You vs Federer!

nfor304

Banned
I play for City University, in London. Isn't too bad, in my opinion.
But like somebody said, I'd win as many points as he allows me to win.

Do you have an ATP ranking? Because if you dont you would get double bagelled by any challenger player and most futures players.
 

Tennis_Monk

Hall of Fame
Good ol' Roger just happens to be having a stroll by your local tennis club where you happen to be alone, and practicing serves. He's feeling friendly.

"Hey Roger, how's it going?"
"Good thanks, you?"
"Not bad thanks. Wanna have a hit?"
"Yeah, sure".

How many points do you think you can take off him? A game perhaps?
Personally, I think I may be able to take him to a deuce or something.

What about you?

I can see that you are still acting as a new member in some aspects.
Every one knows that any decent 3.5 TW forum member can give fits to Federer. Federer would struggle to make points against a TW forum 4.0 player.

There is a reason why ATP is ranked couple of notches below TW forum.

Even if you are a new comer into this forum, all you need is to read a bunch of threads and you know exactly how to play Federer (Just hit to his backhand, be aggressive, hit to his forehand, S^V, stay at baseline, etc etc)

Coming to your original question, i am not sure if i want to play Federer and be in a NO WIN scenario. Imagine. If I win, it is expected. If Federer some how wins, it is considered sensational.

phew...these ATP top pros.. they get all the breaks.
 

Fedace

Banned
I guess if Fed plays like his life depends on it, most of us would be very lucky to get 1 point in a set.

What if you started the match 6-0 5-0 40-0 ?? Do you think you can take Fed out and beat him...???? you only need one point.......Just to make it interesting,,,, in case he comes back in that last game,,,,,,lets say, you will have 40-0 start in Every game from that point on. :):)
CAN YOU TAKE FED OUT ?????????
 

raiden031

Legend
I might win 3-4 points in a set at most. The only reason I might win a point would be:

Very lucky shot

OR

Unforced error
 

The-Champ

Legend
Actually not a long time ago I had a dream (in my sleep) that I had beaten Federer in a set, 6-0. LOL. I know it's impossible. Should be the other way around. But it was nice to beat him anyway.


was it on clay? Were you left-handed wearing a bandana?:)
 

Ano

Hall of Fame
What if you started the match 6-0 5-0 40-0 ?? Do you think you can take Fed out and beat him...???? you only need one point.......Just to make it interesting,,,, in case he comes back in that last game,,,,,,lets say, you will have 40-0 start in Every game from that point on. :):)
CAN YOU TAKE FED OUT ?????????

My chance of taking him out in that condition would be less than 50 percent.

I'm being realistic. My serve would be considered a melon by him. His second serve would be a bomb for me.

He could only hit his groundies down the middle and still give me a hard time. :)
 
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1970CRBase

Guest
Originally Posted by sanmazz
When I played Federer(in practice) I won 6 games. He handed me a 3 and 3 lose

If what you're saying is true, How long have you been playing? What's your NTRP ranking? and what kind of a player are you?

He's obviously talking about one of those Topspin games. :)
 

endbegin

Rookie
I'd win just 1 point because one of my FHs would hit the net cord and roll over. Even that he could get to if he wanted to, but he wouldn't because he'd be busy laughing.
 

Cup8489

G.O.A.T.
I'd win just 1 point because one of my FHs would hit the net cord and roll over. Even that he could get to if he wanted to, but he wouldn't because he'd be busy laughing.

that's how i'd do it. or get ridiculously lucky and hit a super-drop shot off a sloppy shot from him.

junkballing? i doubt it. maybe if i was allowed a doubles partner and he only allowed one shot per point..
 

ubermeyer

Hall of Fame
Good ol' Roger just happens to be having a stroll by your local tennis club where you happen to be alone, and practicing serves. He's feeling friendly.

"Hey Roger, how's it going?"
"Good thanks, you?"
"Not bad thanks. Wanna have a hit?"
"Yeah, sure".

