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.