport in the world. 20 more years of this please.

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@b0mbation

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The Big 4 back together again to celebrate Rafa was what everyone deserved. Roger, Rafa, Novak, and Andy. Thank you for the battles, the tears, the tennis, the everything. There will never be another generation like it again. The best damn sport in the world 🎾❤️

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@b0mbation 11 major finals for Andy. Big 4.

[Roland-Garros @rolandgarros]

✨ Legendary ✨

#RolandGarros

[MLB @MLB]

HE IS BACK.

Ronald Acuña Jr. homers on the first pitch he sees!

[Larry Dougherty @Ldoc32]

Bill Mlkvy is one of the greatest Owls in Temple history. He was larger than life and getting to know him during my time as an Owl was one of my fondest memories. He will be missed. #OwlWithoutAVowel 🦉🙏
https://t.co/71cTJS1x9z

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@MiketheProducer @JohnIsner @BetConnors Don’t test the fantasy Gods.

[Roger Federer @rogerfederer]

Vamos, @RafaelNadal!

As you get ready to graduate from tennis, I’ve got a few things to share before I maybe get emotional.

Let’s start with the obvious: you beat me—a lot. More than I managed to beat you. You challenged me in ways no one else could. On clay, it felt like I was stepping into your backyard, and you made me work harder than I ever thought I could just to hold my ground. You made me reimagine my game—even going so far as to change the size of my racquet head, hoping for any edge.

I’m not a very superstitious person, but you took it to the next level. Your whole process. All those rituals. Assembling your water bottles like toy soldiers in formation, fixing your hair, adjusting your underwear... All of it with the highest intensity. Secretly, I kind of loved the whole thing. Because it was so unique—it was so you.

And you know what, Rafa, you made me enjoy the game even more. 

OK, maybe not at first. After the 2004 Australian Open, I achieved the #1 ranking for the first time. I thought I was on top of the world. And I was—until two months later, when you walked on the court in Miami in your red sleeveless shirt, showing off those biceps, and you beat me convincingly. All that buzz I’d been hearing about you—about this amazing young player from Mallorca, a generational talent, probably going to win a major someday—it wasn’t just hype.

We were both at the start of our journey and it’s one we ended up taking together. Twenty years later, Rafa, I have to say: What an incredible run you’ve had. Including 14 French Opens—historic! You made Spain proud... you made the whole tennis world proud.

I keep thinking about the memories we’ve shared. Promoting the sport together. Playing that match on half-grass, half-clay. Breaking the all-time attendance record by playing in front of more than 50,000 fans in Cape Town, South Africa. Always cracking each other up. Wearing each other out on the court and then, sometimes, almost literally having to hold each other up during trophy ceremonies.

I’m still grateful you invited me to Mallorca to help launch the Rafa Nadal Academy in 2016. Actually, I kind of invited myself. I knew you were too polite to insist on me being there, but I didn’t want to miss it. You have always been a role model for kids around the world, and Mirka and I are so glad that our children have all trained at your academies. They had a blast and learned so much—like thousands of other young players. Although I always worried my kids would come home playing tennis as lefties.

And then there was London—the Laver Cup in 2022. My final match. It meant everything to me that you were there by my side—not as my rival but as my doubles partner. Sharing the court with you that night, and sharing those tears, will forever be one of the most special moments of my career.

Rafa, I know you’re focused on the last stretch of your epic career. We will talk when it’s done. For now, I just want to congratulate your family and team, who all played a massive role in your success. And I want you to know that your old friend is always cheering for you, and will be cheering just as loud for everything you do next.

Rafa that!

Best always, your fan, 

Roger

[Temple Men’s Tennis @TempleMTennis]

Chasing every point. Let's go Owls! 🦉🔥🎾

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@WillBoucek This is also live tennis from Metz, not a replay from the Paris Masters

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@WillBoucek Head over to T2 for Women’s Day coverage of the WTA Finals Doubles 🤟

[Rod Laver @rodlaver]

Another tough one. Retirement is inevitable but I’m going to miss watching this bloke fighting for every point like no other. A truly remarkable human, best wishes @RafaelNadal 🚀

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The @Braves season of Hell is over. I’ve lost years of my life because of this team, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. Thanks for the ups and downs. Thanks for fighting to the bitter end. After all the injuries to the entire team, we found a way to make the dance. ⚾️ ❤️

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Walk-off booth cam🎥

@BrandonGaudin x @CJNitkowski

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@Steve_Weissman @paul_annacone @TennisChannel 🙌🙌 And thanks to @JamieThomas12 for all the beautiful Hawkeye work!