Federer's popularity in Asia - Chinese fans flood Federer with gifts

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Rexking

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http://www.atpworldtour.com/News/Tennis/2010/10/41/Shanghai-Thursday-Federer-Gifts.aspx
Roger Federer has for the best part of a decade been the most popular tennis player on the planet. He’s won the ATPWorldTour.com Fans’ Favourite award for seven consecutive years and has 4.7 million Facebook followers, third most among all global sports stars, behind only footballers Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi.

But in China, fans take their adoration of Federer to a whole new level. Like anywhere, the Swiss is besieged by fans seeking photos and autographs, but what makes any visit to the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament in Shanghai different is that Federer is routinely showered with gifts by tennis lovers.

“[Fans are] very creative here in this country giving gifts,” Federer said Thursday. “Obviously many think of my twin girls. Many think of Switzerland, maybe give me a cow or something like that. Others create great books about me and my career, places where they've been, pictures they've taken with me, souvenirs that I've signed for them, they've taken pictures of it. It's very nice.

"It's very different, to be honest. Not everywhere do I get such nice and creative gifts. I always need to pack in the extra suitcase to take all the gifts back. That's the only small problem, but it's a good problem to have, so I'm happy about it.”
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SoBad

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This is getting sad now - what happened to "fed won three slams this year and is goat" threads? Now it's "fed has to go to china to stock up on cheap souvenirs"?:lol:
 
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Rexking

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SoBad said:
This is getting sad now - what happened to "fed won three slams this year and is goat" threads? Now it's "fed has to go to china to stock up on cheap souvenirs"?:lol:
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I'm sure some of those souvenirs ain't cheap.


Who says Fed is goat? If anyone it should be Nadal, currently. Real sad thing is, why isn't he getting as much love from the Chinese?:)
 
SoBad

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Rexking said:
I'm sure some of those souvenirs ain't cheap.


Who says Fed is goat? If anyone it should be Nadal, currently. Real sad thing is, why isn't he getting as much love from the Chinese?:)
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Nadal gets his love from his friends, family, girlfriends and tennis connoisseurs, and those include Chinese nationals mind you. He doesn't need dishonest fanboy factory workers stealing souvenirs from their factories' warehouses located in industrial zones around the sites of second-tier late-season tournaments.
 
BreakPoint

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Rexking said:
I'm sure some of those souvenirs ain't cheap.


Who says Fed is goat? If anyone it should be Nadal, currently. Real sad thing is, why isn't he getting as much love from the Chinese?:)
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Nadal doesn't get much love from the French, either. Not really that hard to figure out. Heck, if Nadal wasn't Spanish, he probably wouldn't even get much love from the Spanish. :shock:

Federer plays beautiful tennis. Nadal plays......what is it exactly that Nadal does again???? :confused:
 
Sentinel

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BreakPoint said:
A lot more than that. 1.3 billion is just China. There are another 2 billion people spread out all over the rest of Asia.
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There are legions of Fed fans just in India. A conservative estimate would be a billion. :)

Federer plays beautiful tennis. Nadal plays......what is it exactly that Nadal does again????
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Pure gold, and sig worthy !!!
 
GasquetGOAT

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BreakPoint said:
A lot more than that. 1.3 billion is just China. There are another 2 billion people spread out all over the rest of Asia.
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I know the population of China. I was just trying to be conservative, don't want to **** off the haters by claiming that half of the world's population are *******s.;)
 
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SoBad said:
Nadal gets his love from his friends, family, girlfriends and tennis connoisseurs, and those include Chinese nationals mind you. He doesn't need dishonest fanboy factory workers stealing souvenirs from their factories' warehouses located in industrial zones around the sites of second-tier late-season tournaments.
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As a nadal fan, shame on you.

I am in shanghai right now and about to leave for the semi finals.

Come to shanghai and talk to the fans here. They are tennis fans just like you and me.

You own an apology to your fellow tennis fans in shanghai.
 
ductrung3993

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morten said:
Because he is childish, boring, nerdy and tries to be classy... just the kind asians like.. Strange he does not sport a asian gf... he is the kind of guy who could.. I like his tennis though, even though there has been very poor competition the last 10 years.
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The only thing you said that's not stupid.
 
GasquetGOAT

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morten said:
Because he is childish, boring, nerdy and tries to be classy... just the kind asians like.. Strange he does not sport a asian gf... he is the kind of guy who could.. I like his tennis though, even though there has been very poor competition the last 10 years.
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lol, typical hater behavior, stupid enough to dish the whole race(s) just because they favor Fed more than Nadal. Not gonna last long here if you keep this up.;)
 
GasquetGOAT

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morten said:
ok i am in a grumpy mode today but still... i Did not mean it in a negative way... But of course we all have certain opinions on people like Germans, French people etc... not saying everyone are the same at all, i Am from scandinavia and i know there are typical stereotypes here too, and most are right, but i am not nescessary like that anyway :) But the feeling i get towards asians are that i am not surpriced they like Rog, just a gut feeling... of course it is politically uncorrect to generalize, but amongst many other attributes i find asian men feks more childish and nerdy than many others ;) but i am probably even more childish and nerdy so it does not have to be negative..
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lol, was this your attempt to justify yourself?

All I read was 'blah blah blah...I am probably more childish and nerdy but asian men are still more childish and nerdy than others.'

And it doesn't matter how you define 'asians', depending on whos reading, you have just offended the Chinese men, the Japanese men, the Indian men and the Muslim/middle eastern men (part of Asia). Way to dig a deeper hole for yourself.

I would suggest you stop it right here before it gets any worse. lol.;)
 
TennisMaverick

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morten said:
ok i am in a grumpy mode today but still... i Did not mean it in a negative way... But of course we all have certain opinions on people like Germans, French people etc... not saying everyone are the same at all, i Am from scandinavia and i know there are typical stereotypes here too, and most are right, but i am not nescessary like that anyway :) But the feeling i get towards asians are that i am not surpriced they like Rog, just a gut feeling... of course it is politically uncorrect to generalize, but amongst many other attributes i find asian men feks more childish and nerdy than many others ;) but i am probably even more childish and nerdy so it does not have to be negative..
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Spoken like a true racist Chinese hater.

Are you aware that this is a tennis site and not a Neo-**** one?
 
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cueboyzn

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morten said:
ok i am in a grumpy mode today but still... i Did not mean it in a negative way... But of course we all have certain opinions on people like Germans, French people etc... not saying everyone are the same at all, i Am from scandinavia and i know there are typical stereotypes here too, and most are right, but i am not nescessary like that anyway :) But the feeling i get towards asians are that i am not surpriced they like Rog, just a gut feeling... of course it is politically uncorrect to generalize, but amongst many other attributes i find asian men feks more childish and nerdy than many others ;) but i am probably even more childish and nerdy so it does not have to be negative..
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What a load of drivel.
 
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cueboyzn

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morten said:
Because he is childish, boring, nerdy and tries to be classy... just the kind asians like.. Strange he does not sport a asian gf... he is the kind of guy who could.. I like his tennis though, even though there has been very poor competition the last 10 years.
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And this..well just more of the same drivel.

in fact even worse.

Not quite playing with a full deck are we?

GTFO u racist. neo**** hater.
 
Sentinel

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I can't believe you guys are even bothering to respond to those 2 trolls !
Thankfully, one of them is on my ignore list.
 
SoBad

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DTLshot said:
As a nadal fan, shame on you.

I am in shanghai right now and about to leave for the semi finals.

Come to shanghai and talk to the fans here. They are tennis fans just like you and me.

You own an apology to your fellow tennis fans in shanghai.
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It sounds like you’re disagreeing with what I posted (shame on me, owe apology, etc), but it is unclear what it is that you’re disagreeing with. I am happy to hear that you enjoyed watching the big matches in Shanghai, and I have no doubt that our fellow tennis fans at the event are lovely people just like you and me. I am just not sure how that contradicts what I posted earlier. In fact, I am quite sure it does not. Anyway, I am glad we had this little conversation – please enjoy.
 
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