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Roger's Schedule for 2012
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Qatar Exxonmobil Open
01/02/2012 - 01/07/2012
City: Doha, QAT
Series: ATP 250
Surface: Hard, outdoor
Australian Open
01/16/2012 - 01/29/2012
City: Melbourne, AUS
Series: Grand Slam
Surface: Hard, outdoor
ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament
02/13/2012 - 02/19/2012
City: Rotterdam, NED
Series: ATP 500
Surface: Hard, Indoor
BNP Paribas Open Indian Wells
03/12/2012 - 03/18/2012
City: Indian Wells, USA
Series: ATP 1000
Surface: Hard, outdoor
Sony Ericsson Open
03/19/2012 - 04/01/2012
City: Miami, USA
Series: ATP 1000
Surface: Hard, outdoor
Mutua Madrid Open
05/07/2012 - 05/13/2012
City: Madrid, ESP
Series: ATP 1000
Surface: Clay, outdoor
Internazionali BNL d'Italia
05/14/2012 - 05/20/2012
City: Rome, ITA
Series: ATP 1000
Surface: Clay, outdoor
Roland Garros
05/28/2012 - 06/10/2012
City: Paris, FRA
Series: Grand Slam
Surface: Clay, outdoor
Gerry Weber Open
06/11/2012 - 06/17/2012
City: Halle, GER
Series: ATP 250
Surface: Grass, outdoor
Wimbledon
06/25/2012 - 07/08/2012
City: Wimbledon, GBR
Series: Grand Slam
Surface: Grass, outdoor
Olympic Games 2012
07/27/2012 - 08/05/2012
City: London, GBR
Series: Olympic Games
Surface: Grass, outdoor
Rogers Cup
08/06/2012 - 08/12/2012
City: Toronto, CAN
Series: ATP 1000
Surface: Hard, outdoor
Western & Southern Open
08/13/2012 - 08/19/2012
City: Cincinnati, USA
Series: ATP 1000
Surface: Hard, outdoor
US Open
08/27/2012 - 09/09/2012
City: New York, USA
Series: Grand Slam
Surface: Hard, outdoor
Shanghai Rolex Masters
10/08/2012 - 10/14/2012
City: Shanghai, CHN
Series: ATP 1000
Surface: Hard, Indoor
Swiss Indoors
10/22/2012 - 10/28/2012
City: Basel, SUI
Series: ATP 500
Surface: Hard, indoor
BNP Paribas Masters
10/29/2012 - 11/04/2012
City: Paris, FRA
Series: ATP 1000
Surface: Hard, Indoor
Barclays ATP World Tour Finals
11/05/2012 - 11/11/2012
City: London, GBR
Series: ATP World Tour Finals
Surface: Hard, Indoor
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Looks like a jam packed season ahead with Olympics figuring right after Wimbledon & WTF being pushed 2 weeks
ahead (So next year Fed has to defend his last 3 titles in 3 consecutive weeks)
I think 2012 will give realistic chance for federer to win another grand slam. Beyond that it will be really tough given the competition. I hope he wins one or two asap.
Today's match is his 1000th career match
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Federer hopes to master Indian Wells
Mar 5
8:06 AM ET
Any ATP pro ought to be deliriously happy with the kind of six months Roger Federer has had, but given that he's the all-time Grand Slam champ -- and a thorn in the side of the two men ranked above him (No. 1 Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal) -- the run he's had also puts him under a microscope as the two big U.S. hard courts (Indian Wells and Miami) unfold in the coming weeks.
That's how life is these days for the all-time Grand Slam singles champ. He's won 33 of his past 35 singles matches and carried off five singles titles -- including that of the 2011 ATP World Tour Finals. Not bad work for a guy who's over 30 and thus, at least theoretically, is going downhill.
With the win over Andy Murray in Dubai the other day, Federer has also beaten another member of the elite big four in the final of a single-elimination non-major tournament for the first time in well over a year (the previous time was 2010, when he got the better of Djokovic in Federer's home town of Basel, Switzerland).
Now he's got people wondering: Can he really surge and threaten the two men who have stolen his thunder for two years now, or has he pulled off this streak with smoke and mirrors, accessories provided by the fast indoor and outdoor courts on which he's flourished -- slick surfaces on which no Grand Slam events are played?
It's a fact that nobody, but nobody, can match Federer's versatility and shot-making prowess on courts at the fast end of the spectrum. Murray, who beat Djokovic in the semis at Dubai, conceded as much. Analyzing how Federer won the tight first set (the scores were 7-5, 6-4), the No. 4 player recalled a few critical Federer winners and told the press: "You get a lucky shot here or one great shot and you can break the set wide open. So I think that was the difference in the first set."
He added: "I think that the indoor season and the surfaces like this one, I mean, if there were more tournaments on these courts, I think [Federer] could definitely be No. 1 in the world for the next few years. It really suits his game well. Just so many of the courts are so slow now."
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Then Murray summed up Federer's dilemma neatly when he noted: "Indian Wells and Miami are going to be very, very different to here. Much slower court, which hopefully will suit my game a little bit better."
Last year, Federer made the semis at both of the upcoming Masters. At Indian Wells, he lost a close three-setter to Djokovic -- but remember it was before anyone, perhaps including Djokovic himself, understood just how glorious a run he was embarking on. At Miami, Federer played one of the worst matches of his career on a big stage, losing to Nadal 6-3, 6-2 in a listless, almost petulant performance.
Djokovic has good reason to be wary of Federer, especially if he can't muster the same form he had last year at this time. That's a real possibility, as we saw in his loss to Murray. And the last time I checked, Federer and Nadal are 5-5 on hard courts, although Nadal recently has carried the biggest days on outdoor hard courts (two wins at the Australian Open and the one in Miami in their past three meetings).
We don't really know much about Nadal's prospects; he hasn't played since he lost that Australian Open final to Djokovic. Federer, on the other hand, is an open book.
And after he won in Dubai, he said: "I think I was just confident. I was playing aggressive. I was focused. I didn't doubt my ability. I'm defending much better than maybe I was in the middle of last year, where I felt like I couldn't come out of tough defensive positions anymore."
If Federer's own assessment about his ability to transition from defense to offense is accurate, he may be a tough out in the upcoming Masters events.
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