My point is the next 9 months for Roger from that point could be summed up as "The Impossible Dream". It was better than any of his even his most ardent fans would dare to dream of. Furthermore he was MUCH closer to losing to Roddick in the Wimbledon final and a whole bunch of times at Roland Garros than he was to winning the Australian or U.S Open finals. To think he was unlucky in anyway that year, and should have won the Grand Slam is a huge ROTFL!!! Also yes he deserved his success, injuries and what not are part of the game, but if you deny he had some good fortune with the unexpected things that happened, particularly Nadal's fall out (for whatever variety of reasons) you are kidding yourself.
Again as a Federer fan you should be deliriously thrilled with 2009. And nothing more. The end.
Still the facts show he was only 2 sets away from winning the Grand Slam (and in the context of winning the 2008 US Open and the 2010 Australian Open - actually 2 sets away from a 6 slam win streak). I am not saying he was unlucky, I am just saying he was close. And that is a fact, he was just two sets away.