Federer news

[babbette]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FPoR...&feature=feedu

Post match presser

[Sentinel]

The title made me laugh
Click.

[bolo]

Originally Posted by nadalbestclass

LOL. So I was skipping presser scripts. Journos are such retards

Fed post Feli match. Though this was funny from Fed


You can find all the pressers here:
http://www.ubitennis.com/english/spo...m_madrid.shtml

lol. 10 char.

[babbette]

^^what was particularly funny bolo?

[Hood_Man]

I like it, looks like the same shade of red as the lollipops I'd be given at the hairdressers when I was a kid.

[cknobman]

I think the entire outfit from bandana to shoes looks completely bad@ss (especially the shoes).

[DragonBlaze]

Originally Posted by cknobman

I think the entire outfit from bandana to shoes looks completely bad@ss (especially the shoes).

I want those shoes dammit...

[niff]

Dorkofed reacts to SIs sexy caption.

[jackson vile]

Where will Federer end up in the FO? He is playing worse than Novak, Nadal, and Murray.

[babbette]

Originally Posted by niff

Dorkofed reacts to SIs sexy caption.

This picture is so freaking funny! His face is priceless

[sdfedfans]

Video interview with Credit suisse

https://multimedia.credit-suisse.com...=video&lang=EN

[Semi-Pro]

Rogi practicing on RG center court:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAglx...eature=feedlik

[Smasher08]

Originally Posted by Hood_Man

I like it, looks like the same shade of red as the lollipops I'd be given at the hairdressers when I was a kid.

The shoes definitely rock, the shirt I'm not so sure about.

[AM95]

rodger practicing on teh dirt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCR7k8j3CKE

[niff]

[niff]

[Sentinel]

Where are these pics from? Did you notice the "La Monf" on Monfils' bag. Isn't "La" used for feminine in French ??

[Pidgeon]

Originally Posted by Sentinel

Where are these pics from? Did you notice the "La Monf" on Monfils' bag. Isn't "La" used for feminine in French ??

Yes it is, a bit strange but apparently it's his nickname.

Wikipedia :
Gaël is nicknamed "La Monf", or occasionally "Sliderman" due to his unusual sliding technique, especially on clay surfaces.

[niff]

I like pics, I know I post so many

[niff]

Long German interview, quite balanced. Interesting with "But I consider whether I will play next year directly again in Indian Wells and thereafter in Miami", there were rumours before that he was considering skipping one.

Translated: http://www.faz.net/s/Rub9CD731D06F17...~Scontent.html

"I am able to play still many years "

Q: How do you feel as number three of the world rank list?

A:Not much differently than in former times. Afterall, I slipped down [in the ranking] not because of bad play. I could surely have better played with the Grand Slam tournaments. Paris and Wimbledon were not the yellow of the egg. I up-played end of last yearly extremely strongly and see myself to be on the right way. I do not feel necessarily as number three, although the classification surely says the truth. But I am presented with tournaments not as number three, but as Roger Federer.

Q: Could you resign yourselves to play behind Nadal and Djokovic only the third violin?

A: As long as I know the fact that I can win large tournaments and have joy in tennis it would not be a problem for me. But naturally I am rather the number one than three. But just now we are in a very interesting phase. I have to defend very few points. If I play in Paris and Wimbledon well, I can make a large leap. It is short term my goal of becoming again the number one.

Q: Did you hold your level or to have you weakened? Did the competitors become better?

If I compare myself with 2005, I play today surely better. We improved all. Surely the distances at the top became much closer, so that it is still more difficult to win the whole time. The fact that I am no longer so dominant has to do also with the fact that I changed my planning [ Roger, be quiet.] 2005, 2006 and 2007 I skipped many Masters 1000 (the largest tournaments after the four Grand Slam tournaments) and set more on smaller tournaments. I granted myself many breaks, in order to regenerate.

Q: Such as Djokovic just did with renouncement of Monte Carlo?

A: Yes, Novak played then only again in Belgrade - and won. Thus he maintained his series remained and it boosted his self-assurance further. Thus I did this also for a long time, until the criticism of the ATP, players and from tournaments became too loud. I decided then to play all Masters 1000 or as at least possibly seven or eight of nine. I make that, because it is good for the tennis, although I do not play now 15 and 16 Finals any more. But I consider whether I will play next year directly again in Indian Wells and thereafter in Miami.

Q: Against Djokovic you lost now three times successively. How do you stop such negative series?

A: I beat him twice before. But we are both much to good players, that one of us could lose ten times in series. In Australia it was very close, in Indian Wells I was again very close. Novak now is in a phase, in which he can simply slam on the balls. But clearly, I think about it, what I must change next time against him.

Q: Djokovic is certainly the man of the first half year. Would you have thought capable of to him to intervene in the duel Nadal - Federer?

A: He had the capability for a long time. For some time it was between Nadal, Djokovic, Murray and me back and forth. End of last year I won more against top five, now is it Djokovic.

