Roger Federer’s graduation speech becomes an online hit

There are thousands of commencement addresses on college campuses each spring. Most are unremarkable and go unremarked upon. But occasionally, one gets people talking and gains traction online. That was the case with the speech given by retired tennis champion Roger Federer at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., on June 9.

“In the 1,526 singles matches I played in my career, I won almost 80 per cent of those matches,” Federer said. “Now, I have a question for all of you. What percentage of the points do you think I won in those matches?”“In other words,” he said, “even top-ranked tennis players win barely more than half of the points they play.”

In 2011, Conan O’Brien, a Harvard University graduate, stood behind the same tree-stump lectern at Dartmouth and roasted the idea of elite higher education to uproarious laughter. O’Brien’s speech continues to be watched as a comedy master class, with 4.8 million YouTube views.

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