How many points do you think you can take off him? A game perhaps?
Personally, I think I may be able to take him to a deuce or something.

What about you?

you're a fool if you think you could take him to a deuce, or indeed win a single point, if you were playing your hardest, unless you're like a VERY top [male] junior or are ATP ranked.

No points for me.
 

ubermeyer

Hall of Fame
I don't know about game but like I said some points should be doable. I don't think I have ever in my life witnessed someone winning a golden set from someone. That is a pretty hard thing to pull off. That means 24 points in a row. It's sorta like me going out and playing against a 3.0 player and winning every single point. Is it possible? of course. But something is bound to happen where that person wins a point.

there's a far larger gap between you and fed and you and a 3.0

and once a pro golden-setted another pro.
 

edberg505

Legend
there's a far larger gap between you and fed and you and a 3.0

and once a pro golden-setted another pro.

I never said it didn't happen, but something like that happening is a very rare occurrence. I've been playing since I was 9 and I've never seen it happen, hell I've never even heard of it happening to anyone. I heard someone on tv say it happened once. But the very fact that you hear someone saying it happened to someone (like a bigfoot sighting) gives you an idea of just how rare it is. I find it hard to believe that a 5.0 or 5.5 player wouldn't get a point.
 

Mick

Legend
i hate to break this to some of you guys but even if federer was playing at warm up speed for the entire match, he would still bagel every single one of you.
 

35ft6

Legend
You want to see some serious beat downs, check out some of the results in the qualifiers of futures and even the main draws. A kid that used to be ranked top 10 in the country in Boys 14's, who recently got to the semifinals of singles and doubles in Boys 18 at the Zoo, lost to UCLA's number 6 singles player Michael Look 6-1, 6-1. Look beat some other dude 0 and 0. And the guys in the futures qualifiers are generally 6.0 and higher.

Or go to the US Open qualifiers. I watched Kevin Kim, fresh off his second dominant NCAA season, get beat 1 and 1 by Jan Vacek. In some of the pro qualifier tournament, you see some true beat downs being handed out to guys with ATP rankings by guys who would struggle to win a few games off Fed.

Even the whole "I'll go for aces and winners" strategy, what might be a winner against your friend isn't going to be a winner against the local college star, let alone a pro ranked in the 500's, let alone Federer. Fed is used to playing successful defense against guys like Nadal, Verdasco, Roddick, and Djokovic. Plus, you're striking these winners off shots that don't have the same precision, action, and speed of a Federer ball. Same thing with "aces," what might be an ace against one person is a sitting duck for another person. Fed routinely faces incredibly precise 130 mph serves hit by guys with very deceptive and smooth service motions.

Again, go watch some qualies to see what kind of beat downs happen. Lots of bagels being served in those draws. To really good players. I think people are seriously underestimating just what it means to be talked about as the best player of all time. His regular body shot, his warm up ball, is going to come at you faster and with more action than anything you've ever faced.

Most of us would barely win points against a guy ranked 900 in the world. He, I see some John Patrick Smith of University of Kentucky is currently 982 in the world. He's ranked 3 in the country in NCAA singles. Go win some points off him, see how easy it is. :)
 
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edberg505

Legend
You want to see some serious beat downs, check out some of the results in the qualifiers of futures and even the main draws. A kid that used to be ranked top 10 in the country in Boys 14's, who recently got to the semifinals of singles and doubles in Boys 18 at the Zoo, lost to UCLA's number 6 singles player Michael Look 6-1, 6-1. Look beat some other dude 0 and 0. And the guys in the futures qualifiers are generally 6.0 and higher.

Or go to the US Open qualifiers. I watched Kevin Kim, fresh off his second dominant NCAA season, get beat 1 and 1 by Jan Vacek. In some of the pro qualifier tournament, you see some true beat downs being handed out to guys with ATP rankings by guys who would struggle to win a few games off Fed.

