What is the secret to Roger Federer’s dominance of tennis?   NYT Sporstwriter and biographer Christopher Clarey has had  unparalleled access to the player over twenty years and seen is development from gifted but temperamental teenager to global elite athlete, as he documents in The Master: The Brilliant Career of Roger Federer.

In the course of this conversation Clarey talks about the behind the scenes coaches who have  helped sharpen Federer’s reflexes and strategy, about Federer’s temperament, his closest inner circle, his rivals Nadal and Djokovic,  and reflects on how a written sports biography compares with increasingly popular sports screen documentaries.

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