Roger Federer, the “THALAIVA” as referred to as by the official Twitter deal with of Wimbledon, Tuesday obtained a standing ovation of 1 and 1/2 minutes from spectators as he entered the Royal Field at Centre Court docket. The Tennis legend was introduced with an award by the Duchess of Cambridge Princess Kate to have fun his contributions to the event forward of the centre court docket match between Shelby Rogers and Elena Rybakina.
Carrying a cream-colored go well with together with his purple All England Membership member’s pin hooked up to a lapel, together with a striped shirt and polka-dot tie, the retired Wimbledon King walked to his seat and stood between his spouse, Mirka, and the Princess of Wales within the particular part above one of many baselines within the Grand Slam event’s essential stadium.
The “THALAIVA” standing for the Tennis legend by none aside from Wimbledon official twitter dealt with went viral with 587.1K views, 11.5K likes and 1,200 retweets for the reason that publish was twitted.
A number of the Federer followers have been delighted whereas some others have been fuming at Wimbledon’s tweet.
One fan stated: By no means thought any individual would get labelled as THALAIVA in Tennis….lol
Anyway….if anyone deserved the THALAIVA tag in Tennis, it needed to be Roger
One other Federer fan supported the tweet: He’s undoubtedly the #THALAIVA of Tennis