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**Phlkxkbh** · 05-30-2011, 02:10 AM

Q. Patty Schnyder obviously retired this past weekend. I remember you had some savage battles with her brother. I'm wondering what it means to you that she is retiring? Do you have any memories of her from early on?

ROGER FEDERER: Yeah, I mean, I have a lot of memories from her brother. We played 15 times. We're good friends. We didn't practice together, but obviously spent a lot of time at the tournaments and so forth.

Patty was obviously-- because she was two years older and women develop quicker and have quicker success, she was always someone sort of to look up to in the region especially. I even ball-boyed her once at a prize-money tournament in my club.

So I always followed her very closely, always very friendly. I thought she had a great career. She said it herself. She beat everybody who was in the game. I remember I even went to the stadium at the US Open when she beat Steffi Graf and was able to watch that years ago.

Yeah, I mean, we were very fortunate having such great players over the past few years with Hingis, Schnyder, and Stan now, and Rosset and so forth. I think we've had a wonderful spell of players. Yeah, it's unfortunate to see her retire, but she's been one of the girls who hung in there for a very long time. I think that deserves a lot of respect, obviously. http://www.thesportscampus.com/20110...-roger-federer

Who is Patty's brother? I never knew about him.

05-30-2011, 02:10 AM	#15
Phlkxkbh Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 406 Senior Member	Q. Patty Schnyder obviously retired this past weekend. I remember you had some savage battles with her brother. I'm wondering what it means to you that she is retiring? Do you have any memories of her from early on? ROGER FEDERER: Yeah, I mean, I have a lot of memories from her brother. We played 15 times. We're good friends. We didn't practice together, but obviously spent a lot of time at the tournaments and so forth. Patty was obviously-- because she was two years older and women develop quicker and have quicker success, she was always someone sort of to look up to in the region especially. I even ball-boyed her once at a prize-money tournament in my club. So I always followed her very closely, always very friendly. I thought she had a great career. She said it herself. She beat everybody who was in the game. I remember I even went to the stadium at the US Open when she beat Steffi Graf and was able to watch that years ago. Yeah, I mean, we were very fortunate having such great players over the past few years with Hingis, Schnyder, and Stan now, and Rosset and so forth. I think we've had a wonderful spell of players. Yeah, it's unfortunate to see her retire, but she's been one of the girls who hung in there for a very long time. I think that deserves a lot of respect, obviously. http://www.thesportscampus.com/20110...-roger-federer Who is Patty's brother? I never knew about him.
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