Federer eases past American Wildcard Devin Britton

Yeah, but what else do you expect in a match between world's 1370th ranked player against the No.1, the scoreboard read 6-1,6-3,7-5 at the end of the match, but it wasn't less of drama, did somebody expect the wildcard breaking Federer twice in a match, but that wasn't good enuff for Britton to create an upset today.

It was looking like Federer was ever so cool throughout the game, everytime Britton was winning a game, Federer wasn't interested to run around the corners and didn't want to rush things, he wud hv been happy winning the match even in three tiebreakers but without losing much energy, was he conserving his energy for touch matches, or was he too relaxed ??, or was he enjoying the presence of his second favourite court next only to Wimbledon center court, but for sure he was damn relaxed even when his game was broken twice, i guess he wud be happy for spending like more than an hour at the court wich was highly unlikely wen he wrapped up the first set in less than 18 mins..

To talk about the game, Federer was playing in his first and second gears and rushed his opponent onl wen he was broken, we know what he can do wen he goes at his fifth gear, not to understate the American's efforts, but he was jus too error-prone to hold his service games, he was broken 6 times in the match, not to forget the way he returned a couple of return aces of Federer's second serves in the 3rd set wen the scores were 3-3 , and Britton successfully broke Federer by doing so, and also the return ace winner to break Federer in the second set was probably the best play of the match..

After being 3-4 down in the third set, Federer brokeback his inconsistent opponent who unfortunately couldn't hold on critical points with some doublefaults and volley errors, but it didn't seem great for Federer since the third set was heading to a tie-breaker, Britton was serving at 5-6 and had game points, wich didn't seem to help, everytime he created an advantage, he cudn't create the opportunity to capitalize those advantages, Finally wen Britton gave a room for a passing shot, Federer didn't fail to take advantage of it and by doing so, Federer got his first match point and he followed it up with a brilliant passing shot to the approaching opponent who couldn't quite reach it.

The match ended on a high with Federer winning in signature style and jus over an hour and 20 mins Federer sealed off a perfect first round match in front of ever-so-enthusiastic US fans and Federer was so pleased with his effort expressing with a wide smile at the end of the match..

That'll bring him a clash with Greul in the second round, and possibly a 3rd round match with Lleyton Hewitt

Note On Federer's Outfit: This time around he doesn't come out with a dull outfit like he did in French Open, but he has come up with a Bright-red(Blood red) colour shirt, but he has been using shirts of similar pattern throughout the year, only that they have been of different colours, right from Madrid to US Open, may be he has pattented it for RF brand or custom fit by Nike to Federer, whatever it is, i expected him with a 'Full Black' attire, still there's not much to complain wen he is playing that good.. but i guess he is superstitious about that style of shirt wich has given him some recent success..lolz, is he superstitious or m i so stupid!!!

Repeat of Roddick-Federer at Wimbledon.

Maybe we hav had enuff of Federer-Nadal last few years, now the old rivals ll face off each other in another classic finals but one wudn't have dreamt of a week ago.

History in the Making as Andy Roddick will face Roger Federer in the sunday's finals of Wimbledon Title, this is the third time this pair will fight each other at the final showdown at Wimbledon, though Roddick never got the privilege to lift the trophy, since Federer proved to be pain for Roddick everytime, they are clearly hot players at Wimbledon but Roddick's poor run last 1 year or so left the world writing him off in this tournament, who said Murray was placed in a draw where he cud walk straight thro to the finals, Murray was clearly the hot favourite in the tournament next to federer as the number 1 seed bowed out with his knee problems, but that doesn't give Murray the Visa to play at the finals, everyone saw over the two weeks that Murray was proving to improve his odds match after match except the fourth round match against Wawrinka where he had to endure long enuff, but tat din't in anyway dent the hopes of the British, and everyone knew Murray was getting better day after day, he was playing his best tennis under awesome pressure by both his opponents and the Fans, but he cudn't quite extend his great run at the Wimbledon, was he less brilliant against Roddick, i don think so, he was still playing his best tennis, but Roddick's tremendous efforts over the last week shud not be understated, he played some absolute classic tennis aganst Lleyton Hewitt, and not to forget he edged out Murray today, shud i say Roddick's experience over the years has helped him at the big stage, or shud i say too much pressure on Murray did it for Roddick, i guess it was a mixture of both, Murray felt pressure, but that didn't mean he din play his best tennis, he did, but unfortunately though Murray left it wide open too often for the American to take it, the American missed some of those key moments though, and Murray found ways to be back in the match, still he gave a little too many chances for the American, Roddick played it big and won it at the big stage.

