Roger Federer is Amused by The Hype Building With His Match With Tomic

Written by: Staff on 17th January 2013

Roger Federer is Amused by The Hype Building With His Match With Tomic

epa03540272 Swiss Roger Federer serves during his 2nd round match against Nikolay Davydenko of Russia at the Australian Open Grand Slam tennis tournament in Melbourne, Australia, 17 January 2013. EPA/Barbara Walton |

Roger Federer is watching the local excitement build for his third-round needle match at the Australian Open against Bernard Tomic.

The 20-year-old challenger is the talk of the tennis-starved public after winning his first career title last weekend in Sydney and coming into his meeting with the Swiss with a 10-0 record in 2013.

But as a 17-time Grand Slam champion and arguably the best to ever play the game, Federer has lived through countless days of hype many times. His solution: just ignore it.

“I don’t read the press, so it doesn’t affect me. I don’t know if he’s going to wake up and first thing in the morning, and go to the coffee shop and read the paper.

“I used to be like that when I was a lot younger, and I stopped doing it a long time ago. It has a big effect on you if you care what people write about you and think of you. I think it’s important to be confident to a degree, you know. It seems he has that.

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