Number 61 » Tennis http://number61.net by Matthew Gipp Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:10:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Federer as Religious Experience http://number61.net/2009/07/federer-as-religious-experience http://number61.net/2009/07/federer-as-religious-experience#comments Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:46:40 +0000 Matthew Gipp http://number61.net/?p=604 David Foster Wallace on Federer's impossibly good game. As a way of continuing my various recent flirtations with DFW's work, here's a link to an article he wrote for Esquire in 1996 describing the era's landscape of professional tennis in uncomfortable detail.]]> David Foster Wallace in 2006 on Roger Federer’s impossibly good game.

Because I’d like to extend the streak even further, here’s a link to an (extremely entertaining) article that DFW wrote for Esquire in 1996 describing the state-of-the-art of professional tennis in uncomfortable detail.

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