I wud really say too many cooks did spoil the brook, but Andy Murray ll be the onl one to know the pressure had over his shoulders to deliver and against such big names across the court, u don't really want extra pressure from ur fans, in that way Murray might not forgive his fans, but still he didn't win it, but that doesn't mean he let his fans down, maybe fans let him down, they have got to be so proud to have being supporting such great talent, he is for the future, such a class he will edge out a lot of big names in a very short time, maybe with time he ll become the one to beat, like maybe Federer or Nadal,

Today's match of Federer vs Tommy Haas didn't give me anytime to breathe, they were both serving brilliantly, again it turned out to be a serve dominated game, but v can't really complain wen they are serving so well, but it was a allround show by Haas and Federer, Federer was all class today, one of his best shots of the tournament came wen he lobbed an halfvolley from Haas, apart from that i had a lot of mixed feeling about federer today, when Federer missed out to place the ball off a dropshot in a completely vacant tennis court where Haas was nowhere in the court, even a kid would have been embarrased there, so did Federer and the whole crowd erupted in laughter and a sportive smiles shared by the players, but Federer can play those shots even the greatest players of all-time would watch in envy, also Federer plays some crazy wild shots even rookies of the sport would be left grinning, i think everytime how come he pulls off stunners from awkward positions, from positions nowhere to return, he returns like the opponent has no tomorrow, thats pure genius, its all encoded in his cells, we can't complain.. but its really hard wen u r that opponent without answers to Federer's awesome stroke-making..

I wudn't say Federer was at his very best, but he was great enuff to see thro Haas in three sets, he had difficulty in breaking Haas, everytime Federer takes the initiation to lead 30-0 or 30-15, but failed too often to convert it to break point to put the pressure on his opponent, or shud i say Haas everytime came back being 30-0 and pulled it of, they cudn't break each other, but had to be contend with the tie-breaker, Federer has had the better of tie-breakers in this tournament, he won it comfortably today as well, the second set was also heading to a tie-breaker, but Federer knew 'all days are not sundays', so he tried hard and broke Haas in the second set wen it was 5-5 to take the lead and serve for the set, he completed it 7-5, the third set was also looking to head to tight finish, wen the Swiss pushed the German at 4 games each, Haas saved 4 break points before double-faulting and giving away the fifth break point wich he cudn't really defend, Federer was suddenly all over the court in that game, he was determined to break him there, and all he had to do was serve to win the match, i guess the Swiss Maestro has had great service games throughout this tournament, if i am right he hasn't dropped his service game yet and has onl lost one set in a close tie-breaker in the third round encounter.

With Federer's authority all over the flush green centre court at Wimbledon, he wud want to register his 6th win in 7 years and improve overall record at grandslams to 15, wich wud go past the overall record of Pete sampras, Sampras has been gracious enuff over the years to laud this Swiss Genius as the greatest ever and Federer has tipped that Pete might be at the centre court to watch the History-in-the-Making when the Swiss Maestro will try to write his name in the tennis books for the most number of Grandslams, i know its not gonna be any easier than last year's epic battle, with the Hard-hitting Andy Roddick across the court, even with a record of 14-3, one can't guarantee to win the title hands down, he has nothing to lose, so he ll come hard at Federer, maybe he shud use the tactic from the book of Nadal 'How-to-beat-Federer-at-Wimbledon'-after losing two finals, both off them share the record of losing to Federer in back to back years, while Nadal beat Federer in his third encounter, Roddick will also hope he cud win it, i heard that if Federer wins he ll reclaim his no.1 status after 7months, while if Federer loses at the finals against Murray, he ll lose a spot to push Murray to second and Nadal ll still keep his nose ahead by very close margin, it luks though Murray won't disturb the rankings since losing at semis, Federer still has his chance to move ahead of Nadal , maybe if Federer does it, he certainly deserves to be back at the elite spot.

