During his match against Florian Mayer in Hamburg, Roger Federer casually added a Nike sweater vest to his match attire after taking the first set.
Twitter reacted calmly and rationally to this new development.
oh mY GOD HE'S WEARING A SWEATER VEST HE'S WEARING A FUCKING SWEATER VEST AHAHAHAAAAA
— Maisie (@goderer) July 19, 2013
Oh my god. Federer is actually wearing a sweater vest while he plays. I cannot.
— Jennifer Desiree (@jfratzy) July 19, 2013
@AmyFetherolf I had the same reaction except a few more hahas
— Nick Nemeroff (@NNemeroff) July 19, 2013
Sweaterer is looking like one of the 50+ men at my local tennis club. He's playing that first game a bit better than them though.
— René (@Renestance) July 19, 2013
Roger is wearing a sweater vest.
— Chris P (@scoobschris) July 19, 2013
Roger Federer in a sweater vest is quite frankly the most amazing thing to happen to this world. Laughing like a maniac rn.
— Sweaterer Vesterer (@grass_courts) July 19, 2013
I'm in stitches. This is too much, Roger.
— David (@david93_do) July 19, 2013
I actually cannot get over the sweater vest. I am STILL laughing.
— Jennifer Desiree (@jfratzy) July 19, 2013
How insulted must Flowery feel? …. Fudd believes he can go into Grandpa mode and still beat him
— ton skeel (@naughtyT) July 19, 2013
This is FULL ON Grandpaps tennis right now….
— Robin Hosking (@robinsportweet) July 19, 2013
Federer looks funny! A little like my late grandpa! 😀
— Prashant Paul (@prashantsport) July 19, 2013
FEDERER IS WEARING A SWEATER VEST IM DYING LAUGHING
— EED (@Well_its_evan) July 19, 2013
Oh man, Nike is really going after the retirement village demographic.
— Lindsay Gibbs (@linzsports) July 19, 2013
1974 Jimmy Connors thinks there's nothing overly unusual about Federer's attire: http://t.co/MhrNIhrWxl
— Matt Zemek (@mzemek) July 19, 2013
I hope on changeovers he brings out a pipe & slippers. Finds himself a rocking chair. Maybe grabs a bag of Werther's Originals. 🙂
— Rhian (@rosso_neri) July 19, 2013
Or is that Chandlerer Bingerer
— Chris P (@scoobschris) July 19, 2013
The Federer casually putting on a sweater vest before the beginning of the 2nd. Because of course he did.
— Robert (@jamogardens) July 19, 2013
what on God's green Earth is Federer wearing?
— Ricky Dimon (@RD_Tennistalk) July 19, 2013
Roger didn't move to that dropshot. Then again, he thought he was playing shuffleboard now.
— Chris P (@scoobschris) July 19, 2013
You can't spell travesty without vest.
— Siva (@ptenisnet) July 19, 2013
Fed's USO kit. pic.twitter.com/ZJpjWbYggS
— Kelly (@MungoNGus) July 19, 2013
Does the fed vest has a twitter account yet?
“Another point for Milosh!”
call me old fashioned but I liked the sweater vest look, plus it was really cold!
That´s a nice vest, classy. Great outfit. I´m 25 year´s old and I really like it.
The knitted sweater vest I liked too. Just because probably many “anti” Faderer this write them, 1. everything is taste and 2. one speaks about ;-). I think it’s really cool.
I am perhaps old fashioned, but I liked. And every fashion repeats itself, this is fashion, quite simply. I found it cool 🙂
Vest looks awesome. I think this is just the difference between Europeans and Americans, where the former like it and the latter don’t.
These comments can’t be real. The vest looks awful. Get a grip, Federer fans.
Only people who have a) never played a real match in weather cold and changeable enough that a shirt’s not enough but a sweater’s too much, or b) have never had a bad back, or c) a+b, could make fun of someone’s wearing a sweater vest. Quite frankly they’re practical pieces of clothing, it isn’t as if they don’t have some backstory in tennis history, and, oh yeah, they’re stinkin’ practical.
Sheesh. Why not waste bandwidth on something at least minimally interesting?
Looks like we’ve got a new favorite tennis player. Love, Gramps
I liked the sweater vest look, he looks awesome.