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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; An online commenter posted a death threat against Roger Federer prior to the start of the Shanghai Masters. (Eugene Hoshiko/AP)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Memo to the internet: Words matter. So choose them wisely.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The tennis fan who posted an online death threat against Roger Federer last week has reportedly contacted the tournament in Shanghai to offer an apology. The fan, who posted on the popular Chinese site Baidu.com under the handle \"Blue Cat\u00A0Polytheism Founder 07\" says he got caught up in the heat of a message board debate and said something he didn't mean. (Read the initial report in Italian here.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\"I\u2019m terribly sorry,\" the poster said. \"I was arguing with\u00A0Federer\u00A0fans and then I wrote something stupid \u2026 I hope that the organizers can understand me, forgive me, and if possible send my apologies to\u00A0Federer\u00A0and his family.\u201D&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The incident has been an unwelcome distraction for Federer, who learned of the threat 11 days ago but decided to play in Shanghai anyway. He arrived late last week without his family, with Mirka and the kids opting to stay home not because of the security threat but because the trip was organized in haste.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u201CObviously maybe it\u2019s a little bit of a distraction, there\u2019s no doubt about it. But you have to be aware of what\u2019s happening around you,\u201D Federer said. \u201CBut that is the case anyway anywhere I go today with my fame and all that stuff.\u201D&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u201CSo then obviously it came out in the press. That\u2019s when things changed. It became much more public, which I\u2019m a bit disappointed about, that it did come out in the press.\u00A0It was something just very small on a website, nothing clear and concrete, people just debating. That it makes that big news is a bit surprising to me.\u201D\nPeople on internet message boards throwing stupid inflammatory messages at each other over the issue of sports? That really shouldn't surprise anyone.&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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