But on Sunday, i am going to support Andy Roddick, over the years i have believed players like Roddick, Hewitt had been overshadowed by Federer too much, they didn't quite enjoy their share of success as Federer did, while Roddick was at No.2, he cudn't quite beat Federer at big stages wich cost him a whole lot of setback in his career, like Nadal came in and kept Federer off the hooks at the clay tournaments and even stripped off his favourite tournaments, Federer has done the same against Roddick, Roddick sure deserves to be up in the big league and for what he has done today, he certainly deserves his name in that title, i surely want Federer to make history, but i can't see Roddick being the victim everytime... Federer knows how hard it was to earn tat French Open title, so hard its been for lot of guys out their especially Roddick, I wanna see Roddick out there to walk away with the title for this man had the heart to say 'if i cud, i wud hate him, but he is too nice' speaking of Federer some years back wen he lost to Federer.

Federer proves Tennis is more than Serving Contest.

It was indeed the finals of the serving contest between the hard-hitting Karlovic and the no.2 seed, in the last 3 days federer's had 2 serving contest wich didn't harm the results, but proved to be very much unlikely tennis one wants to watch at the centre court of Wimbledon, atleast Soderling had a game other than his service, Karlovic as everyone's suggests is a one-shot genius and King of Aces, as rightly named, but one has to have a complete all-round game to tame the Maestro at such a big stage, eventhough Karlovic's service has been brilliant, the Maestro proved he is bad at serving as well, or is it tat karlovic was waiting for Tie-breakers??

Ivo has hardly broken a game against a player in this tournament, he broke against the left-handed spaniard Verdasco in the fourth round, otherwise he waited for those tie-breakers and with his hard-serving skills he was finding himself in a career best grandslam run making himself available in the quarter finals, but the Swiss understands the game of the croatian, he just eases through his service games, the Swiss for the first time in the tournament broke karlovic in the 5th game of first set to take the initiative, the idea in the Maestro's mind was a return the service at any cost, 'if i cud return it to the playing area, i hv very gud chance of winning tat point', tat was probably his gameplan n he wasn't gonna miss out the croatian's second serve every chance the Maestro got, and the Maestro's service games were too good, eventhough his service was not as big as the croatian, his second serves were quite gud enuff to tame the 2.08m tall player.

Federer eased through his service games, Karlovic was no match to the maestro in the game, he cudn't rally even 50% of wat Federer was able to, let alone the winners wich he didn't even bother to win, on a day when Federer was at his best as well as relaxed like he was playing his first round, Federer just kept his cool to handle this big man, he didn't bother losing points, but when he knew he had to break, he was just too brilliant for the Croatian, who looks pretty much a school kid against Federer while playing rally, with just the serve, the croatian can't really complain to allround master in the tennis field Roger, the scoreboard might read 7-5, 7-6, but with all the great run he had for two weeks, Ivo was made to look once again a kid before a sell-out crowd, who was no match to the Master other than service, federer's superiority was not jus about the quality of his forehand, backhand, volley, everytime Ivo tried to volley, he ended up being embarrased by brilliant returns the big hands of Croatian cudn't reach, for an instance where Ivo almost thought he won a volley, Roger's reflex with his raquet send the ball across to the court, while the big man only cud watch the brilliance of the Master in despair. Ivo himself would hv been so proud to push the master to the tie-breaker in the 3rd set.

But Ivo didn't give up, he set up the standards with his service in the third set, eventhough the game was almost by then, he kept his hopes alive without letting the Master break him third time in the match, all he wanted was to stay till the tie-breaker and try his luck, he certainly knew his lazy footwork and poor rallies can't save the day for him, while it luked the Croatian will serve great and stay in the tie-breaker expecting Roger to miss out on his service points, u can't really expect that from the master, Roger really pushed the odds by returning the big first serves of the Croatian in the tie-breaker, what a time to return such big serves, Roger knew what exactly he had to do, he milked those points..

