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FOUR!

Roger Federer reacts during
the final match against Boran
Coric at the Gerry Weber
Open ATP tennis tournament
in Halle, Germany, Sunday,
June 24, 2018.
Associated Press
15 years

after 1st Slam,

Federer

back to

defend at

Wimbledon

By HOWARD FENDRICH
AP Tennis Writer
LONDON (AP) — Go back
15 years, to the start of
Wimbledon in June 2003,
and take a glimpse at
where things stood for Rog-
er Federer.
He was 21. He had yet to
reach No. 1 in the ATP rank-
ings. Not only had the guy
tournament, he’d never Woods roars back, within 4
never won a Grand Slam

even been past the quar-
coming off a first-round shots at TPC Potomac
terfinals at one. He was

loss at the French Open a
month earlier, and another
at the All England Club a
year earlier. Tiger Woods watches his
When all was said and putt on the 12th green
done two weeks later, Fe-
derer was crying, cradling during the second round
the champion’s gold tro- of the Quicken Loans
phy. And now? When play National golf tournament,
begins at Wimbledon on
Monday, with Federer clos- Friday, June 29, 2018, in
ing in on his 37th birthday, Potomac, Md.
he will have the honor of
playing the first match at Associated Press
Centre Court as the de- Page 19
fending champion.

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