Djoko got broken 4 TIMES by Federer who was in pathetic form. You bet Murray or Delpo will clean Djoko's clock.
Here is the secret (which is an open secret) on how to beat Fed: keep the balls in play and let him build his own noose. That's what happens when you play without a coach, you become sloppy. And Fed is mentally VERY SLOPPY. Fed will no longer be in the top tier with Sampras, Laver, and Borg, since none of these guys were ever dominated by their rivals. Fed will become the Emerson of his era, being dominated by both Rafa, Murray, and soon Djoko.
Excuses, excuses. Stop blaming the wind. Indian Wells final was much windier.
you could be onto something hereNovak is not back but he is getting there, you cant blame either Novak or Fed, they got sunny 1PM match with wind..
Both players are terrible.
It reminded me of Olympics with Fed-Berdych.
IMO, both players should have been eliminated from the tournament after that display and forced to play on the WTA for a while.
Djoko got broken 4 TIMES by Federer who was in pathetic form. You bet Murray or Delpo will clean Djoko's clock.
Here is the secret (which is an open secret) on how to beat Fed: keep the balls in play and let him build his own noose. That's what happens when you play without a coach, you become sloppy. And Fed is mentally VERY SLOPPY. Fed will no longer be in the top tier with Sampras, Laver, and Borg, since none of these guys were ever dominated by their rivals. Fed will become the Emerson of his era, being dominated by both Rafa, Murray, and soon Djoko.
I agree on your first point and have been saying since the beginning of the year that Djokovic has a way to go to regain his earlier form. He played a clever game against Federer, so he gets pluses for mental attitude but his overall game was very poor.Djokovic: I don't think he found the form yet. He just took the wide window of oppotunity Federer opened. Bascially this match did not really give Djokovic any good chance to test his game at the top level.
Federer: I don't think he is declining fast. Considering his two of heart-breaking loss to Nadal at Wimbledon and Australian Open, I think Federer is copying with it exceptionally well. But I don't think he is handling the #2 status very well. That's all.
How did Djokovic play in comparison to Roddick?
Excuses, excuses. Stop blaming the wind. Indian Wells final was much windier.
But you know nobody has not stopped him reaching slam finals yet and nobody has beaten healthy Federer convincingly(like in straight sets) at slams yet.
I'd say Roddick played better. Djokovic didn't do anything special and generally wasn't playing that great, Roger just fell apart. Credit to Novak for not losing focus though and doing what needed to be done.
Djokovic: I don't think he found the form yet. He just took the wide window of oppotunity Federer opened. Bascially this match did not really give Djokovic any good chance to test his game at the top level.
Federer: I don't think he is declining fast. Considering his two of heart-breaking loss to Nadal at Wimbledon and Australian Open, I think Federer is copying with it exceptionally well. But I don't think he is handling the #2 status very well. That's probably all. Maybe changes in his personal life might be affecting. Who knows.
But you know nobody has not stopped him reaching slam finals yet and nobody has beaten healthy Federer convincingly(like in straight sets) at slams yet.
Federer can't coast on talent alone anymore. He needs to work hard off the court and dedicate himself to the game a little bit more than before since he's getting older. But maybe he's too hard headed to admit that he needs to do that. If he doesn't do that his career will fall off further and faster. Not that it bothers me either. But he needs outside help and more work off the court. It's obvious now.
Federer has to go away. Obviously the new era of tennis has begun, and he's not part of it.Yes I quite agree. I still think tennis needs him around because although Murray and Djokovic are perfoming well at the moment, in the long term it is difficult to see whether they can stand the big test of time during the season.
Federer has to go away. Obviously the new era of tennis has begun, and he's not part of it.
Personaly I just think that Fed is over. To me here are the factors killiong Feds game :
- Tennisticaly Fed has a big problem with high balls on his backhand side he just can't deal with them. Fed HAS to do like Nadal and go back to school and WORK HEAVILY on that side. Rafa did it and just see how crosscourt and sometimes down the line he lines up some nice flat beautiful backhands. So why can't Fed do something about that ?
- Then mentally Federer is really showing how weak he is in his concentration... I just can't understand how a guy can brillantly win a first set against Murray or Djoko and just by his own explode and decline
- His forehand is letting him down match by match ! He's craking more often than not on that side every time he plays the big 3 (Murray, Djoko, Nadal).
- He doesn't have a coach... Wich to every specialist is a big error of him ! He just can't do the work alone !!
- Fed is possessed by Rafa and Murray !! Psycologicaly, Rafa and Murray has Fed... Murray won the 4 last matches opposing him to Fed and most of them Fed won the 1rst set... Nadal leads Fed by 9 to 4 in their confrontations !! That plays a big role !!
- And one last thing to me is that Fed lost that winning thing himself admitted that Rafa broke that star where he just used to win simply because the players aren't afraid of playing fed like before !! So I guess there was an emancipation of the spirit the players could have when to went ou to play Fed -- They now say "I can beat him".
Djokovic looked almost as lost out there as Federer.
That's funny. But yeah, Federer grip is slipping pretty fast now. When was Djokovic really here anyway. He kind of just hangs around the top on talent and overconfidence.(a little oversimplified but pretty damn close.)
That's funny. But yeah, Federer grip is slipping pretty fast now. When was Djokovic really here anyway. He kind of just hangs around the top on talent and overconfidence.(a little oversimplified but pretty damn close.)
Well, certainly this is a plus for Djokovic and should help him regain his confidence, but I'd say the biggest factor behind the result was definitely Federer's shocking form.
djokovic lost a set 6-2 against a fed who couldnt keep three balls in. he had to bunt it back to win the match. he al least used his head to win unlike fed who tried to kill everything
I thought is was 6-3 in the first set.......