Ivo eventually knew Roger was too good for him, even his big serves couldn't tame the Master.

But for all the fans of the Master, they had the privilege to watch superior brand on tennis by Roger, since couple of days back Roger facing Soderling played a defensive style of game wich not everyone wud be satisfied from the master, today Roger's absolute grace, beauty, and quality of his game was highly visible, wich he din display against Soderling (shud have been a different gameplan ), but still u don want to miss out on those booming forehand, stunning backhand winners anyday, today he was too relaxed against the Croatian to make any errors apart from errors in the service returns,

Whether Roger plays aggressive brand of tennis, or defensive brand of tennis, he still finds a way to rule the tennis court, but he still does that beautifully, he proves he is a class act time and again, with 8-1 going into the game, one can't really think the Croatian has it all to upset the Master in his den, but one might have wanted a real contest out there.. he lost the match, but he atleast pushed the master for a tie-breaker in the 3rd set.


Let's move on to the preview of the next match, Roger has qualified himself to his 21st consecutive semifinals in grandslam, he finds it quite an reflection of his consistency over the years and his supremacy at the Majors. It's not over yet, its just the beginning i would say having beaten them all, he has still 2 big tests to regain his coveted trophy, this is so special cos he has got a chance to win back his No.1 tag., its nice to see former winner Hewitt and 2-time finalist Andy Roddick who fight out for a place in the semis against the home-favourite Murray who cruised to semis thrashing former French Open winner and this year Wimbledon's wild card entry Juan Carlos Ferrero, Federer has beaten Soderling in 3 weeks back in French Open, while he also finds himself in a position to play Tommy Haas who proved out to be the biggest hurdle in Roger's post-nadal campaign at the Roland Garros, where Haas pushed the Swiss to the brink of defeat, Roger defied the odds against him that day and has had a great month overall, he won't be satisfied if he misses out his Wimbledon Trophy, Federer has quite had the better off a lot of players, even Tommy Haas, though Tommy has been the resurgence of his career after losing marginally against eventual winner in French Open, he went on to take the Wimbledon practice tournament at Halle, his resurgence has been marked by beating 4th seed serb Djokovic twice in a couple of weeks at Halle and in Qfinals of Wimbledon today, he has quite the game to upset the Master, but the question is whether he can hold his nerves and upset the Master, eventhough the 2nd seed has been on another planet playing against Soderling and Karlovic, he didn't have the scope to display his allround game, all we cud understand is that Federer is far more relaxed at QuarterFinals than he was a couple of rounds ago, maybe because his opponents haven't displayed any resilience to test out the Master, but against Haas he might be tested, but with the odds favouring Federer for over 5 years, Federer can complete a dream run at the All England Club by being there at the 7th straight finals.. With Coupe des Mousquetaires placed at his backyard, and serious chance of winning wimbledon again, he wud want to know how beautiful it wud hv been for Nadal last year to take them both home.

Federer beats Soderling once more

Federer wins Soderling again, Soderling couldn't quite cope up with the pressure of the match, whenever Federer wanted the breaks, Soderling offered him voluntarily, like he did in the first set when they were tied at 4-4, Soderling eased the pressure off Federer's shoulder's by playing 5 unforced errors in the 9th game of the first set to let Federer lead the set 5-4 with Federer having to serve the next game, Federer raced away with 6-4 in the 1st set, otherwise the match was more or less a 'Serving Contest' as coined by Federer after the match, 

