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Roger Federer Announces Retirement from Tennis (wsj.com) 54

Posted by msmash from the end-of-an-era dept.
Roger Federer, the 20-time major winner whose ruthless artistry defined an era of tennis, announced his retirement on Thursday. From a report: "I am 41 years old, I've played more than 1,500 matches over 24 years, and tennis has treated me more generously than I ever would have dreamt," Federer said in a video on social media, "and now I must recognize when it is time to end my competitive career."

For so much of that career, Federer seemed as if he would go down as the all-time men's leader for Grand Slam titles. He rounded past his idol Pete Sampras with his 15th major championship in 2009 and topped the list until 2022. But by then, his career had become inextricably linked to the other members of tennis's Big Three, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic. As Federer struggled with injuries in recent years, Nadal overtook his tally at this year's Australian Open and now sits in first place with 22 major titles, having also won Roland-Garros this year. Djokovic is also ahead of Federer with 21, following his win this year at Wimbledon.

Federer, who will say goodbye at the Laver Cup exhibition in London next week, underwent knee surgery last year in the faint hope of returning to the pro circuit for a last hurrah. But as the recovery dragged and tennis kept speeding up, the Swiss master shotmaker realized it was time to call it a day. The man who once looked untouchable now retires in third place on the list of men's major championships. His dizzying final scorecard reads: eight Wimbledon championships, six Australian Opens, five U.S. Opens, and one Roland-Garros. He picked up 103 titles on tour, one Olympic doubles gold medal for Switzerland, and at one point spent a record 237 straight weeks as the No. 1 ranked player in the world. It earned him $130,594,339 in prize money alone, according to the ATP Tour.
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  • News for Nerds (Score:5, Insightful)

    by DesScorp ( 410532 ) on Thursday September 15, 2022 @10:57AM (#62884355) Journal

    ... and... tennis stuff?

    Someone help me out here. What angle am I missing?

  • News for nerds? (Score:5, Insightful)

    by TWX ( 665546 ) on Thursday September 15, 2022 @10:59AM (#62884369)

    We've had some real stretches lately, like the death of the Queen of England, but isn't the announcement of the retirement of a sportsball player a bit outside of the normal sorts of things that the patrons of this site are interested in reading about on this site?

    Is there an information-technology, sciences, or fandom angle to this? Does this affect any of these industries? If I want to read general news, I'll go to a general news site. They probably are more experienced and will do a better job of presenting general news. I come here for the nerdy/techy/sciency stuff that most general news sites don't necessarily do such a good job for. If this place yields the latter for the former, I have no reason to keep reading here because other places do it far better.

    • Re:News for nerds? (Score:4, Insightful)

      by nightflameauto ( 6607976 ) on Thursday September 15, 2022 @11:09AM (#62884407)

      Is there an information-technology, sciences, or fandom angle to this?

      I'll bet at some point the dude has read a sci-fi novel or seen a Marvel movie.

      Does this affect any of these industries?

      I'd further bet that he has owned, currently owns, and may own in the future, some form of technology we care about. Maybe a phone or a computer? Maybe a TV? He's probably surfed the web a time or two.

      I'd guess that's the only technological connection here.

      This site hasn't just lost its editors, it's lost its way. I don't think the "staff" such as they are even have a clue what it is they're supposed to be doing other than generating clicks. Just bring back Jon Jatz already if all they want is clicks. That guy was the best troll to ever inhabit slashdot. He'd post a trashbag article and hundreds of nerds would start foaming at the mouth in their excitement to post flames.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by TWX ( 665546 )

        Slashdot did this before, sometime within the last decade, when it was sold to some company that tried to make it into a general news aggregator.

        Trouble is, something very, very niche doesn't usually manage to transition into something entirely mainstream because it cannot attract enough mainstream user base fast enough to offset alienating its existing niche userbase. So the existing userbase evaporates, while the new userbase never really materializes.

        Slashdot almost died at that point, and it has never

    • I think the interest in Tennis on Slashdot is related to its similarity to the first video game, Pong.

    • We've had some real stretches lately, like the death of the Queen of England, but isn't the announcement of the retirement of a sportsball player a bit outside of the normal sorts of things that the patrons of this site are interested in reading about on this site?

      Even then, I fully expect things like the Queen's death to be posted here. That's major international news that we're going to want to discuss in our nerdy little enclave here. It's Stuff That Matters.

