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Grass is green.
With a lucky draw, red hot players taking out his nemesis Nadal and Djoker early, he still can win one more major. Once Rafa gets married to Xisca, you cannot expect the same level of intensity from him on the tennis courts. Very few people came back still firing on all cylinders after marriage.
Nadal is not getting married.
Nadal is already married.
Predicting the same as me, then?
Sad thing nowadays is that, when I come to the boards and take a look, I can't really tell sarcastic/ironic/surrealistic posts from actual stupid posts.
2010...his last great showing at a Slam as he won the AO and lost in the QF and SF stages for the 3 remaining Slams.
2011...made 1 final, lost the rest in the QF and SF stages.
Yet Federer and his fans still remain upbeat about his chances of winning more Slams and regaining the #1 ranking.:-?
I know he's in great health but how does he plan on winning anything with the likes of Djokovic and Nadal in his way? He can't beat them both back to back in a Slam. Even Federer fans know that.
I think so, yeah.
BTW I read some rumours (?) that Fed is planning to play a couple of exho's in South America (where he has never ever played before) at the tail end of the 2012 season. Should that be true, it surely feeds my suspicion that he might indeed call it quits at the end of 2012. I hope not.
OP, you asked a good question. I thought about the same question while driving this late evening. I am a his fan but honestly, his chance of winning is a bit less than of his previous success. The fact is he is aging. New guns ( like Sobad mentioned in another thread) might have the better chance of winning slams.
Federer doesn't necessarily have to beat them back to back. And nobody on here knows anything about future results.
True. Nadal lost in the QF at the AO in 2010 and 2011.
Past prime Fed is still a dangerous player on any given day. It will make it sweeter if he can win a slam in his 30s which some great players have failed
I don't understand the point of this discussion. Yes, Federer is not as good as he once was. He's 30. What did people expect? For him to get better? Once you're at the top, there's nowhere else to go but down.
wasn't 2009 worse than 2010 for Rog?
Don't take those posters seriously when they say Fed is getting better. They are the same posters who said Nadal(5 years younger) has declined.
What happened to the Every poll result is "Federer in two" thread ?
Federer certainly getting worse for everyone else.
You can't have the truth on this forum, he doesn't look so old anymore does he? Who know maybe all the padded excuses will stop.
Of course they won't. Saturday, it was the wind. Last month, it was yet another broken foot while getting up from a chair. At the end of last year, it was being too-well rested. Oh wait...
The sad part is that the excuses combine seamlessly together, I'm sick or possibly not sick, my back is hurt or it isn't, my groin... Uh, Oh wait, it is TIRED! No no, it was just a match up issue, that is what it was, or the courts are all now slow as of just this year all of a sudden. LOL
You can't have the truth on this forum, he doesn't look so old anymore does he? Who know maybe all the padded excuses will stop.
The sad part is that the excuses combine seamlessly together, I'm sick or possibly not sick, my back is hurt or it isn't, my groin... Uh, Oh wait, it is TIRED! No no, it was just a match up issue, that is what it was, or the courts are all now slow as of just this year all of a sudden. LOL
No but his tennis still looks very uninspired, subpeak, sloppy and flat, even more now than when he was 24.
Flu
Knee
Shoulder
Parent's divorce
Heat stroke
Pain in famous ***
Hurt stomach
Too tired
Too rusty
Combination of being too tired and too rusty
Wind
Surface too fast
Too many tournaments on HC
Schedule too long
Altitude
Etc. etc.
The sad part is that the excuses combine seamlessly together, I'm sick or possibly not sick, my back is hurt or it isn't, my groin... Uh, Oh wait, it is TIRED! No no, it was just a match up issue, that is what it was, or the courts are all now slow as of just this year all of a sudden. LOL
The sad part is that the excuses combine seamlessly together, I'm sick or possibly not sick, my back is hurt or it isn't, my groin... Uh, Oh wait, it is TIRED! No no, it was just a match up issue, that is what it was, or the courts are all now slow as of just this year all of a sudden. LOL
dont forget a hot plate with ominous intent and the broken foot that wasnt really broken but kinda felt like it was broken..sorta.
...you forgot having to leave the match -- in a really, really bad way -- at 4-5 in the second set, to drop the kids off at the pool.
Now that would be a better excuse, at least it has value! Also, it would explain why his groin was so tired and he could not play anymore.
Some day Nadal will use that excuse as well since these guys love to use each others excuses so much.
Federer has been playing the best tennis of all the top 4 since the USO, by some margin, and his record shows it. In these last six months he's won 41 of the 43 matches he played, winning 6 tournaments including the YEC and two Masters 1000. Even if you include the USO, where he barely lost to the top player in the world after having match points, he is 46-3 since then. He is 2-1 on the number 2 since then, and you can check his record against the rest of the top 10 since then. Federer's autumn has not yet gone beyond an Indian Summer that right now looks particularly golden. In this, Federer is not different from many of the all time greats before him who were also perfectly capable of playing at or very near their best level at the age of 30 and beating the best in the business -- all claims to the crippling effects of his age notwithstanding. What all time greats? Well, in receding order: Agassi, Sampras, Lendl, Connors, Laver, Rosewall, Gonzalez...and the historians will give you more names. Unless of course you believe that tennis changes at lightning speed and what was possible yesterday is not possible now. It's a popular belief, based mostly on journalistic illusions.
I can't believe you managed to turn an innocuous thread about Federer into a Nadal bashing one !You can't have the truth on this forum, he doesn't look so old anymore does he? Who know maybe all the padded excuses will stop.
Yes, the new guns are far more likely to win slams than federina going forward. And yes, Nadal and even Djokovic are much more likely to win slams. But I do disagree with the OP thesis, because the Fred has been improving every year so far. Fred played the best tennis of his career in 2011, but without the weak field it's impossible to win slams anymore with the limited talent.
2010...his last great showing at a Slam as he won the AO and lost in the QF and SF stages for the 3 remaining Slams.
2011...made 1 final, lost the rest in the QF and SF stages.
Yet Federer and his fans still remain upbeat about his chances of winning more Slams and regaining the #1 ranking.:-?
I know he's in great health but how does he plan on winning anything with the likes of Djokovic and Nadal in his way? He can't beat them both back to back in a Slam. Even Federer fans know that.
I like todays Fed (2012) more than 2006-2007 Fed in terms of variety of play and maturity on the court
He improved his bh a lot and included the dropshot as a weapon, he is more experienced and even though he is playing people 4 or 5 years younger he still dominates them
Cheers for the New Fed !!
You make an interesting point, Federer himself agrees with you.
Federer does not need more excuses, he needs to just go out there an play. If he can keep playing like this who knows how far he can go.
I have been saying this as he was racking up all those titles, and almost all his fans kept making old man excuses, and before he defeated Nadal it was match up excuses.
P.S It still remains utterly disgusting and hypocritical as ever criticizing a certain group of fans for making excuses for a 30-31 year old player while at the same time making excuses for your 24-25 year old idol.