FedCity - Game

A Tale of 17 Cities

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SEGOVIA3

VIENNA4

ISTANBUL5

TOKYO6

KOOYONG

17CINCINNATTI

7 GSTAAD

16MUNICH

1 PARIS

8DOHA

15ROTTERDAM

9 HALLE

14OEIRAS

13BANGKOK

12WIMBLEDON

11NEW YORK

10 LONDON

Grass Hard / Carpet Clay

FedCity - Game

• You are travelling with Fed as he visits 17 cities of past glory, where he has won titles as a Junior, in the Challenger Circuit & as a Senior Pro.

• Your job is to identify these 17 cities based on the clues given, so that you know where you are going.

• Do note that the first letter of these 17 cities do not repeat, for instance if one of the cities is Muscat ( obviously never !! ) then M is done.

FedCity - Game

• Most importantly, there is a thread. We start from Paris as City 1. City 2 will start with one of the letters from PARIS. So it cannot be Muscat for sure.

• City 3 will start from one of the letters of City 2 and so on and so forth till City 17.

• A hint – Wimbledon & London are two separate locations for this game.

FedCity - Game

Have fun identifying and travelling with

Fed !!!

1 ( Answer )

Fed won a Grand Slam in this city, the only major he has never won again.

PARIS of course

2 ( Answer )

Fed won his first doubles title on the Challenger tour in this city with a guy called Sander Groen. It was on his 18th

birthday.

SEGOVIA, in Spain

3 ( Answer )

Fed beat Jiri Novak & Moya in 2002 & 2003 in this European city. Strangely both best of 5 for a 250. More strangely top local player

Thomas Muster has never won the title here.

VIENNA ( Muster is Austrian )

4 ( Answer )

First time in this vibrant city after all these years recently. Fed won the title too. The

only city straddling two continents.

ISTANBUL – The Bosphorus dividing Europe and Asia

5 ( Answer )

Fed beat Tim Henman for a lone title in this city. Here he is holding a porcelain cup of the local brew standing next to a barrel. The brew is not

champagne from Moet & Chandon but ‘rice wine’.

TOKYO & Sake !!!

6 ( Answer )

The only exhibition title Fed has won twice, held in a place which is a suburb

of Melbourne – an aboriginal word meaning ‘haunt of the wild fowl’ .

KOOYONG

7 ( Answer )

Cowboy Fed won only once in this city. However he was presented

Juliette in 2004 and Desiree ( pictured ) in 2013.

GSTAAD in Switzerland

8 ( Answer )

Since 2009, the ceremonial opening of the ATP tour happens here, being the first

one on the tour. Once Fed & Rafa even played on a ‘magic carpet’. Fed won it three times – the last being in 2011.

DOHA – The Qatar Open

9 ( Answer )

No more clues required for a die-hard Fedfan.

HALLE of course

10 ( Answer )

Fed won the last two of similar titles in this city making it 6 in all. The earlier 4

titles were won elsewhere in two different continents

LONDON – ATP Tour Finals at O2

11 ( Answer )

Fed is tied with Jimbo & Pete here. But 5 in a row. No one else. Could have been 6.

Alas.

NEW YORK – Empire State Building

12 ( Answer )

The only Grand Slam Fed won as a junior was in this famous suburban district

against a Georgian called Irakli Labadze.

WIMBLEDON – The first one. So Fed has 8 actually.

13 ( Answer )

This tournament does not exist any more. Fed is the only one to have won it twice ( both the Andys ). This Asian city is one of the world’s

top tourist destinations Get the ‘massage’ ?

BANGKOK – The Thai Massage

14 ( Answer )

Known as the Estoril Open, this tournament is played in a municipality

which is now part of Lisbon. An anagram of Rio Sea starting with an O.

OEIRAS

15 ( Answer )

The Giant Racket in the city where Fed has won two titles. The city known as

the ‘Gateway to Europe’.

ROTTERDAM – The ABN AMRO Cup

16 ( Answer )

Fed beat good friend Jarkko Neiminen in 2003 for his sole trophy at the city which houses the

headquarters of the tournament sponsor.

MUNICH – BMW Open

17 ( Answer )

This city has been good to Fed who reached the finals 6 times and won each one of them including 2014. Hoping for 7

in the near future.

CINCINNATTI - Masters

Thank you for playing and hope you had FUN!!!