Hole in Federer Resume

beltsman

beltsman

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Federer has not won the USO since 2008. This is a huge hole in his resume. It has been nearly a decade. He has won on RG more recently than USO.
 
Nobody since Federer in 2008 has defended the US Open yet.
It's not that big of a hole considering that 6 players defended the US Open. Comparing to the 10 different players defended the Aus Open, 7 at Roland Garros and 8 at Wimbledon. The USO is the toughest mayor to defend, let alone win it 5 straight times. It's almost an injustice he doesn't have a 6th USO, but the 5th at AO makes an even more balanced Slam winning count.
 
1.Hot Red Head.
2. Masculine look.
3. Suspension or 3rd warning.
4. Never broken 2x racquets in Major.
5. Eaten Family Pizza 18" within 30min.
6. Wembley.
7. Won Goat {cows are cool, but goats!}
8. Party drugs (or acknowledged it)

Think that's about all. Could go Olympic singles gold but it's less than 250 now, so who cares.
 
beltsman said:
Federer has not won the USO since 2008. This is a huge hole in his resume. It has been nearly a decade. He has won on RG more recently than USO.
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So what?
He's been the God at USO--reached the final 6 times in a row and claimed 5 titles in a row.Let alone that he still reached final in 2015 at the age of 34.
Nobody else is close to him at this point.
 
Rogerjohnson81 said:
Federer has had a bit of bad luck at the USO. It is funny he has won all other slams including Wimbledon twice and the Australian open twice since his last USO. 2009 was a big opportunity missed.

2010 & 2011 were shocks as he should have won those semis. 2012 the old racket at the USO started to get hard for him. Past that he wasn't in his prime although in 2014 he should have done better and of course should have gotten those breaks in 2015. Del Po, Berdych and Cilic exposed Federer's problem with power on a fast hard court. Fast helps Fed if he is on but if he is off like in 12 and 14 he can't hold his serve and will have a tough time breaking.

Fed won 5 in a row for utter domination of the USO. His legacy is secure there. But Fed said himself the Aussie is his most consistent slam.
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You want to talk about bad luck at USO? Djokovic is 2-5 in the slam. If he had Federer's win rate here, he'd have 15 slams.
 
Federer's other holes include:

No Olympic singles gold medal
Not breaking the record for most YE#1s
Not beating Djokovic in a Wimbledon final
Not beating Nadal at the FO
Deficient H2H against Nadal and Djokovic

And much much more. Too many to mention.

Talk about Swiss cheese.
 
Blocker said:
Federer's other holes include:

No Olympic singles gold medal
Not breaking the record for most YE#1s
Not beating Djokovic in a Wimbledon final
Not beating Nadal at the FO
Deficient H2H against Nadal and Djokovic

And much much more. Too many to mention.

Talk about Swiss cheese.
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I agree, look at Sampras in comparision , he has so few holes

no Olympics single gold medal
Not beating Krajicek in a Wimbledon final
Not beating Agassi at the AO
Not having most weeks at #1
Deficient h2h against Krajicek, Bruguera, Stich etc.
Not making a single FO final


Having most of his records obliterated by federer !

oh sh*t ! :oops:
 
The USO desert is a huge hole that's true, but for me the biggest negative in Federer's resume is that he needed 5 sets to beat Nadal at the AO 2017. Should have been a straigth set demolition. Him being unable to do it is utterly pathetic.
 
Blocker said:
Federer's other holes include:

No Olympic singles gold medal
Not breaking the record for most YE#1s
Not beating Djokovic in a Wimbledon final
Not beating Nadal at the FO
Deficient H2H against Nadal and Djokovic

And much much more. Too many to mention.

Talk about Swiss cheese.
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The bottom 3 aren't holes in the slightest and the top 2 are quite minor considering he has the weeks at number 1 record and the 237 consecutive weeks.
 
Don't worry, that hole will be filled. Whenever there's a hole in his career, the stars align to make him achieve what he's missing.
 
beltsman said:
Federer has not won the USO since 2008. This is a huge hole in his resume. It has been nearly a decade. He has won on RG more recently than USO.
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Blocker said:
Federer's other holes include:

No Olympic singles gold medal
Not breaking the record for most YE#1s
Not beating Djokovic in a Wimbledon final
Not beating Nadal at the FO
Deficient H2H against Nadal and Djokovic

And much much more. Too many to mention.

Talk about Swiss cheese.
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He beaten Djokovic is a Wimbledon semi - same diff.
 
NatF said:
Give it a rest man, or better yet watch some tennis from those years :rolleyes:
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I don't deny Roger's all time greatness, but certainly his main competition before Nadal and Novak and even Murray reached their best was not consistently great. Roger's main competition, besides Agassi who won most of his slams before 03, won less slams than Novak or Nadal did combined. In reality though, there are no important holes in Roger's career.
 
thrust said:
I don't deny Roger's all time greatness, but certainly his main competition before Nadal and Novak and even Murray reached their best was not consistently great. Roger's main competition, besides Agassi who won most of his slams before 03, won less slams than Novak or Nadal did combined. In reality though, there are no important holes in Roger's career.
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It's not how much they won but how they played on their day.
 
Federer has no REAL holes in his resume. People are over-critical to a fault. The guy's not a machine...

He HAS won 7 Wimbledon titles (five consecutive), 5 US Open (five consecutive), 5 Australian Open in total, 1 clay court GS at Roland Garros, 6 YEC, a Davis Cup with little Switzerland for God's sakes, (I know he had Stan as team-mate, but ya know) and Olympic gold (doubles)...the biggest prize missing therefore is Olympic gold singles, and it's very much a secondary consideration in tennis.

Roger's racked up amazing numbers.

I do wish his H2H with Rafa looked a little better, but that's a small quibble to me. A win over Rafa at Roland Garros would have been great, I'll say that. A US Open meeting with Nadal never happened. Maybe it still might.

Fed's five years past prime. Anything he wins now is a bonus. I hope he can win Monte Carlo/Rome in his remaining years.
 
NatF said:
It's not how much they won but how they played on their day.
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To win tournaments, especially slams, one has to play at a very high level for 7 rounds. Great someday players like Safin, Hewitt, Roddick, did not do that very often so cannot be considered all time great players. Federer, Nadal and Novak are all time great players. Murray has 3 slams which is more than Safin Hewitt and Roddick each have and has reached more finals than those 3, which puts him at a higher level than any player Roger had to face 03-07, except for Nadal on clay.
 
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