NEW YORK - It isn’t Roger’s Rumpus Room any more.
He was served an eviction notice from a playroom called Arthur Ashe Stadium to which he thought he had a lifetime title. It had become an annual custom for Roger Federer: drop in on New York like a one-man fireworks display, bash everybody in sight, and wrap up another US Open championship.
Such a great routine amounted to five straight titles, and for almost an hour last night, the Lord of the Swings was in oppressive form, leading a slightly known Argentine by a set, and serving at 5-4 for the second.
The young guy on the other side of the net was so nervous that he could barely hold onto his racket. He couldn’t sleep a wink on the eve of his initiation-by-near-collapse, wondering what he was doing...
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