Fans at Roland Garros sounded rather surprised Sunday during the French Open men's final. While Roger Federer was getting ready to receive serve from underdog opponent Robin Soderling, a fan ran onto the clay court.
As security descended on the surface to run the guy down, he tried to put a hat on Federer's head. When security got too close for comfort, the man took off running. While it may have been easy to jump on the court, he found it a bit more difficult to get off it. Video after the jump.
Security way too slow. It is hard to laugh at something that could have been so serious. It did take a minute for Roger to regain his swagger. Roger should have swatted him with his racket (and then the guy probably would have sued).
Greg Couch is a national columnist and award-winning tennis writer for FanHouse.com. A former ranked amateur tennis player, who dabbled in a few pro tournaments, he came to FanHouse after 12 years at the Chicago Sun-Times. "The best tennis writer in America," according to Jason Whitlock, national columnist and guest host of the Jim Rome radio show.
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6-07-2009 @ 1:10PM
GM said...
I am glad that federer didn't get distracted :)
Here is another view at what happened > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o63O0U7wjrw
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6-07-2009 @ 2:12PM
Alex said...
Yeah federer only focused on winning. It would be interesting however if he wore the hat for a game or 2!
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6-07-2009 @ 6:46PM
GTRyan_4Life said...
Lmaoooo honestly security took way too long to react. what if the guy had a knife or something???? The best ever would'vee been deadd
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6-08-2009 @ 1:55PM
Kasey said...
Aw maybe he thought Federer would need a hat in case it rained. Poor good samaritan!
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6-13-2009 @ 3:23AM
hope700 said...
That guy who went onto the tennis court was totally nuts. http://www.SomeCoolStuff.net
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6-13-2009 @ 3:23AM
hope700 said...
That guy was crazy! http://www.SomeCoolStuff.net
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6-15-2009 @ 8:00PM
kayrenny said...
Security way too slow. It is hard to laugh at something that could have been so serious. It did take a minute for Roger to regain his swagger. Roger should have swatted him with his racket (and then the guy probably would have sued).
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