Even the whole "I'll go for aces and winners" strategy, what might be a winner against your friend isn't going to be a winner against the local college star, let alone a pro ranked in the 500's, let alone Federer. Fed is used to playing successful defense against guys like Nadal, Verdasco, Roddick, and Davydenko. Plus, you're striking these winners off shots that don't have the same precision, action, and speed of a Federer ball. Same thing with "aces," what might be an ace against one person is a sitting duck for another person. Fed routinely faces incredibly precise 130 mph serves hit by guys with very deceptive and smooth service motions.

Again, go watch some qualies to see what kind of beat downs happen. Lots of bagels being served in those draws. To really good players. I think people are seriously underestimating just what it means to be talked about as the best player of all time. His regular body shot, his warm up ball, is going to come at you faster and with more action than anything you've ever faced.

Most of us would barely win points against a guy ranked 900 in the world. He, I see some John Patrick Smith of University of Kentucky is currently 982 in the world. He's ranked 3 in the country in NCAA singles. Go win some points off him, see how easy it is. :)

Yeah, I wish I was still around Mississippi when Devin Britton was up and coming. I'd love to play a set against him. I will however play against my friend's son who was Devin's hitting partner. I'm supposed to play him this weekend. I hear he's pretty good. He's one of the top juniors in the country. I've played against some really good guys in college too. A few of them had an ATP ranking and getting points wasn't the problem for me, it was getting freaking games. Now I played a guy here at the Uni. and I got mauled, basically because I hadn't played in ages. But we played some close games but actually getting games is a different story. I'd like to play Federer in a set now just to see if I could get points. It'd be better if I could play him right out of college though.
 

mawashi

Hall of Fame
I love threads like this cus I know what I'll do. Even if Fed told me where n how hard he's going to hit the ball I doubt I can handle his power.

Just look at Sean Gregory trying to take on of Novak's 125 serve. Mind you Novak even said where n how hard he was going to hit the ball LOL!

@ 1 min into the vid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0dldQUtRbo&feature=related

I'll just squeal like a girl, lose badly, laugh about it, ask to exchange tees n racquets n then FINALLY I get the actual FED's frame LOL!

mawashi
 

ninman

Hall of Fame
You understand that when you watch Federer playing, you're watching him play the best players in the world. I once saw a BBC news programme where they trained up the sports correspondent to play against a 12 year old, and they said he would do well to win 5 points in a full set.

A better question might be if you could win a game or 2 against Jimmy Connors, or JMac, these guys are in their 50's/60's, so no problem for you people right?
 
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TennisandMusic

Guest
Yeah, I wish I was still around Mississippi when Devin Britton was up and coming. I'd love to play a set against him. I will however play against my friend's son who was Devin's hitting partner. I'm supposed to play him this weekend. I hear he's pretty good. He's one of the top juniors in the country. I've played against some really good guys in college too. A few of them had an ATP ranking and getting points wasn't the problem for me, it was getting freaking games. Now I played a guy here at the Uni. and I got mauled, basically because I hadn't played in ages. But we played some close games but actually getting games is a different story. I'd like to play Federer in a set now just to see if I could get points. It'd be better if I could play him right out of college though.

Come on man, do you see how absurd this statement is? Look at what you're saying. I actually can't believe you're saying some of the things you are in this thread. If you're lucky you win a point or two. That's it. And it would be entirely up to him. Federer (or any top pro) could play complete softball for his standards and wipe the floor with you. Same goes for anyone on here (unless there are some secret pros).
 

Inanity

New User

That vid is a pretty good display of the disparity between pros and rec players with the angle it's taken from. This is the guy who's a "pusher" amongst pros and he's hitting safe practice shots with 99% accuracy that are heavy enough to give any average player fits even if its right at them.
 

justafa

New User
Come on man, do you see how absurd this statement is? Look at what you're saying. I actually can't believe you're saying some of the things you are in this thread. If you're lucky you win a point or two. That's it. And it would be entirely up to him. Federer (or any top pro) could play complete softball for his standards and wipe the floor with you. Same goes for anyone on here (unless there are some secret pros).

