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Not sure if this has already been posted before but about a month ago the US Open posted this neat little video with nice points from pretty much every match Fed played during his five-year reign over the US Open. Clocks in at a whopping 35 minutes and there are plenty of fun points to watch, so check it out if you want while GPPD burns in flames.
A few observations about this video:
- The Agassi QF in 2004 seems to be highlighted the most out of any of the matches in this compilation, and rightly so. It's a great match, marred a bit by the terrible wind for parts of it. Probably about 3 minutes in total for the match starting from 3:38.
- Missing the Fed-Lopez 2007 match??? A shame because there are some pretty nice points from there. There are a few other matches missing as well, but they're all early rounds thankfully.
- Sadly, a few matches with great Fed points are glossed over, but that's the price you pay for trying to condense something like this into 35 minutes.
- Pretty backhand fans, click on 17:40
- As for Fed's level of play, his forehand is just godly here. It was best in the 2004-2005 editions (as you can probably tell in the video) but 2006-2008 was phenomenal as well. The backhand, on the other hand, looked better in the 2006-2008 points (2006 looks like the best of the lot in this video which reflects how good it was in that tournament as a whole). Here, I step into controversy for a bit, but the 2004 USO forehand is probably the best forehand of all time imo.
Observations about Fed at the US Open irrespective of what the video shows:
- I think his best USO was 2004 and the worst of these five would be 2007, but only the good points are shown here so you wouldn't be able to tell. In order, I have them 2004 > 2006 > 2005 > 2008 > 2007. Not to say that 2007 Fed wasn't still incredible, but just not as good as the other four.
- I'd forgotten about the Andreev match in 2008 going five. Can anyone explain what exactly happened there? I'm not sure if I remember what it was that made Fed struggle so much here (and they also had a somewhat close match in AO 2010 IIRC).
- The matches I'd probably recommend to you all for the quality of play would be the 2004 QF, the 2005 SF-F, the 2006 QF and F, the 2007 QF, and the 2008 SF.
That was pretty long, but peak Fed at the US Open is my favorite player to watch honestly. It's why you've seen a little bit of fanboying here and also why I decided to make the thread in the first place. I know this thread will be susceptible to trolling, but if you can, keep it low for this one. 'ts all.
A few observations about this video:
- The Agassi QF in 2004 seems to be highlighted the most out of any of the matches in this compilation, and rightly so. It's a great match, marred a bit by the terrible wind for parts of it. Probably about 3 minutes in total for the match starting from 3:38.
- Missing the Fed-Lopez 2007 match??? A shame because there are some pretty nice points from there. There are a few other matches missing as well, but they're all early rounds thankfully.
- Sadly, a few matches with great Fed points are glossed over, but that's the price you pay for trying to condense something like this into 35 minutes.
- Pretty backhand fans, click on 17:40
- As for Fed's level of play, his forehand is just godly here. It was best in the 2004-2005 editions (as you can probably tell in the video) but 2006-2008 was phenomenal as well. The backhand, on the other hand, looked better in the 2006-2008 points (2006 looks like the best of the lot in this video which reflects how good it was in that tournament as a whole). Here, I step into controversy for a bit, but the 2004 USO forehand is probably the best forehand of all time imo.
Observations about Fed at the US Open irrespective of what the video shows:
- I think his best USO was 2004 and the worst of these five would be 2007, but only the good points are shown here so you wouldn't be able to tell. In order, I have them 2004 > 2006 > 2005 > 2008 > 2007. Not to say that 2007 Fed wasn't still incredible, but just not as good as the other four.
- I'd forgotten about the Andreev match in 2008 going five. Can anyone explain what exactly happened there? I'm not sure if I remember what it was that made Fed struggle so much here (and they also had a somewhat close match in AO 2010 IIRC).
- The matches I'd probably recommend to you all for the quality of play would be the 2004 QF, the 2005 SF-F, the 2006 QF and F, the 2007 QF, and the 2008 SF.
That was pretty long, but peak Fed at the US Open is my favorite player to watch honestly. It's why you've seen a little bit of fanboying here and also why I decided to make the thread in the first place. I know this thread will be susceptible to trolling, but if you can, keep it low for this one. 'ts all.