      But this is the first article I've seen where

  • I'd guess he is an Apple user but I've been wrong plenty of times.

  • NOTHING TO DO WITH TECH (Score:4, Insightful)

    by LondoMollari ( 172563 ) on Thursday September 15, 2022 @11:04AM (#62884393) Homepage

    Why is this article here???!!

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by elbot ( 10165275 )
      Perhaps because his surname sounds a little bit like Fedora and someone confused him for a Linux distro.
    • I don't know, probably a consequence of climate change. We may see more and more news about stuff that doesn't matter in the coming years. There is a correlation between the frequency of these news and earth surface temperature, I can prove it.

  • Nerds (Score:5, Funny)

    by groobly ( 6155920 ) on Thursday September 15, 2022 @11:13AM (#62884415)

    This definitely belongs on /. because apparently Federer was actually a robot, which is how his opponents explained their losses.

  • News for nerds? Nope. Stuff that matters? Nope. Wtf?
  • â¦is the only reason I still come to Slashdot. Otherwise I would junp ship to an alternate nerd news site.

  • Go home msmash (Score:5, Interesting)

    by thegarbz ( 1787294 ) on Thursday September 15, 2022 @12:24PM (#62884687)

    You're drunk.

    • Re: (Score:1, Insightful)

      by Anonymous Coward

      He/she is the WORST editor of /. EVER.

      And that's saying a lot.

      • He/she is the WORST editor of /. EVER.

        He/She? I've always considered mods here to be poorly coded Perl scripts.

    • They's the worst. Can someone do a quick screen scrape and count how many times the various editors provide a story that was suggested by a reader. msmash just seems to post whatever CNN has as it's headline at the moment. Maybe it's a quota thing, and no-one likes them, so they are completely on their own. But it's crap. Completely phoning it in from day one.

  • The End? (Score:4, Insightful)

    by TigerPlish ( 174064 ) on Thursday September 15, 2022 @12:27PM (#62884697)

    At this point, biz-x could shutter this place and I'd not shed a tear.

    I'd hope they sell it tho -- to a nerd with money, that cares.

    This article is the most off-topic thing posted here that I can remember, ever. A far cry from when /. 21 years ago was the only news ticker still working when 9/11 broke the internet.

    Yeah, Queen Elizabeth dying was also a stretch, but it made for a discussion on monarchy.

    But tennis? Really? Not even F1 with its abundant tech and rampant cheating and now social activism.

    Tennis.

    We don't have to wait for the Netcraft confirmation -- this place is done. It's just the commenters keeping it alive. The "Why" of that just eludes me. Habit? Inertia? I know it is in my case. Habit. /. has always been there.

    Goddamned fintech end SEO bros. Go soak your heads, I bet the eds aren't even real. That's who owns this joint, -- fintech and SEOs... not even nerds.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by crgrace ( 220738 )

      I only come on here every few weeks out of habit, or inertia I guess.

      Wild to think I've been coming here for well over 20 years. Used to be a lot of fun.

    • > It's just the commenters keeping it alive. The "Why"
      > of that just eludes me. Habit? Inertia? I know it is in
      > my case. Habit. /. has always been there.

      For me, it's a little bit inertia, a little bit nostalgia, but mostly just bloody-minded stubbornness. I started to sour on Slashdot for a while around 2014 or so when it seemed to lose its enthusiasm for technology and took a hard luddite turn. For example, the Slashdot party line on Google Glass really irked me. There I was, looking at the th

    • I'd hope they sell it tho -- to a nerd with money, that cares.

      Maybe Elon Musk? He's lined up an investment group, will likely bail on his planned Twitter purchase, and could pick up /. For *literal* pocket change...

  • TENNIS IS LIFE!!!! That being said it doesn't pay the bills. Come to think of it. Why the hell is this on this site? You all wouldn't get it anyway. And I come here to follow up on my - "Well I can't make money doing what I love - so I do what I don't hate" - part of my life. So, I agree with you all. But you're still nerds.

  • Tennis involves servers! (Score:3)

    by Anachronous Coward ( 6177134 ) on Thursday September 15, 2022 @01:48PM (#62884985)

    What do I win?

  • Is that some tech company or what? I mean, it clearly has to be because whoever that guy is (hey, I don't have to know every CEO of every startup in the world), since this is a tech site the whole thing somehow has to have some connection to technology, right?

  • because that's why I subscribe to this feed. /s Seriously, I can't think of a less-nerdy topic than sports. Do better yo

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