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cuddalore
Federer turns to cricket
2 years ago, at the end of December
Tennis’s biggest winner, Roger Federer, has visited Tamil Nadu in Cuddalore, India, which was devastated two years ago by the Tsunami.
In the Pudupettai rehabilitation colony, 180 km south of Chennai, the state capital, hundreds watched the improvised cricket game played on an old red coir mat that was placed on a makeshift pitch.
“It was good fun playing cricket here,” Federer on a two-day UNICEF trip to the region, told Reuters after knocking a few balls that drew huge applause from tsunami survivors.
“I know the sport is huge here. I follow it myself,” said Federer, whose mother is South African.
“In the beginning they threw the ball at me slowly, and then realised that I was not that bad after all.
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