Stan Wawrinka will receive the goodbye he deserves at the 2026 US Open. It comes a decade after the one-handed Swiss maestro won the tournament.
A lot of you here might think this is a tennis hoddle. It isn't. It's one about an athlete who has meant so much to me during the second half of my childhood and a great deal of my adulthood.
Stanislas Wawrinka has been a fixture of my life for 18 years.
I didn't know who Wawrinka was the first time I saw him play. I watched him in-person at the 2008 Pacific Life Open (Now BNP Paribas) in Indian Wells, California. It's the biggest tournament outside the four majors. My father and I drove there in my freshman year of high school.
The first men's tennis match I ever saw was between Stanislas Wawrink against this young challenger to Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. His name was Novak Djokovic, and he just won the 2008 Australian Open.
#open #life #tournament
A lot of you here might think this is a tennis hoddle. It isn't. It's one about an athlete who has meant so much to me during the second half of my childhood and a great deal of my adulthood.
Stanislas Wawrinka has been a fixture of my life for 18 years.
I didn't know who Wawrinka was the first time I saw him play. I watched him in-person at the 2008 Pacific Life Open (Now BNP Paribas) in Indian Wells, California. It's the biggest tournament outside the four majors. My father and I drove there in my freshman year of high school.
The first men's tennis match I ever saw was between Stanislas Wawrink against this young challenger to Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. His name was Novak Djokovic, and he just won the 2008 Australian Open.
#open #life #tournament
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