ginning of this year, in which he said he would have been happy if his opponent that day, Rafa Nadal, had won. There is only so long you can carry a chip on your shoulder before it starts to weigh you down,” he says. “It must be a baseball peculiarity carried over to soccer. Fellow Swiss Manuela Schar shattered the women’s mark by more than five minutes, winning in 1hr 28min 17sec.