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Daily Bagel: Federer and Wawrinka get a heroes welcome in Switzerland

The Daily Bagel is your dose of the interesting reporting, writing and quipping from around the Internet. • The Swiss team began their champagne celebrations
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Daily Bagel: Federer and Wawrinka get a heroes welcome in Switzerland
Daily Bagel: Federer and Wawrinka get a heroes welcome in Switzerland

The Daily Bagel is your dose of the interesting reporting, writing and quipping from around the Internet.

• The Swiss team began their champagne celebrations immediately after Roger Federer defeated Richard Gasquet to clinch the title on Sunday:

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• Wawrinka's declaration of love:

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• Here's Marco Chiudinelli leading the Swiss in a cheer last night. Federer was into it:

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• The Swiss Davis Cup victory dominated the Swiss newspapers:

• Over 10,000 fans greeted the players in Lausanne, Switzerland, to welcome the team back on Monday. The cell network crashed because of the crowds. Fitting that the team chose Wawrinka's hometown:

Davis Cup reading: 

• And one last photo from today's celebration in Lausanne:

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Courtney Nguyen
COURTNEY NGUYEN

Contributor, SI.com Nguyen is a freelance writer for SI.com, providing full coverage of professional tennis both on and off the court. Her content has become a must-read for fans and insiders to stay up-to-date with a sport that rarely rests. She has appeared on radio and TV talk shows all over the world and is one of the co-hosts of No Challenges Remaining, a weekly podcast available on iTunes. Nguyen graduated from the University of California, Irvine in 1999 and received a law degree from the University of California, Davis in 2002. She lives in the Bay Area.

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