In the finals of the US Open tonight, Federer hit 3 of del Potro's 115 MPH serves out of the 22,547 seat stadium. Federer had been struggling with the serve all night and in an interview admitted that he decided to just turn the US Open stage into a "home-run derby." Federer's idea came from two different ideas combined into one. "Whenever I got bored in tennis growing up, I used to just try to hit the ball over the fence 20 foot fence, why not the 12,000 feet that Arthur Ashe is? My other inspiration came from Shaq vs., my new favorite show.
When I was out there in front of all those fans, being embarrassed by a twenty year-old, I decided that maybe I should try to hit it out of the stadium." Serena Williams reportedly was hit by one of the balls as she was crying on one of the outer courts, played it off one bounce, hit it 30 feet to her left, and claimed that it actually landed in the back left of the court inside of Arthur Ashe.
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