The Swiss reduced Britain’s Andy Murray to tears when he beat him in the 2012 final but having set another couple of records on Saturday and armed with what John McEnroe calls “the most beautiful shots in tennis” he remains everyone’s darling at the All England Club.

Even the person manning the “Used Championship Balls” stall around the corner from Centre Court drew in passing trade by shouting: “Roll up, roll up, come and get your used championship balls here if you want to own a piece of Federer’s DNA! Roger’s been all over these balls.”

While the 15,000 Centre Court capacity crowd chuckled at the bird’s audacity, a couple of Asian fans dressed in red made no secret about where their loyalties lay as they held aloft a banner declaring “We can never find another you!”

Such sentiment seems to follow Federer wherever he goes, with his rival Novak Djokovic often declaring “Roger is the most loved tennis player in the world” — mainly thanks to the strokes that ooze off his racket strings like liquid gold.

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Nadal has some words of wisdom for her.

“I just will tell her that enjoy, and just work hard off court every time that she’s on-court or in the gym,” Nadal, the 18-time Grand Slam winner, said on ESPN after advancing to the fourth round.”But then enjoy life, too. You cannot be all day thinking about tennis, no? I think everybody believes that I have been a very hard worker and it’s true. I have been a very hard worker on court. But outside of the court, I didn’t miss much during all my life. I went for party with my friends, I did all the things that they did, sometimes less than them but I was able to do it.

Federer didn’t win the first of his 20 majors until he was in his early 20s, but, too, wishes Gauff the best.

“Coco’s doing an amazing job, it’s fun to watch,” he said on the BBC. “She’s really won over all the hearts from all the fans around the world who like tennis.  She’s been great. Me on the other hand, I’m don’t know many years I have left.”

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Rising Canadian star Denis Shapovalov has stunned world No. 1 Novak Djokovic at The Boodles as the 20-year-old earned a straight-set win 7-6 (3) 6-4. As not a single break point was seen in the first set, the first set went into a tie-break — where Shapovalov won six points in a row to take a 6-1 lead before converting his third set point.

#NextGenATP Canadian now 2-0 at tour-level against Tsitsipas

U.S. women’s soccer games have generated more revenue than U.S. men’s games over the past three years.

That’s according to audited financial statements from the U.S. Soccer Federation (USSF) obtained by The Wall Street Journal. In 2016, women’s games generated $1.9 million more in revenue than men’s games. From 2016 to 2018, women’s games generated approximately $50.8 million in revenue, compared with $49.9 million for men’s games.

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Toronto has never seen anything like this. It was bedlam. It was euphoric. It was surreal. Nobody was preparing for something this big.

Crowds estimated at between 1 million and 2 million lined the parade route and clogged city streets on Monday morning to see the NBA Champion Raptors during a victory celebration and rally.

It was a clear indication of where the basketball market is in this country and where it could go. This historic event, with the Raptors becoming the first team outside the United States to win an NBA Championship, lived up to the hype.

Crowds were so thick that the parade was half an hour late getting started and hadn’t even arrived at Nathan Phillips Square until long after the scheduled 12:30 p.m. arrival time, which was greeted by a flypast of Canada’s Snowbirds.

Raptors players were offering up champagne showers along the parade route and people were perched on traffic lights and construction workers climbed scaffolding just to get a vantage point.

Motorists on the Gardiner Expressway were actually pulling over so they could peer down from the overpass to watch the proceedings below.

The love affair between the entire nation and these Raptors spilled over into this day of celebration in Toronto, four days after the Raptors beat the Golden State Warriors 114-110 in Oakland in Game 6 to win the series 4-2.

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