During the celebration of 100 years of the Centre Court at Wimbledon, all champions from the All England Club were presented on Sunday.
All the champions were announced in order by number of Wimbledon titles. After John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg, Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and many others, there were only few names left and the only man that ever won 8 Wimbledon titles, Roger Federer. The Swiss entered the court and the crowd seemed to be really happy to see him again.
"I’ve been lucky enough to play a lot of matches here. It feels awkward to be here in a different type of role. This court has given me my biggest wins and my biggest losses. I hope I can come back one more time. I miss being here. I didn’t think it would take this long to come back; this year has been rough on me. I didn’t know if I should make the trip, but I’m happy to be standing here today."
"2001 [stands out] against Sampras [Federer beat the American legend to end his title defence]; and then in 2003, against Mark Philippoussis [to win his first title]. You [Sue Barker, who was speaking Federer] remember what that meant to me [the Swiss cried during his winner's speech]."
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