20-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer Saying goodbye to tennis at this year’s Laver Cup, he opened the curtain of his magnificent 24-year career. Federer was lucky to have some of his oldest and favorite colleagues at the farewell as the whole world paid his respects to him.
While Federer is often seen as one of the most beloved players of all time, an incident in Shanghai shocked the entire tennis community. During 2012 Shanghai MastersFederer received an online death threat on the Chinese blog Baidu.com.
A user named “Blue Cat Polytheistic Founder 07” posted the following threat: “I plan to assassinate Federer on October 6 to destroy tennis” and attached a photograph showing an executioner with an ax standing next to a decapitated Federer.
Roger Federer described the threat as “a distraction”.
Threats have been made before. Shanghai Masters The tournament started when it was played from October 8-14. Later, Federer was often accompanied by his wife and twin daughters, but only Roger traveled alone for this special event. Later, she explained that the reason for her family’s absence was not the threat.
Security around Federer remained tight throughout the tournament as the Swiss maestro made it to the semi-finals before losing to the final titles 2 times and eventually runner-up. Andy Murray. Murray’s 12-0 winning streak in Shanghai is broken Novak Djokovic.
But for Federer, the saga of threats didn’t end with just one post. After the security measures were tightened, the user made another post stating that he has not been arrested yet. “I was not arrested, I made an attempt to contact the relevant people to apologize” read the second post.
Talking about the whole event, Federer he said, “Obviously maybe it’s a bit of a distraction, no doubt about it. It was a very minor thing on a website, nothing clear and concrete, people just arguing.”
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