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Serge Lama in the stands of Roland-Garros in 1987, the crowning year for Ivan Lendl and Steffi Graf. CEYRAC/GEORGE/ROBINE/AFP
The tennis legend and the giant of French music are now linked by a song that the singer dedicated to Basel.
They left their scene almost at the same time, each in their own way. The courts for Roger Federer on September 15 after twenty-four years of magic on the professional circuit, discouraged by the state of his bruised knees at 41 years old. The boards for Serge Lamawho followed suit a few days later by announcing the release in October of the last album of his career, To likethe epilogue of a journey that began more than fifty years ago, also admitting “be physically damaged”. The tennis legend and the French music giant are now linked by a song, Roger Federer’s gesture, which the singer dedicated to Basel. A playful and lively piece, “light as it was on the courts and that we listen to with a knowing smile”, that its composer will therefore never have the opportunity to sing in a hall, since he has also definitively given up performing in concert.
“I imagine that I would have interpreted it by repeating a gesture of which he has the genius; but…