Fed: Possible Reason for Losing to Djoker Last Year

Outbeyond

Outbeyond

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This is very interesting stuff. I'm not too surprised, as Roger has been playing tennis for one helluva long time and surely - and habitually - thinks ahead to other potential matches while he's battling it out with someone else...and why shouldn't he be thinking ahead? He's usually winning whatever he's playing! He's the genuine GOAT (with absolutely no sarcasm implied here...I think of him that way, for sure).

So his respect for Nadal is - to me, as a longtime Nadal fan - genuinely touching and inspiring. No matter how many slams Nadal wins in the end, Fed is one of a kind...ageless, priceless, talented beyond belief and, style-wise, pure class.

His take on last year's Open per an article in ESPN news:

Roger Federer loathes the concept of back-to-back men's semifinals and finals here at the U.S. Open. After he thumped Jo-Wilfried Tsonga on Friday, he explained why.

Last year, Federer said, he was actually looking ahead to playing Rafael Nadal in the next day's final -- while he was still playing Novak Djokovic in the semifinals. Federer, for one, is relieved that the USTA will play the men's final two matches Saturday and Monday.

"It's better for sure for my match now for Novak, for both of us, for that matter, just to be able go out there and play that match instead of thinking of something else. It is true that I did think of the Rafa final and the prospect, you know, trying to get there without maybe losing too much energy. Maybe that was one of the reasons I was not able to stay tougher in two of the sets I lost, actually.

"Still should have won the match maybe, but it's just a tough prospect. You never have it that we have to play back to back best of five set matches, and only here before the final at the U.S. Open. It just somehow doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me."
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Honestly, it's probably foolhardy for us mortals to actually look ahead. After all, Murray can beat Rafa; Djoker can beat Fed. But if Nadal and Fed do make it through to the final, it's apparently a dream not only for Rafa, the clay court specialist, to be there yet again but for Fed, the hardcourt specialist, to be there yet again.

All things go 'round and 'round...and where it stops, nobody knows.:)

http://espn.go.com/tennis/usopen11/...ael-nadal-foils-andy-roddick-final-four-hopes
 
Outbeyond

Outbeyond

Legend
^^ Well, I'm one of those perhaps rare Nadal fans who actually loves to watch Fed play and - when he's not playing Rafa - win! I also looked for and didn't see a thread on this topic and thought it was fresh news (I just read it myself today). Perhaps it's not.

But as a Fedal fan - unlike you - it was heartening.
 
obsessedtennisfandisorder

obsessedtennisfandisorder

Professional
here's last years press conference.

http://www.asapsports.com/show_interview.php?id=66266

sorry djoker fan but OP is onto something.

Now,he admits he didn't want totake on nadal if he was partly spent.
didn't get that impression last year..he diplomatic

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Yeah, of course, the excitement -- I mean, I don't read too much press once the tournament starts, but I can only try to imagine the excitement around the two of us maybe playing.
Q. Once you saw that Rafael had won, did you even have in your mind at all that you wanted to play him tomorrow? How much would you have been looking forward to that match? A lot of the fans obviously wanted that match.
ROGER FEDERER: Yeah, I mean, it happens all the time. Every other week when you make a final, you either see who's won before you or you go ahead and try to make it there. It's not something I've never had to deal with.
I would have loved to play against him here. I mean, I did my hard yards the last six years making it to the finals, and he was unfortunately never there.
That's obviously disappointing. And now one point away from this happening, obviously it's a bit of disappointment. But just being there and losing, that wouldn't have been nice either.
Now we'll never know how it would have gone, but if I would have made it to the finals I would have obviously wanted to win.

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Emet74

Professional
He didn't say it in the post-match presser last year, but he's said it in subsequent interviews more than once.

It's already been discussed here.
 
jackson vile

jackson vile

G.O.A.T.
jack_kramer said:
Any idiot who knows anything about ********* knows he tanked in the 5th to avoid a humiliating beatdown at the hands of Nadal. Especially on the occasion of Nadal's career Grand Slam. Nadal scares the sh*t out of the Swiss h*mo.
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No way, this is yet another example of Nadal cheating! That's right, all the intimidation, psychological warfare, tired groins! Boo Nadal, boo
 
zagor

zagor

Bionic Poster
jackson vile said:
No way, this is yet another example of Nadal cheating! That's right, all the intimidation, psychological warfare, tired groins! Boo Nadal, boo
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Your "neutrality" shows once again, siding with a homophobic poster.

Tired groin? I would retort with Nadal's excuses but I'd have to take the whole page numbering them.
 
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