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Roger Federer’s Poignant Farewell To Pro Tennis Documented In ‘Twelve Final Days’ – Tribeca Festival
Roger Federer retires from tennis with grace and modesty in 'Federer: Twelve Final Days,' a documentary directed by Asif Kapadia and Joe Sabia.
But there is broad consensus on one thing: no one has ever played the game with as much grace, as much beauty, with such effortless shot making and economy of form as the man from Basel, Switzerland – Roger Federer. It was, therefore, with enormous sadness but heartfelt appreciation that tennis fans greeted the news in 2022 that Federer, bowing to time, would retire from the sport he defined for more than 20 years. Kapadia says it was probably in hindsight that he realized the Federer project fit neatly into a sort of timeline of films he’s made – about singer Amy Winehouse, the race car driver Ayrton Senna, and the football great Diego Maradona.
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