{"id":624742,"date":"2024-06-19T04:37:05","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T01:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-federer-twelve-final-days-review-tennis-greats-retirement-party\/"},"modified":"2024-06-19T04:37:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T01:37:05","slug":"watch-federer-twelve-final-days-review-tennis-greats-retirement-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-federer-twelve-final-days-review-tennis-greats-retirement-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Federer: Twelve Final Days&#8217; Review: Tennis Great&#8217;s Retirement party"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4e203d34db5\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4e203d34db5\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-federer-twelve-final-days-review-tennis-greats-retirement-party\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Federer_Twelve_Final_Days_Review_Tennis_Greats_Retirement_party%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Federer: Twelve Final Days&#8217; Review: Tennis Great&#8217;s Retirement party&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-federer-twelve-final-days-review-tennis-greats-retirement-party\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Federer_Twelve_Final_Days_Review_Tennis_Greats_Retirement_party%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Federer: Twelve Final Days&#8217; Review: Tennis Great&#8217;s Retirement party&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Federer_Twelve_Final_Days_Review_Tennis_Greats_Retirement_party%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Federer: Twelve Final Days&#8217; Review: Tennis Great&#8217;s Retirement party&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Federer_Twelve_Final_Days_Review_Tennis_Greats_Retirement_party%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Federer: Twelve Final Days&#8217; Review: Tennis Great&#8217;s Retirement party&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    In his classic 1994 essay \u201cHow Tracy Austin Broke My Heart,\u201d David Foster Wallace pondered why so many athlete memoirs \u2014 and tennis player memoirs in particular \u2014 fail to provide sports fans with what they really want to know. What does it feel like to fail in front of millions of people? How does a human being handle such intense pressure? What actually goes through one\u2019s mind in those do-or-die moments where the difference between eternal glory and lifelong dis<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ointment is one tiny miscalculation or half-second\u2019s hesitation? Maybe, Wallace eventually concludes, the answer to that last question is \u201cnothing much at all,\u201d and \u201cthe real secret behind top athletes\u2019 genius may be as esoteric and obvious and dull and profound as silence itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    In his two previous sports documentaries, \u201cSenna\u201d and \u201cDiego Maradona,\u201d filmmaker Asif Kapadia has gone a great distance toward disproving Wallace\u2019s thesis, using ingeniously edited archival footage to probe the psyches of Formula One champion Ayrton Senna and soccer god Maradona in all their noisy complexity. Directing alongside Joe Sabia, Kapadia attempts to crack a much tougher nut with the Prime Video documentary \u201cFederer: Twelve Final Days,\u201d a fly-on-the-wall snapshot of Swiss tennis legend Roger Federer during the short span between announcing his retirement and playing his final professional match in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    For fans, this handsomely-mounted film\u2019s level of access will be enticement enough, and its emotional peaks are undeniably stirring. But its limited scope and curious demureness prevent it from offering the full-scale portrait that a figure like Federer deserves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Perhaps the biggest challenge here is that Kapadia\u2019s aforementioned earlier subjects (as well as Amy Winehouse, subject of his Oscar-winning \u201cAmy\u201d) all possessed rather volcanic temperaments, equally prone to fits of self-destructive recklessness and flights of divine ecstasy while plying their trades. Federer\u2019s genius, on the other hand, has always been of a more Apollonian variety. Arguably the greatest men\u2019s tennis player ever, both his <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> and his public persona were defined by impeccable control, discipline and steady grace. And for better or worse, \u201cFederer\u201d largely follows his example.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    As even-keeled, stately, respectful and, frankly, sometimes a tad boring as the film can be, Federer is a reasonably forthcoming subject, and less prone to bloodless sports clich\u00e9s and diplomatic niceties than one might expect. He\u2019s quite eloquent when discussing how, for elite athletes, dealing with retirement is sort of a test-run for confronting death, and his reflections on the injuries that brought his quarter-century career to an early close feel remarkably honest. For all his buttoned-down reputation, he makes for consistently intriguing company. It\u2019s just that the circumstances surrounding him here don\u2019t offer much in the way of conflict or urgency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Proceeding chronologically through those final dozen days, \u201cFederer\u201d begins with a strangely long procedural glimpse of the tennis PR machine in full whirl, as Federer and his family record a farewell message announcing his retirement, then sweat over the details in the hours before it posts on <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a>. (Will the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> leak? Will Federer forget to notify someone important beforehand? Why is Anna Wintour calling all of the sudden?) Once word is finally out, the focus shifts to preparations for Federer\u2019s swan-song: a doubles match at the newly-minted Laver Cup tournament in London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The tournament setting gives Kapadia and Sabia a natural way to introduce the major figures from Federer\u2019s professional life, each of whom roll into London one-by-one and get a bit of \u201cThis Is Your Life\u201d face time. Bjorn Borg, John McEnroe and the tournament\u2019s namesake Rod Laver are all present to represent the old guard, but the real focus is on Federer\u2019s trio of longtime rivals: low-key Brit Andy Murray, mischievous Serbian Novak Djokovic and Spanish great Rafael Nadal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    While Federer clearly admires both Djokovic and Murray, it\u2019s his relationship with Nadal that gives the film its most touching moments. First emerging as Federer\u2019s potential young usurper, Nadal subsequently became his greatest rival, and eventually the pair developed what seems to be a genuinely deep friendship. They have a fascinating rapport \u2014 with Nadal the more openly emotional of the two \u2014 and display the uncanny sort of intimacy that can only be forged through years of head-to-head competition. \u201cTennis is not a contact sport,\u201d Federer says while reminiscing on his matches against Nadal, \u201cbut we almost touch each other through the ball.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Highlights from the climactic match \u2014 in which Federer is paired with Nadal, naturally, for a doubles contest against younger pros Frances Tiafoe and Jack Sock \u2014 are well staged, with the directors avoiding traditional broadcast angles and instead giving us an up-close, court-level view of the two aging greats in action. But the stakes here are undeniably low; were it not Federer\u2019s final go-round, this match would barely have warranted a mention in his biography. More novel are the film\u2019s glimpses at the mundane small moments that make up a tennis superstar\u2019s day-to-day: the shop-talk in locker rooms, the endless shuttling between luxury hotel banquet halls and one hilarious debate between Federer and Djokovic over which dress shirts they\u2019re supposed to be wearing for a photo shoot. (It\u2019s comforting to learn that even Federer \u2014 who is usually the very model of Continental sophistication, and appears to be wearing a different Rolex in every scene \u2014 is still sometimes confused by the rules of formal menswear.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Nonetheless, for all the film\u2019s access, one is always aware of how much of Federer\u2019s story remains untapped here. In one mid-film training session, Murray asks Federer how he\u2019s holding up amidst all the hoopla, to which Federer gives him a knowing smile and says, \u201cwe\u2019ll talk later.\u201d Maybe someday Federer will let us into those conversations \u2014 until then, all we have is silence itself.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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