Gillette commercial

This is a bit late but I thought I'd post a video of the new Gillette commercial featuring Roger together with Tiger Woods and Henry Thierry.

Tiger urges Federer on

Here's a new Nike advertisement which starts off with beautiful flashbacks of the tennis champion's career and ends with a cheeky message from the golf champion to his good friend. After all, isn't that what friends are for?

Tiger watches Federer win

A few days ago, Roger Federer went to watch Tiger Woods practice playing golf. Today Tiger returned the call so to speak and was on hand to watch his fellow-dominant-athlete win his opening match to advance to the third round at the Miami AMS Sony Ericsson Open at Key Biscayne, Florida.

Tiger had some waiting to do though because the match, which was originally scheduled to start at 8pm, was delayed for more than two hours due to inclement weather. Federer had actually phoned Tiger to warn him that it was raining at Key Biscayne but apparently a very gracious Woods made the 15-mile trip just the same. Of this Federer says

He told me since a couple of months he's going to come out because I knew so far in advance when I was going to play. So that was a great thing. I think we should do that more in the future... I'm happy he comes out during a tournament. ... it's great that he comes to watch tennis. I think it's a great honor for our sport.

Like us faithful Federer fans, Tiger was not likely disappointed when the Swiss tennis star overcame the difficult windy conditions and produced answers to every query his opponent, American Sam Querrey, put to him (sorry for the pun). In fact, the match just took a little over 62 minutes--which was the time it took Kuznetsova and Bondarenko to complete their first set alone, by the way--probably giving Tiger time to travel back to Doral and get enough rest before he tees off for the fourth round at the WGC-CA Championship.

Federer himself was quite pleased with his performance, saying:

I was feeling terrible a couple of days ago, so I'm just happy I came through, you know, because I didn't know what to expect tonight. I didn't know my opponent. You know, I've known since a long time when I'm going to play. So kind of a bit of expectations, too, from the fans and everybody. ... I thought it was going to be a bit more difficult with the weather and the opponent ... but I came through and played well and pretty solid.

Federer watches Tiger practice

Tennis' No. 1 player traveled to Doral, Florida to join the crowd watching golf's No. 1 player practice. At first poor Federer wasn't able to enjoy himself because fans who recognized him began asking him for autographs. But luckily Tiger, who was delighted to see his good friend there, decided to defy rules and graciously invite Federer in:

It's great to have [Federer] out here. I think he's a wonderful supporter of golf, and I think it's pretty neat when you have probably the most dominant athlete on the planet out there in your gallery.

They don't want to have people inside the ropes. . . . I'm sure I'll get fined for it. I don't mind paying, because he was starting to get hassled pretty good and I didn't think that's why he came out here. He came out here to enjoy himself and watch me slap it around a little bit.

Tiger even acknowledged that Federer was the more dominant of the two in his sports considering the latter's achievements in the past three years. For his part, Federer was as thrilled to be there:

I had never really seen live golf from professionals up until the last year. It's different from sitting in a stadium watching soccer or a tennis match. You've got to know where to stand to see the ball. For me, it was hard to follow the ball. I lost it just because he hits it so hard and so far... .

Such is the exclusive mutual admiration society of Tiger and Federer. And don't we too just love these two great athletes?