Roger Federer made his Wimbledon Centre Court debut today in his usual flair (couldn’t Nike get him a better bag this year?) for his match against Chinese Taipei’s Yen-Hsun Lu and his quest for a sixth Championship and record-breaking 15th major.
The 5-time champ was in solid form today disposing of his foe 7-5, 6-3, 6-2 while hitting 10 aces, 42 winners against only 10 errors, making 19 of 23 net approaches, and connecting on 71% of his first serve deliveries. Nice moves.
Fed also debuted the gear I previewed last week but it’s what was covering those duds that made the story. He came out working a military style jacket featuring patch pockets on the front and white warm up pants while underneath he wore a sneaky white vest with gold piping.
Good thing for the RF’s every-friggin-where or he might have been mistaken for staff at The All England Club. Phew.
All in all, it’s very “Fed at Wimbledon” though the military themed jacket paired with a tailored vest is a strange combo.
Rich Rodriguez writes the tennis blog Down the Line!
on Jun 23rd, 2009 at 10:16 am
Have you ever even been to Wimbledon you jackass? How exactly would he be mistaken for the staff?
on Jun 23rd, 2009 at 10:39 am
Yeah passerby I don’t get that one either. No one is going to mistake Roger for the staff at The All England Club.