"(Last week, Clive Davis, the music mogul, was asked, in one of those roam-the-expensive-seats celebrity interviews, to compare Federer to a pop-music act he’d worked with, and Davis, bizarrely, conjured Billy Joel, which flabbergasted the McEnroe brothers, whose principle job it was that night to unfurl the superlatives. At least Clive didn’t say Air Supply.) The point is that to root for Federer is to root for a Platonic ideal. It is like rooting for truth."
- Nick Paumgarten on Federer’s (devastating) semifinal loss.
