00:03thank you everyone for coming out today in advance of tomorrow night's roger federer
00:08and icon returns to new york but i just feel um like tomorrow and i guess today as well and
00:16then
00:16monday next week uh it really gives me a true opportunity to say thank you and goodbye which
00:21is i think important for some for me it is and uh it's a nice thing to do for sure
00:28but i don't
00:29know why it hasn't happened earlier it's just uh life life was family and life on the road and i
00:34didn't want to look for it right away i let it come naturally yeah it's nerve-wracking to be honest
00:40i
00:41haven't played a single set in i don't know it's her catch wimbledon maybe so it's been five years
00:48um don't know how it's going to go tomorrow so there's a lot of uncertainty but a lot of
00:54happiness that i can return to uh arthur ash a place where i've had so many
01:00uh beautiful moments and uh um serena is doing it venus is doing it you are younger
01:07than venus i mean do you ever wake up and say maybe i should consider a wild card
01:11just for a limited basis no no no no no not at all um thanks for asking i i wasn't
01:19sure if the
01:20question was going to get asked but uh i'm saying i'm happy you did so i can clarify in case
01:24anybody
01:24thought no no no um not at all and i think you anyway have to enter the doping pool like
01:29god
01:29there's way too many obstacles and i i'm too busy i'm barely uh finding time to play any exos you
01:36know
01:36uh so imagine a tour and and the body is done it's uh you know but i'm very happy how
01:42i'm feeling so
01:43all good and uh just just a fan now just enjoying watching yeah um aside from this exhibition tomorrow
01:51if you had the opportunity to come back and play one more main draw here at the u.s open
01:57in 2026
01:57who would you most like to play and why in today's game in today's game yeah um well i mean
02:06maybe
02:06carlos um i think he's exciting i never got a chance to play um against him or sinner the same
02:14you know we uh we only practiced together uh a little bit as they were coming up so i missed
02:20that generation unfortunately a little bit and there's a bunch of those guys i just missed just
02:25because of my knee issues obviously novak would be cool too i mean he's still uh going strong and he's
02:31still hanging in there which is cool um so i'm thinking most about uh obviously those guys um so
02:38yeah and it's nice to see carlos back and i'm happy he made it in time so we'll see how
02:42he's how he's
02:42gonna feel but i don't have to worry about how i would play him because i'm not there in the
02:47draws
02:48but i wish him the best and i think i can speak for everyone uh when i say that we're
02:53all looking
02:54forward to seeing you back on court tomorrow night okay i hope i'll be okay thank you so much
02:59thank you again goodbye everybody thank you good to see you
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