Federer, the moment everyone was waiting for has finally arrived: the big turning point is around the corner, we’re here.
If there is one piece of advice we can give you, it is to stock up on Kleenex. You might need a lot of tissues, in fact, when the most anticipated documentary of the moment finally lands on the small screen. Especially if you are part of the nostalgic family and regret, although their heirs are equally fierce and talented, the era of the legendary Big Three.
The date to be circled in red on the calendar, as the most avid fans will probably know, is that of June 20th. That will be the day Prime Video will officially launch the product that tennis fans have been waiting for for over a year now. Since that evening, magical but very sad, in which Roger Federer he took leave of the sporting activity and greeted his audience. The idea, at first, was not to make a documentary for the fans. The Swiss just wanted to give himself a personal work that faithfully and memorably recounts the last 12 days of his career.
Then he decided, however, that that little gem was worth sharing. And he was born like this Roger Federer Twelve final daysthe documentary that will allow its supporters to relive the days that preceded the king’s farewell, which took place, as is known, on the occasion of the 2022 edition of the Laver Cup.
Federer, here we are: countdown almost over
There will be tears, we said. Even just the trailer will have shed a few too many tears, which is why we can only imagine how intense and exciting the work, which bears the director’s signature, will be Asif Kapadia and the co-director Joe Sabia.
A work that does not limit itself to re-proposing the key moments of that London evening, but which shows Federer in an absolutely new and “private” guise. With his emotions, with his fears, with all the melancholy that will certainly have characterized a day destined to remain engraved in history.
On the small screen, together with King Roger, the inseparable friend-rival will also appear Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray. However, it will also be there Matteo Berrettini, who played in that edition of the Laver Cup and who had the privilege, as such, of experiencing a historic moment up close. A moment that changed the history of tennis and that, thanks to this documentary, we will be able to pass on to posterity, so that everyone can know, even in the future, what a champion in life and in sport the Swiss who we miss so much was.
