Sergiy Stakhovsky admitted that he felt “outnumbered” as he took to the
court against Roger Federer in the Wimbledon second round, but the No. 116
outsider ignored the maths and got on with the biggest upset of his career
as he ended the run of the seven-time champion.
“You’re playing the guy and then you’re playing his legend which is
following him because he won it seven times,” said the Ukrainian who reached
the third round at the grass master’s expense. “He’s holding all possible
career records here, winning matches and everything.
“You’re playing two of them. When you’re beating one, you still have the
other one who is pressing you. You’re saying, Am I about to beat him? Is
it possible?”
Stakhovsky, a colleague of Federer’s on the ATP Player Council, called his
win extraordinary. “Beating Roger here on his court, where he’s a legend, is
I think having definitely a special place in my career.
“Our sport is Roger Federer, here at least I would say. He’s the greatest
player we had. He’s the biggest name we had and we still have, thank god.
And I think as a person he showed us that you don’t have to be really
somewhere else, you can be a decent man achieving a lot of things and still
be a person which everybody admires.”
The winner was in such a daze that he did not know his next round opponent
and was not immediately interested as he absorbed the biggest win of his
career.”
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