Ten years ago in Melbourne, Roger Federer may have delivered his finest performance at a Grand Slam tournament. He didn’t drop a set over the fortnight, which included a fourth-round win over a young Novak Djokovic and a semifinal clobbering of an in-form Andy Roddick (6-4, 6-0, 6-2). The lone highlight for the American, who yesterday was named an inductee into the International Tennis Hall of Fame, was this memorable press conference:
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