Nadal labels Kobe a "fighter" and Federer posits that he's a "winner." Not exactly rousing stuff there, but Serena gets more verbose, offering that Kobe "always played because he loved the sport, not for any other reason.” That’s something the 21-time Grand Slam champion knows a good deal about.
It's Federer who ultimately steals the show, though, finding it impossible not to invoke his love of emojis in saying, "I have once used his name as an emoji. Ko and then a bee. So it was actually quite funny."
Yes, Fed, it's all about you. And yet his chuckle-inducing dad factor makes for the most memorable and surprising part of the entire clip. That's hard to do when you're in such, ahem, personality-laden company. (Here's looking at you, Richard Sherman.)
So Federer beckoned people to laugh at his joke, a joke that played out on Twitter months ago. That doesn't mean that Fed's not making new memories on his social medium of choice, though, as evidenced by the fast one he pulled on Andy Murray at the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters Launch Party this past weekend:
