Can being relatable be considered a superpower?
It was steamy dog day afternoon at the Uniqlo flagship on Fifth Avenue. At the center of the mezzanine sales floor a curtained booth had been constructed for a round of press interviews preceding a question-and-answer session.
Attending this event was a horde of Federer fans, a number of whom had lined up and camped out overnight in hopes of finding themselves in the presence of a tennis luminary whose statistical accomplishments are so overwhelming and have been so much rehearsed across the last two decades that eventually they were collapsed into the acronym GOAT — for “Greatest of All Time.