Disagreed. Of course Federer would destroy him, but maybe not Murray. Come on, Murray is a pusher who just pushes the ball. If Eberbg05 plays his best he could have some good rallies with Murray. Win some points, or maybe games! Heck, he could probably take a set or two from pusher Murray. And playing Monfils hack or Santoro junkballer would be even easier! Give some credit to that poster.
 
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Deleted member 21996

Guest
Except in the '09 US Open final in which Roger was clearly not taking every point as seriously as he usually does and doing some very un-Federer like things out there. :shock:

haven't you heard he spent the night nurturing the babies? now add that to the Momo (mono... sorry....) and the bad back and you can see why Del Potro won... :twisted:
 

nfor304

Banned
You want to see some serious beat downs, check out some of the results in the qualifiers of futures and even the main draws. A kid that used to be ranked top 10 in the country in Boys 14's, who recently got to the semifinals of singles and doubles in Boys 18 at the Zoo, lost to UCLA's number 6 singles player Michael Look 6-1, 6-1. Look beat some other dude 0 and 0. And the guys in the futures qualifiers are generally 6.0 and higher.

Or go to the US Open qualifiers. I watched Kevin Kim, fresh off his second dominant NCAA season, get beat 1 and 1 by Jan Vacek. In some of the pro qualifier tournament, you see some true beat downs being handed out to guys with ATP rankings by guys who would struggle to win a few games off Fed.

Even the whole "I'll go for aces and winners" strategy, what might be a winner against your friend isn't going to be a winner against the local college star, let alone a pro ranked in the 500's, let alone Federer. Fed is used to playing successful defense against guys like Nadal, Verdasco, Roddick, and Djokovic. Plus, you're striking these winners off shots that don't have the same precision, action, and speed of a Federer ball. Same thing with "aces," what might be an ace against one person is a sitting duck for another person. Fed routinely faces incredibly precise 130 mph serves hit by guys with very deceptive and smooth service motions.

Again, go watch some qualies to see what kind of beat downs happen. Lots of bagels being served in those draws. To really good players. I think people are seriously underestimating just what it means to be talked about as the best player of all time. His regular body shot, his warm up ball, is going to come at you faster and with more action than anything you've ever faced.

Most of us would barely win points against a guy ranked 900 in the world. He, I see some John Patrick Smith of University of Kentucky is currently 982 in the world. He's ranked 3 in the country in NCAA singles. Go win some points off him, see how easy it is. :)

I've taken sets off both Look and JP smith :)


But it was about 6 years ago in the juniors and they're about 2 years younger than me.

I'm pretty sure they would both double bagel me easily now though
 

justafa

New User
haven't you heard he spent the night nurturing the babies? now add that to the Momo (mono... sorry....) and the bad back and you can see why Del Potro won... :twisted:

Federer suffered mild case of mono in AO 2008 SF. Once the virus is in the system, it can flare up anytime.
 
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TheMagicianOfPrecision

Guest
Good ol' Roger just happens to be having a stroll by your local tennis club where you happen to be alone, and practicing serves. He's feeling friendly.

"Hey Roger, how's it going?"
"Good thanks, you?"
"Not bad thanks. Wanna have a hit?"
"Yeah, sure".

How many points do you think you can take off him? A game perhaps?
Personally, I think I may be able to take him to a deuce or something.

What about you?
I hope you are joking with all of us...
 

edberg505

Legend
Come on man, do you see how absurd this statement is? Look at what you're saying. I actually can't believe you're saying some of the things you are in this thread. If you're lucky you win a point or two. That's it. And it would be entirely up to him. Federer (or any top pro) could play complete softball for his standards and wipe the floor with you. Same goes for anyone on here (unless there are some secret pros).

Ah, I see. So you are implying that I haven't played people with ATP ranking points. Hmm, I guess I must have imagined my whole college career.
 
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