Roger Federer as Religious Experience (Published 2006)
How one player’s grace, speed, power, precision, kinesthetic virtuosity, and seriously wicked topspin are transfiguring men’s tennis.
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David Perell @david_perell
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Feb 18, 2021
"Roger Federer as Religious Experience" is my favorite David Foster Wallace article because it's so descriptive. To research, he printed the eBay descriptions of various tennis racquets to create these ultra-vivid descriptions. Great writing comes from effort as much as talent.