08-03-2013, 11:15 AM
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#981
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Lifetime Suspension
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Federer is a class act.
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Tennis star Roger Federer has long been considered one of the good guys in sports. A recent Twitter post by a young fan, however, takes Federer's sainthood to a whole new level.
The fan's name is Beatriz Tinoco. She's 17 years old, from Rockville, Md., and survived a battle with cancer in 2011 and 2012. Earlier this summer, she got an opportunity to meet Federer at Wimbledon through the Make-A-Wish Foundation. But Federer didn't just perform a perfunctory handshake and sign a few things. He went way, way above and beyond the call of duty, as Beatriz detailed on Twitter Tuesday afternoon.
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The whole story of how I got to meet Roger Federer and how it was: Well, I had cancer in 2011/2012, and there's this foundation called the Make A Wish Foundation. They grant wishes to kids, teens and yound adults who have life-threatening diseases. I made my wish in 2012, and my wish was to meet Roger Federer. I waited for more than a year, and I didn't really know if they were gonna be able to grant me this wish (you have second and third options) since Roger has such a busy schedule and it was taking such a long time. In June I was told that ESPN was doing a piece on high school tennis and they were gonna film a bit of my school tennis team. So I went there and we had practice and in the end they told us we had a culminating activity that would kinda test our knowledge of tennis. They gave us an iPad to watch something, and it was the Wimbledon 2012 match point (that already got me like really excited) but then after Roger falls to the ground they cut the video and Roger shows up in a kind of home made video or something, and he says "Hi Beatriz, I heard you're a big fan of mine, so I'm inviting you with your family to come watch me play at Wimbledon. Go pack your bags, have a safe trip, and I'll see you there!" (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) I freaked out so so so badly. I couldn't believe it haha. All I could think was "OMG ROGER FEDERER KNOWS MY NAME!" Haha.
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http://mashable.com/2013/08/01/roger...medium=twitter
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