Joe was watching Federer
demolish the poor Berdych to reach, once again, the semifinals of the Australian Open 2018 edition.
Joe considered "he could
win his 20th Grand Slam... When was last time I saw someone beat him playing
a truly impressive tennis?".
His job was so boring he
didn’t have anything better to do than looking for suppressed memories.
January 2005, Joe was an unpaid
intern at the Roman bureau of Associated Press, not dreaming any more to become a
great journalist. His co-worker broke in the news “Federer’s leading 2 sets
to 1 but Safin is playing incredibly!”.
He moved to the other room
to watch the continuation of the match (“much better than making fucking
photocopies” he thought) which turned out to be by far the best match he
saw in a long long time. Federer played his best tennis but that day Safin was
simply unplayable and won 9-7 the 5th set to reach the final of the 2005 Australian Open.
“In 13 years many things
changed except one: Federer” Joe’s mind was back in 2018, “I moved from one
state to another, changed many cities, I met literally thousands of people and
he’s still there, on top”.
Bush, Recession, Obama,
Trump, Starwood, Besedo, Teaching, Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, his first laptops and video cameras, being a trainer, catching
intercontinental flights, making feature and short films, hanging out with cool
people (and addicts of any kind), changing mind 20 times a day about what to do next, running away at the end
of it all.
Ultimately start over.
He could write many novels
and screenplays based on those 13 years where everything changed to stay the
same.
Precisely like the best
tennis player he ever saw
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