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Amazingly, this is only like the fifth-most ridiculous picture Roger Federer's ever taken

Published Feb. 20, 2017 12:29 p.m. ET

Chris Chase

Roger Federer is a photographer's dream: Famous, handsome and willing to use props like a hack comedian on a cruise ship. His latest, greatest photograph has him jumping on a hidden trampoline and playing air guitar on the strings on his tennis racquet. For a guy who missed six months because he got hurt giving his kids a bath, it seems like a wise frivolity. The pic was taken in promotion for the Ryder Cup-like tournament he's spearheading - the Laver Cup - and also, presumably, an upcoming announcement that he's leaving tennis to focus on his music career.

https://twitter.com/rogerfederer/status/822632054940635136

The PR for the LaverCup also involved the tired tennis stunt of playing on a barge which, I don't know, Huck Finn kind of has that on lock. But kudos nonetheless because - voila - you've now heard of the Laver Cup. If they had dressed up Federer in a Slash wig/hat with a dangling cigarette and given him a backstory of a fractious relationship with Axl Rose, the Laver Cup folks probably could have gotten you to buy tickets too.

https://twitter.com/LaverCup/status/833631144125927424

The music phase is just another step in the life of the ultimate sporting chameleon. He's had his boy-band phase, his pinup phase, his James Bond phase,

his Asian-inspired phase, his SEC-baseball player phase, his J.R. Ewing phase, his The Devil Wears Shirts That Need More Buttons phase,

his Eurotrash soccer player phase, his pretentious French director phase,

his I-don't-which-life-decisions-got-me-here-but-I'm-hanging-out-with-Lindsay-Lohan phase,

his Lawrence of Arabia phase, his bad-boy phase, his bovine phase, his Stradivarius phase,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZISGe6JYUA

his'80s buddy sitcom phase, his drum circle phase,

https://twitter.com/rogerfederer/status/816639161734074368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

his Ted Williams phase, his Mr. Reredef phase (I like the way Reredef thinks!),

and his famed Honey, I Shrunk The Kids phase.

He's an enigma. Roger Federer: the most stylish man in the world, a cool cat and a guy so dorky he makes your dad look like Steve Mc-freakin-Queen.

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