Q: When is it your turn again?

A: The chances stand naturally in Wimbledon best. In addition, in Paris I figure out chances. Of course it is not completely simple to crack the castle, which Nadal built there. There he is the exceptional player and only once lost. But one should not tell oneself that it is impossible to beat him there.

Q: Do defeats gnaw at you?

A: Today that is easier than in former times. As a young player, who wanted to create the break-through, each defeat was a step back and a giant disappointment. Today that is different, because I know that I tried everything in each match, the opponent played well or it came down perhaps only to few points. Perhaps tactically I could have changed a few things.

Q:You still play with a very small Racket. Sampras advised you to a larger racket as he did on the seniors tour. Is that applicable for you?

A: I changed already once, 2002, from the Sampras racquet to my current model. Every so often I test larger racquets. The problem is that I have no time for detailed tests.

Q: The young Bulgare Grigor Dimitrov is often compared with you. Can there be a second Federer?

A: Dimitrovs play resembles technically mine extremely. But it should not be the goal of players of imitating others. I see now many players try to play like Nadal, although it is not at all their play. I always said, you must find your own style. At the beginning of my career I was often compared with Sampras, although he played Serv and Volley, which I never really did. There will never be a second Martina Hingis, second Pete Sampras or second Roger Federer. [Haha<3]

Q: You are playing now against young people, which grew up with you as Idol. How does that feel?

A: It was actually the most beautiful time, when I was allowed to play against people, which I had admired still on the television, like Moya, Henman, Sampras, Agassi or Chang. Against Nadal, Djokovic or Murray it is not so special, that is simply the next generation. I find it brilliant that I play now against people like the young German Julian Reister, which grew up with me as model.

Q: Thus still no tennis tiredness, although you become 30 years old on 8 August and in Ethiopia were estimated to be 45 already?

A: Yes, that was really fun. When eating in Ethiopia a girl asked me, how old I was, and I let her estimate her. She said, it was tricky for her to determine the age of white people and called then this number. No, I do not think of stopping. I am mental in the position to play still many years long. I have firm plans for everything already right up to the Olympic Games 2012 in London, and now planning begins for the time thereafter. For me it is simply important, the balance between training, match, holidays and family lives. Also I have plenty to do with press and sponsor dates as well as promotion for tournaments. All that must be combined well.

Q: Can you switch off in the vacation totally?

A: Yes, I can relax there totally. To Australia we had one supervacation. But I do not want to get again into a terrible muscular strain when I begin training again afterwards. Therefore I played tennis with my wife Mirka in the last vacation three times. After ten days my endurance trainer came for a few days. I do not want that my body down shifts totally.

Q: They have now two scarcely two years old twin daughters. Is the life for a tennis professional with family more difficult? Does it divert you?

A: The family is surely a diverson, but a good diverson. For me the family is a dream, which became also true. One must just organize everything well. We travel with a maid, so that Mirka can see my plays. And the two small ones go, if possible, also on journeys. After the matches I do not hang around any longer for a long time in the changing room, and after training I sit in the car already ten minutes after the end.

Q: Do your twin daughters already know that their father is a world star?

A: They recognize me in pictures, on posters and on the television. That is simply sweet. My children already watched me play few times in matches. In Basel they participated in the award of the prize and applauded. Those are the small things, which make happy, proud and and also motivate me.

Q: Do Myla Rose and Charlene Riva already play tennis?

A: We do not travel with small racquets, with which they would use to ruin the walls. But it can surely be that they come rather to the tennis as to other kinds of sport. That is not our goal. It would be fun for us if they would do many kinds of sport. That is good for the health and for the life. One learns to lose and win. That's what is all about and not to form to superstars in tennis.

Q: Do you lead a restricted life?

No, I can do what I want. If I want to go to for the meal out of the hotel, I can without problems. I just have to prepare myself to be recognized. Sometimes one desires this and sometimes not. Also my children are not pursued. I am glad that my private life is respected and I'm not in the gossip press. Probably they know that we are simply a completely normal family.

Q: They called your life once dream. Is that today still valid?

A: Obviously! One must sometimes deliberate look at oneself back: What would one have signed, when one was eight years old? Even when I had won with 17 years the junior tournament in Wimbledon, I would have never thought that I would have once so much success, although at that time already many said you can become the number one. A single Wimbledon victory would have already been enough for me at that time. Add to this my large joy in playing tennis.

Q: Do you read newspaper? Do you read, what is written about you?

Yes, from time to time, it depends also on the fact whether I am successful or not. Since Miami, since the defeat against Nadal, I don't want to know what was written over me. I omit then the sports section and simply, read, what happened in Switzerland, in the world and in the economy. This always served me well. I do not want to enter a press conference and know that this journalist has written that Federer can no more tennis play and should better stop. I want to be able to answer completely normally to questions and not develop antipathy against journalists. Those also do only their job. I once explained that in such a way: The press conferences are a washing machine. There you are revved up and out-spat again. And at the end nothing happened.