The tennis world bid farewell to Roger Federer and Serena Williams in 2022, one is a symbol of the beauty of men’s tennis and the other can be considered the longest-dominant female tennis player in the history of the sport. Their breakup was only 3 weeks apart with different levels of concern, but entering 2023, it can be said that the feeling of longing has been evoked in many fans.

Federer and Serena were born just 1 month apart, and are both the best players in the first 50 seasons of Open era tennis from 1968 to 2018 (the year Federer won his last Grand Slam title), with a total of 43 championships. Grand Slam championship won.

Both of them played very little in the last two years of their careers and the audience knew the day they would say goodbye to tennis was approaching, making us gradually get used to their absence.

There will be new great players appearing, but the mark Federer and the Williams sisters leave is not only on the professional aspect but also on the emotional aspect. We often watch sports to see who is better, but we also find motivation to cheer, and both players give soccer fans a reason to immerse themselves in their moments of competition.

The dominance of the great tennis player

Even in Federer’s era, there were Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, while Serena Williams, when she retired, had exactly 1 Grand Slam title more than Steffi Graf, but her senior had more total titles (107 compared to 73). Therefore, we cannot necessarily consider Federer and Serena to be absolutely great male/female tennis players.

We can only admire their dominance when we directly look at each ball on the field and that is what both clearly demonstrate.

Federer often has matches that take only about 1 minute to finish his opponent; he can finish a game in just 49 seconds. As for Serena, if her opponent can resist her in one serve, the next round that opponent will only be able to give up with a serve at rocket speed.

How to express emotions

The tennis world in the past has had many great players who were famous for their impulsive personalities and showed their emotions, but no one did it and at the same time created an impact like Serena Williams. Every ball she plays has her own type of emotional expression, not to mention the times she shows anger even at the referee.

And Federer is like a legacy left over from the past, when players were calm after each shot, not too emotional but busy thinking of strategies for the next shot. Federer may be a calculating man, but his facial expressions make him seem more like a tennis gentleman than a competitor, making the sport more classy.

The hero and the “final boss”

And from the way they dominate the match to the way they express their emotions, both Federer and Serena have helped shape their image in the tennis world, something that is crucial to attracting audiences.

When we come to watch a match with Federer, we see a match where tennis is performed in the most beautiful, “noble” way, and sometimes the opponent’s appearance is just a supporting actor to make people admire him more. with great moves “Express Train” shows off.

Nadal makes Federer even more attractive because we can see a fierce opponent with a contrasting style creating difficult situations for Federer to show off all his skills and strength to overcome.

Federer vs Nadal are television events that cannot be missed because they are like two main characters in a story, facing each other for glory but still retaining the qualities that make them attract us to watch and share. Vu. Djokovic appeared with a somewhat arrogant and calculating demeanor, giving tennis another attractive main character.

Unlike Federer, every time Serena serves and is scored by her opponent after a sustained ball, she angrily responds with an unstoppable ace, as if to say “don’t be rude to me”.

Playing with Serena makes many players feel that they are in a war, not just playing tennis, that Serena can consider each point scored by her opponent as an insult to honor and will launch “retaliation”. “as soon as possible to restore order.

The period from 2011 to 2017 when Serena almost dominated every Grand Slam tournament, each match with Serena increased in importance. Serena has become the “final boss” of women’s tennis and any player can defeat her at major tournaments.

It is no exaggeration to say that it was the period when Serena’s matches not only attracted her fans, but also those who wanted to see “The Lonely Conqueror” finally find her winner.

Each player evokes different emotions in tennis fans. Now they have retired and men’s tennis only has the attraction of Djokovic as the “final boss” (with the hope from fans that a declining Nadal can use the remaining strength to compete with him), in when the WTA has not yet found a true new queen.