‘I don't think I need the tennis’ – Roger Federer looks to life after sport after missing Wimbledon
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Thriller
Hall of Fame
Federer was the fastest to adapt his game to the new string technology in the early 2000s during the weakest era of all time. This allowed him to rack up a massive head start on the slam race.
It was only ever a question of whether his very healthy weakest era based lead would be enough to hold back the much more talented Nadal and Djokovic. He nearly made it but now both have surpassed him in numbers, as well as talent and the game is up.
A Harmony Tan style 1st round knockout would be an embarrassment. He now belongs on the couch.
kevaninho
Hall of Fame
Do people really need to be so bitter towards him ?
This crap about the game has passed him by etc.
Give the guy his credit. Hes probably the greatest player to ever hold a racket. He may have been surpassed physically by 2 younger ATGs, but lets not pretend he was just an average player in a weak era.
I wonder sometimes, if this place is full of teenage girls, rather than adults.
This crap about the game has passed him by etc.
Give the guy his credit. Hes probably the greatest player to ever hold a racket. He may have been surpassed physically by 2 younger ATGs, but lets not pretend he was just an average player in a weak era.
I wonder sometimes, if this place is full of teenage girls, rather than adults.
Dominic & Andrey
Legend
Can I ask about what you lot did to Sampras? Can TTW stop pretending that he was an average player "vulturing" a weak era? It's the natural course of events. You reap what you sow.
Do you miss McEnroe, Borg, Edberg, Wilander, Sampras or Laver? Everyone was consumed by Big 3. New stars will emerge and older retired players settle in history. I once saw Rusedski emerge out of the commentary box and I called out for an autograph. He was shocked as if - what's this guy doing asking me for my autograph? In his heydays as a an active player, he would've signed many autographs.
Stop dreaming that people will be missing them in 5-10 years time.
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TheNachoMan
Guest
Comparing Greg Rusedski to the big 3. lol
A video of your devastating forehand is circulating on this forum.
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Forget the Minimum vs Leed and other threads. For some real high-level tennis, stay tuned here. cheetah will soon be putting up an unedited video of us playing a set today. All I can reveal at this point is that the set score was 6-2.
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The Fedfather
Legend
She is my favorite vocalist ever. The Grammys performance was incredible, for some reason I liked the SNL in 1991 even more.
A true gift she had. At one point I was stuck watching every video of her best vocals on repeat. Mesmerizing talent.
RF-18
Talk Tennis Guru
Federer ain't retiring before giving it a one last shot. I wouldn't take these words too seriously. He wants to go out on his own terms. Ain't now way in hell he lets an injury take him out. As he has said he will be back for Laver Cup and Basel to get himself going again, and I expect him to play a light schedule next year customized for the slams with what could be his last year. Tennis fans will get to relive that feeling again of rooting for Federer when he goes out on court to try and win. No doubt about it.
joekapa
Legend
Think it's over.......
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Herald
Guest
Quite a weapon for the doubles tour!
All jokes aside, from a point construction perspective, the shot was a disaster. A competent baseliner, which Agassi remained well into his sciatica ridden 30s, could punish that shot with persistence. And credit to Federer, he made a major weakness into a great weapon - his short slices designed to lure in the competition set up his rather brilliant passing shots. But a field where Federer is able to compete as a premier baseliner relying on anything other than his serve and forehand is the stuff of nightmares.
Marco Rotim
Semi-Pro
Unfortunately Federer seems to have lost motivation because the Slams record is broken, he did not retire in 2013 and went on till 2021 to protect his record, I am glad he did for this long.
Now it seems with Nadal on 22 and Djokovic on 21 he is not inclined to come back and give it a shot at more majors, after all he is 41 and he has accepted it that it is gone forever. If Nadal today was on 19 and Djokovic on 18 then Federer would have returned to take Wimbledon very seriously, I am sure of it.
He still has it in him to give 1-2 seasons of the grind on the tour, maybe till 42 or 43, but he just doesn't want to do it now since the record is gone.
Frenchy-Player
Hall of Fame
WarriorRafa
Hall of Fame
Not counting him out just yet. Better to judge his level of play for about 6-12 months atleast before writing him off at the majors. With how weak the field is a 41 year old Fed can be competitive. The biggest question mark is how the injury has affected him movement and shot wise.
joekapa
Legend
I am sure there are clauses in it, which allow him to exit gracefully. Takes a pay cut....so what ?
Thanks for stating the obvious, useful for the uneducated.
Incognito
Legend
young Mariah was amazing, the debut album and Music Box that followed. Her sound was so open and resonant. She was one of my favorites.
Federev
G.O.A.T.
That you post this and have a Srdjan avatar = my mental and emotional circuits are now laid waste by a massive internal explosion that consumed all my neural pathways in a fiery flash of blazing heat and light.
People really want to believe so bad, that Fed is just melting in his own misery for losing the slam battle.
As Nadal himself said, at the end of the day those three are fairly equal and the true orange to orange goat test between the three would have been if Roger was in the same age group as Rafa and Djoko.
He has broken many records is a multi millionaire and has many other business initiatives on the side and somehow we want to believe that life as he know it is over for Fed. SMH.
As Nadal himself said, at the end of the day those three are fairly equal and the true orange to orange goat test between the three would have been if Roger was in the same age group as Rafa and Djoko.
He has broken many records is a multi millionaire and has many other business initiatives on the side and somehow we want to believe that life as he know it is over for Fed. SMH.
aldeayeah
G.O.A.T.
thegr8anand
New User
People are delusional if they think Roger will be forgotten because he is behind Rafa and Novak in Slams. If that was the case every body would be calling Laver, Sampras, etc as average players. Roger will always be the most talented of the 3 and his fan following shows that. No doubt about it Rafa and Novak are ATGs but Roger even after being 6 year older was the only one who provided any competition where newgen have failed massively.
Musterrific
Hall of Fame
He'd need to win 3 more slams to retake the lead, and then there's no guarantee at all that either Nadal or Djokovic won't surpass him again in such a scenario. It's an impossible ask.
Mind you, I don't think he's put in all the hard work into rehab and fitness just for nothing. He'll play LC and Basel this year, and then a light schedule next year, with a grand exit at Wimbledon. I'd be surprised if he didn't stick to that.
He could not keep up with the modern game but still managed to win 20 slams.
You think he lost the 2019 final against Novak when he had several match points due to his backhand ?
Do you factor the age difference between him and those two at all?
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