The second and third sets were certainly serving contest, the swede and the swiss were serving aces and held most of their serves comfortably, but something one can't fathom with the play of Federer yesterday was that he was not interested in taking the initiative at any part of the match, he was living on Soderling's mistakes, probably that was Federer's game plan against Soderling, he wasn't approaching the net's as much as the 12th seeded swede, Federer was very happy to play from the baseline throughout the game, maybe that was some reason to suggest Federer never could break Soderling in the 2nd and 3rd sets, it's the inability of the Swede to break led to tie-breakers in the 2nd and 3rd sets, maybe Federer was more than happy to take on the Swede in the tie-breaker, although Federer wasn't at his best in both the tie-breakers, he lost his service points to let Soderling overtake, but the Swede's inability to play under the pressure proved too costly, losing both the tie-breakers 5-7..  Federer was under pressure everytime the Swede played at the nets, but Federer pulled off some fine winners from the baseline while the Swede was at the nets, otherwise the match missed the ingeniuty of the maestro's forehand , backhand winners, he was completely defensive till the end of the match, but Soderling was maybe too attacking the Swiss's service game, he returned them too hard the ball couldn't stay in the playing area, he was returning at speeds of 100 mph, had he been a bit more clever to not play the ball too hard, with Federer relying mostly on backhand slices and defensive strokes, Soderling had a good chance of outplaying the no.2 seed, but Soderling was never able to control his strokes, along with costly misses in the two tie-breakers ended up in the favour of the Swiss Maestro, 

As Federer said Soderling made a big mistake by serving a double fault in the 3rd set tie-breaker, while Federer couldn't convert his service points very well in the tie-breakers, his service was under the hammer, while Soderling eased off everytime by returning the favour by making unforced errors, Federer was lucky in the end in both the tie-breakers, 

The Match could have been easily a four setter or a five setter had the Swede capitalized his chances in the tie-breakers by cutting down the errors.

Sometimes even when your game is quite good as your opponent, a couple of errors might be the deciding factor, yesterday Soderling had a day to forget having done all the hardwork to stay in the match, he couldn't capitalise anywhere, probably that's when experience counts, Federer has played a lot of these matches, he quite understands his position very well, with winning 10 times before, Soderling can't really complain, the maestro is too hot to handle anyday, even on a day he played his defensive brand of tennis, he was maybe clever, and a bit of pressure and luck did the job for the Maestro.

Now that we have had enough of the Soderling-Federer match, the next match is got to be a quite another serving contest, if you consider the 4th round match as serving contest, then wednesday will be the finals of the serving contest, with the 6'10" croatian serving 150 miles per hour, it doesn't matter if you are 2nd seed or the underdog, he will be quite hot to handle on grass, but the likes of Federer knows the game of Karlovic very well with a head-head record of 8-1 against the big-serving croat, Federer has the odds with him, while Karlovic has the ability to defy the odds at this point of his career beating big names of the likes of Tsonga and Fernando Verdasco of the fames of Australian Open 2008 and 2009, Tsonga being the runner up of 2008 Aus Open and Verdasco losing the close-fought semis of this year's Aus Open against Rafa, Karlovic has certainly defied the odds as did Soderling in the French Open, still the odds favour the Swiss comfortably, but one might be in for a surprise if the croatian is at his very best serving around 50 aces, and a record of not losing a game in the tournament so far, Federer has his work cut out, I hope seriously Federer comes out of his nutshell of defensive strokes and displays his varied array of strokes to outplay the one-shot genius or the King of Aces.

With Murray having fought a 4 hour marathon with the another Swiss in the tournament Stanislas Wawrinka, the odds clearly are in favour of Federer, but it's still not going to be any easier having said that Nadal is not in the tournament, just from the heat of the tournament favourites Federer and Murray, one has forgotten that Djokovic is having a very good tournament, and Federer will have to face the 22 year old Serb in the semis if they clear their hurdles in their quarters, while the classics Andy Roddick and Lleyton Hewitt being the sole campaigners for thier nations will fight out in the quarters as well, as i said Federer has some serious work to do this week to make this year a complete year with his Wimbledon Title.

