Since it is the Olympic period, there is a saying that fits perfectly for this article of mine: all that glitters is not gold! Marc Rosset, in an interview with Tennis Magazin, retraced his career and the most significant moments as a professional tennis player. Among the various topics covered, the former Swiss player talked about the gold medal won at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, with some rather interesting revelations, with which he wanted to launch a dig at the Swiss Tennis Federation and Roger Federer.
“I remember everything about the Olympic village and other things, but I have almost nothing of tennis. At that time there was no Internet or smartphones: we were in our own world, a world of athletes in which I was the only Swiss with a medal. You couldn’t even read the news, so you couldn’t know how the people of your country reacted,” he said.
A triumph in the men’s singles that is missing, for example, among the victories of the countryman Roger Federer.
“When I won the Olympics, I said he could win everything except the Games! It’s a shame he didn’t, I would have liked him to win it in 2012, in London. It would have been exactly twenty years since my greatest success, it would have been so very nice to share it with him. When we won the Davis Cup in 2014, some people asked me how it was possible that we had so many good players, but I didn’t see it that way.
We didn’t invest so much in the sport, Martina Hingis and Stan Wawrinka achieved their results with very little support. The only player who was actually supported by the Federation was Roger, even though he would have become the player he became later. They didn’t help me either, so I would say that in Switzerland it’s quite difficult to have this kind of progress,” he said.