Roger Federer Talks About His 'Happy Cry'
Tennis – is known to show his emotions on the court. Many a times during his matches, Federer has cried in public – in victory and in defeat. But Federer has coined a term for it – happy cry – as he revealed in an interview to CNN.
The 20-time Grand Slam champion says, I do get emotional watching movies sometimes but I did not know I had this happy cry as we call it in our family, not just when you are winning, but the kiddies. Say (we had) a wonderful vacation, and we leave the place and the kids dont want to leave because theyve had such a wonderful time in Australia.
We call it a happy cry. I didnt know I had that in me. When it first happened, I believe it was in the Davis Cup in Basel when I played an amazing weekend against the Americans (in 2001) and of course when I won Wimbledon, the emotions were so, so strong.
You get asked the question, so how do you feel? And you are like, How I feel right now? This is how I feel like and its just like a complete meltdown. I never thought I was going to hold a trophy, I never thought I was going to win Wimbledon, I never thought I could stand here, standing ovation, trophy ceremony is completely surreal.
And when you start thinking of your family or your friends, you go back in the gym, you go back into the practice courts where there was nobody watching, and all of the sudden you realize weve put in so much work and it all paid off.
Federer heads into Melbourne having the record for most Grand Slam singles titles by any male player – with 20 Grand Slam titles. The most recent of those came in Australia last year and he heads into Melbourne this year as the No.
3 seed. He beat Marin Cilic in the final last year to win the Australian Open for a joint-record sixth time.