Federer Vs Soderling Rematch at Wimbledon

 

Soderling played against Federer last month in the Roland Garros Finals, Federer blew of the challenge in thin air in no time, he displayed some fine character at the end of the day at Paris, something wich he was always this close of experiencing, but something that has eluded the maestro for too long.., it was a big due in his trophies list, he played year after year but Nadal always had the last laugh at Paris, the worst part being Federer's inability to defend his Wimbledon title which he considers the most special of the grand slams.. No one could hold their tear glands if you had to lose to the same opponent in 3 different grand slams in less than year, the fact that Nadal stripped Federer off his World no.1 ranking, Federer struggling to win tournaments throughout the 2008 but still managed to fix a date at 3 of the 4 grand slam finals, atleast Federer cud defend his US Open wich he has been winning 5 years now, so he lost his winning streak at Wimbledon, but at the Flushing Meadows, he is still the king, though he is not had the best run at the Aus Open, but he finds himself at best at US Open, i jus can't find the difference between the turf at US and Aus, but Federer does find the difference, the fact that he defended it against upcoming talent Andy Murray last year, but 8 months later,  he looks very much favourite not alone in the eyes of the English Fans, but quite alot of Tennis critics, he has got the big game, but he needed to play big at the big stage wich hasn't been his forte yet, he is still young and at the learning curve, for instance Nadal came in Limelight in no time, he wasted no time to get in business as a 19yr old, he also has learnt a lot over the past 2 years, atleast he holds the key to the mystery of most of the leading tennis players, 'How to beat Roger Federer', Murray is another guy who has had the better off Federer in the last 6-7 months after losing at US Open, though Federer attributes his lose to various reasons, Murray has got absolutely the game to upset big name like ROGER FEDERER, not many of the tennis fans wud be surprised to watch that happen, its a win-win for the tennis fans, but Federer or Murray fans cud be disappointed at the end of the tournament.. At an important time of his career, Nadal has left his fans astray hoping he will come back and compete at US Open, his disability to defend his 5th French open title and inability to play at Wimbledon and the fact World No.1 Ranking hangs at the balance only worsens the cause.. but luckily Nadal is just 23 and has a whole lot of time to get back to were he cud be 'One of the greatest tennis players' wich i guess he already is, I for a moment when Rafa won at Aus Open thought Rafa is certainly going to complete a Career Grand Slam before Federer, i really didn't bet my money on Federer completing career grand slam at all, I thought Federer is gonna stay 'Pete Sampras' in being unable to win even a single Tournament at RG.. Now that RG has been done and dusted by the maestro, the debate arises , 'Is Roger Federer the Greatest Tennis Player Ever', i don really know is the answer wich Federer had to comment about that debate, he was confident though calling himself as the Best in last 5 years or 10 years, he believes he has quite dominated the game too much in the last 2-3 years, he had a quite a few questions like 'Were GrandSlams considered as big tournament as they r considered now' ..

Lets get back to business, it was a big relief the day Nadal left Roland Garros in disbelief and pain in heart twice as much as his knees, probably he wud have known the answer to his own medicine against Federer last year at Wimbledon where Nadal ended Federer's dream run wich lasted over 6years, Nadal's dream run at RG had to come to an end some day, but no ever dreamt it wud be so soon, n no one really thought he won't make it to the QFinals, absolutely shocking, even if Nadal lost at 4th Round of US Open, No one wud hv expected to b against Soderling as well, its a Shock, losing at 4th Round of French Open is really a terrible shock to tennis fans, but not for Federer fans, being runner-up for prev 3 years, Federer was the definite favourite at RG, but Federer fans cudn't take it for granted, the next day Federer knew the trophy that eluded him in the past is slipping of his hands when he was 2 sets down against Tommy Haas, and Federer was facing a break point, had he failed to save that game, Federer wud have sunk in more tears than he shed after winning the tournament, cos he knew it was his best opportunity in years, it wasn't cakewalk since then, he had to face big names like Gael Monfils at the QFinals, resurrgent Del Potro which turned out to be 5 setter as well, then at the Finals Federer played like a champion against Soderling the successor of Nadal, Soderling on the other hand had his best tournament in years after beating big names like Nadal, Gonzalez.. I believed Soderling was destined to make it big at the French Open Finals, but one can't really complain wen the maestro is at his best, he won it like a champion. Even Soderling was gracious to appreciate Federer that 'he was the greatest player ever and that he never thought u can lose 10 times against a same player'

