Game 5, Fed serving 2-2 same as the opening game of this set. Fed cruises to 40-0. Murray starts pounding FH returns continuously to break Fed.
Bye Fed....
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Game 5, Fed serving 2-2 same as the opening game of this set. Fed cruises to 40-0. Murray starts pounding FH returns continuously to break Fed.
Bye Fed....
Murray will serve for the set @ 5-4
Just about when Murray gets ready to serve it out, there are drops again in the court (little more than last time). Roof closing has been ordered. They are waiting.
Federer goes down to Murray 6-4 6-4....played easily his worst match of the tournament....
Nalla vela match paakala :|.
Never seen him serve this poorly...3 double faults in a row lan...:banghead:
Nelamai thirumba kavalaikidama poiruchae. I guess he just played this tournament to be in the race for year end # 1. Highlights thaan paathaen interested ah iruntha maariyae therla. Australia open kanavulam naanae adichi norukikiraen :(.
Whatever he has earned in Shanghai (360 points) is just a bonus.
Tough period start in another week, where he has to defend 3000 points in 3 weeks (Basel,Bercy & WTF)...
Fankly he looks set to lose atleast half of those points.. He may even drop to No.3 by the end of the year..
I don't think he is making any effort at all. May be he is not able to motivate enough to have a go.
Federer loses the finals of the Basel Open. A hard fought match though 4-6 7-6 6-7. Good win for Del Potro though.
Losing indoor hard court match against Delp reduced my hopes on world tour title :|.
Withdraws from Paris Masters..
Good decision. Anyway he cannot be year end # 1. At least he can aim for world tour title :D.
No chance of him being no. 1 at the end of the year with his withdrawal from the Paris Masters. Hopefully he plays well in the ATP tours finals. Eagerly waiting for that.
When points drop next monday before adding, Fed will have around 10965 points and Djokovic will have 11610 and his Paris points will be added.
Even if Fed wins 1500 in WTF.. his points will remain as 10965 only. So effectively Djok doesn't need to play/win matches to get to No.1.
He will be moving to No.1 next Monday and is guaranteed until AO,2013.
Thanks for the info there, Vinod n Karthik....
Roger with Fan's fav award (record 10th straight year) and Sportmanship award (7th time) ...
http://i49.tinypic.com/rjh5z7.png
Federer releases 2013 schedule.
http://www.rogerfederer.com/en/tenni...year/2013.html
Not playing in any tournaments before AO.
Not playing Miami where he has to defend 45 points and skipping Monte Carlo as usual which gives him 2 month break before Clay season.
Madrid until USO is intact. Playing Shanghai and Paris. Surprisingly missing Basel and WTF London.
Looks like he doesn't care about No.1 anymore and can still remain in Top 4 next year with this schedule.
"Basically I've given myself enough space," Federer said recently. "It's about just making sure you manage your schedule correctly.
"I have to make sure I create my schedule so it makes sense for my practice schedule. I need to practise a whole lot more next year, because this year, I hardly did have an opportunity to do that. I have some catching up to do in that standpoint."
http://www.thetennisspace.com/analys...dule-for-2013/
The reason he can do it is that he has accrued a number of exemptions over time, to the point where he is no longer required to commit to playing eight Masters 1000s, as the rest of the top players do. The ATP rules allow players to drop one Masters 1000 commitment according to the following criteria; when they have played more than 600 matches, spent 12 full years on Tour and are 31 or older on January 1 of the relevant year. When they fulfil all three, as Federer does, they have complete exemption.
Federer on track for another record
If Roger Federer wins in Melbourne that would make him the only man aside from Andre Agassi to have won 4 Australian Open trophies since the Open Era.
http://www.thehindu.com/sport/tennis...?homepage=true
Same applies to Djokovic.
I think the report is wrong....Fed already has 4 AO, he needs 1 more to become the first man to hold 5 AO trophies in open era, if he wins he will become the first to win AO, Wimbledon and US Open atleast 5 times
Looks like a rough draw for Roger....
1R - Paire
2R - Davydenko
3R - Tomic
4R - Raonic
QF - Tsonga
SF - Murray
F - Nole
Would be happy if he can keep his SF run going at AO (tough ask though)
All excited about this year's AO. Only blip is Nadal's unavailability. But coming to Federer. Will be happy if he reaches the SF. From there no, I guess it will be 'a better man on the day' kind off win'.
Federer beats Davydenko (6-3, 6-4, 6-4) at the Australian Open
http://www.thehindu.com/sport/tennis...?homepage=true
Roger takes on local boy Tomic in the much hyped 3R match tommorrow.
Should be a good match with the recent form of Tomic.
Good win for Federer. A really good comeback in the 2nd set tie breaker I would think, being 3-5 down. The third set was then just a mere formality
Professor FEDERER
http://www.australianopen.com/en_AU/...588649262.html
Some good pics in there!!.
Omega, You've been watching the matches right?. What do you feel?. Vinod???
Will never miss Roger in action!!!
He is looking good, serving at a high % so far. Will get tougher as he gets deeper though.
Things can change very quickly with Roger when his first serve % drops with better returners in the wings.
Will be happy if he reaches final...
Nole looks scary good!!
Federer beats Raonic 6-4, 7-6 (7-4), 6-2.
Couldn't catch Roger's first 3R matches. Watched full match today. Not a good match. No big rallies. Roger looks fresh and had very good control on his first serves. Mathapadi inniku match la irunthu vera yethuvum perusa illa :).
Like Roger with inner T. He looks damn cool :).
Great picture there Stan :smokesmirk:.
35th Grand slam Quarters in a row...WAG :bow: :bow:
Wow!! Tsonga played real high quality match without losing focus for the most part. His thunderous serve along with heavy ground strokes on both wings were just amazing. He was the one mostly bossing around the rallies except the initial part of 1st set, both the tie-breakers & 5th set. No wonder Tsonga looked very relaxed despite the close loss he had. He had a terrific match for sure.
What can we say about Roger? Despite having a very poor 1st serve % (< 50%) for the first 2 sets he raised his game enough to grab the 1st set. He moved well & stayed with Tsonga for the most part. In the end both had won 27 games a piece with Roger winning just 5 points more than Tsonga on the whole (169 vs 164 I guess). Tsonga had 20 aces to 6 by Roger.
During the 4th set when Tsonga was absolutely dominating, Eurosport commentators (Mats Wilander & Simon Reed) started their usual stuff that Roger struggles against the top 10 of this era unlike the likes of Hewitt, Roddick etc whom he used to absolutely dominate. Just can’t understand their logic at all. Here is a guy who is 31 years old still pushing guys who are 5-6 years younger than him to the brink & losing to them only because of his age factor (whenever he loses) & still they indirectly have to say that Roger dominated only the weak era. Lets wait until pushers of this era become above 30 to see where they’ll be…These morons will never change!!!