When the legendary Roger Federer took the field at London’s O2 Arena to play his last professional tennis match, there was a flood of emotions around the world. Even in countries like India, where the match started late at night, several fans stayed up to watch the historic match as Federer teamed up with longtime rival and close friend Rafael Nadal to defeat Frances Tiafoe and Jack Sock in a doubles match. . As the match was being played, Carlos Alcaraz, the newly crowned US Open champion, took to Twitter to basically live-tweet the entire match.
“Who’s watching @LaverCup?” he asked in his first tweet of the evening, along with a teary-eyed emoji.
who is watching @LaverCup? @rogerfederer
— Carlos Alcaraz (@carlosalcaraz) September 23, 2022
When someone asked him “you too?” he replied, “Of course!”
Naturally! https://t.co/6fUWD379eV
— Carlos Alcaraz (@carlosalcaraz) September 23, 2022
“Scenes!” he wrote in one tweet, followed by one with crying emojis.
Scenes! @rogerfederer @Rafael Nadal
— Carlos Alcaraz (@carlosalcaraz) September 23, 2022
“Federer does Federer stuff,” he wrote in a tweet.
Federer does Federer things
— Carlos Alcaraz (@carlosalcaraz) September 23, 2022
What followed was a series of GIFs and memes to capture the atmosphere of the match.
— Carlos Alcaraz (@carlosalcaraz) September 23, 2022
As Federer and Nadal went down in their match, Alcaraz finally tweeted “Wow…” with a broken heart emoji and wrote “Thanks RF”.
Wow…
Thank you RF— Carlos Alcaraz (@carlosalcaraz) September 23, 2022
He signed by sharing a photo of Federer and Nadal in tears.
“Good night,” he wrote with emojis that laugh with a tear.
Good night https://t.co/oVhbeAW3AC
— Carlos Alcaraz (@carlosalcaraz) September 24, 2022
Anyone following the match would have felt the same emotions and Alcaraz’s Twitter feed during the match captured it brilliantly.
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After Federer announced that the Laver Cup match would be his last professional outing, Alcaraz took to Instagram to share an emotional post for the Swiss maestro.
“Roger has been one of my idols and a source of inspiration! Thank you for all you have done for our sport! I still want to play with you! I wish you all the luck in the world for what comes next!” he had subtitled it.
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