Rematch?? Not really wud b the answer if u ask a million, the finalists of the last month's Roland Garros will meet each other at the fourth round of the Wimbledon, Soderling wud want to break his losing record against Federer who leads 10-0 against the Swede(Soderling). This is quite similar to at French Open, Soderling taking on the top seed at Roland Garros 09 and eventually winning it in a 4 setter, not to forget the Nadal-Soderling duo don't get along each other after a Soderling act of Nadal's wedgie at the Wimbledon couple of years ago, now at Wimbledon 09 he has to play the top seed Federer, at Paris, the Top seed collapsed to this swede, onl a couple of days ll answer the question of 'will it be the repeat of Roland garros, ie Soderling beating the top seed at the Fourth Round',

i believe Federer ll lose at the fourth round , i m not a quite good kind of predictor, but  i do like to predict, i predicted Federer ll lose against Tommy Haas, Gael Monfils, Del Potro and even Soderling at French Open finals 2009, lol, he has disappointed me lately,  but he shud be quite fulfilled of the fact he has pushed his name in the elite list of names from Rod Laver to Andre Agassi who had completed career grandslam.


Is Federer the greatest ever, the answer i hv to offer is 'i don't really know', but i guess he
has quite a work to do, like winning at Olympics, wich he has failed twice, and the fact that he
has dominated tennis on all courts at all levels, at if he is gonna finish his Career with tat
onl one French Open title, one can't really consider him as the best of all tennis after all, may
be years after Federer is no more playing the game n u start watching it alongwith your kids n
teach them the abt the game n talk abt the greatest tennis player ever n if ur kid ask ' so he
won onl once at French Open', that might not be the best way to consider this evergreen master,
it wud be more fulfilling to hv wins at French Open again and a Olympic Championship, also the
fact the head-to-head record against the Spain's King of Clay isn't the best to be showcast, now
that he is 7-13 against Nadal, losing twice as much as he won, gives one the feeling 'was he the
greatest ever', may be he is, but still he cud still cement himself a foot deeper as the greatest
ever to hv played the game, but one can't really say with the way these two hv progressed over
the year, back to back at French Open Finals n Wimbledon finals, there hasn't been even one
player who has played the Finals at Roland Garros n All England Club in the same year, one wud b impressed these two are in different planet, they hv quite performed this feat for 3 consecutive
years., thats quite a lot of show, they say Clay and Grass are like East and West, but for these
two gentlemen of the sport, its quite a distance, but not too far!!! and they aren't afraid of
the hard courts as well, its been 2 men show in tennis for quite sometime, they hv jus dominated
the game jus too much i guess, As Federer Suggested one shud judge his career once its over, not
while he is still playing, ya it does hav some sense, no one can guarantee Nadal will be in the
sidelines of the history of the sport... he cud well contend for being the greatest as well, but
one cant really say right now, the fact that Nadal has been Federer at 5 out of 7 grandslam
finals meeting and once at semifinals, Nadal has the upperhand against Federer at Grandslams,
Nadal has won six so far and everytime he has had to win Federer mostly at finals.. They r not
contend with either Clay or Grass, their versatility is their strength, Not to forget, Federer
brings grace and elegance to the game, while Nadal brings along with him the athletism and
strength, also tat they don play with the same hand, while their game are like opposite poles of
a magnet, they bring greatness to the game, Federer raises his game at the grandslams, he has
reached 20 consecutive semifinals of the grandslams and still heading to his 21st, tats quite a
record one shud be proud even years after retirement, if not for Nadal, Federer shud be 20 Majors by now, but one can't complain for the non-stop entertainment these two hv displayed to the world.. even if they don stay in the books as the greatest players of the game, atleast they ll
be the greatest Rivals in the sport, atleast for that v r highly grateful to these masters of the
sport.

Atleast for that v hv to be highly thankful for these two gentlemen.. I haven't watched greats like Pete, Agassi, Becker, Laver, Lendl etc play the game, watching Federer and Nadal is enuff for me