and adding six more feathers to his cap :p :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by ajithfederer
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and adding six more feathers to his cap :p :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by ajithfederer
AF, idhellam enakku nalla sign-a thONala. ivLO record paNNa iyarakaike thAngadhunnu, destiny kaalai vaarida povudhu - konjam adakkiye vaasippom. Indha Tommy Haassan vera sema form-la irukkaan - Federer "Hey! Tom!"-nu last words sollaama irundha sari...
Plum and kb
These were not my words. I just copy pasted from a member's post in orkut and hence the web link there. Yes i also don'tlike to count the chickens before they are hatched and it is indeed a very tough match for federer tomorrow.
Federer's record collection keeps growing
Friday, 3 July 2009
Written by Kate Battersby
Photo Titled Federer strikesFederer strikes
©Getty Images / H. Blair
You have to hope that Roger Federer’s opponents don’t decide that the perfect piece of pre-match preparation is a quick glance at his career statistics. Tommy Haas would have had cause to feel distinctly queasy had he taken a look at them before his semi-final at Wimbledon this afternoon. And chances are he is feeling worse than ever now.
It will be scant consolation to Haas that he will return to the top 20 in the world with his first appearance in the last four at Wimbledon. Today he won the toss, and very little else. Federer triumphed 7-6 (7-3), 7-5, 6-3 and now has the chance on Sunday to regain simultaneously the two professional possessions he holds most dear – his Wimbledon crown and the world number one spot, both surrendered to Rafael Nadal within a six-week period last summer.
How about those statistics then? Future opponents, look away now. This was a record 21st consecutive Grand Slam semi-final for Federer. Think of it this way – that’s more than five years gone by since the last time he failed to make the last four, at Roland Garros in 2004. With victory over Haas, Federer maintained his agreeable habit of never losing a Wimbledon semi-final – and as a result he is not only the first player to reach seven straight finals in SW19 since the Challenge Round was abolished in 1922, but also the first player to make 20 Grand Slam finals.
It also means he has made 16 of the past 17 Slam finals, and on Sunday will bid not only for his sixth Wimbledon crown but for a record 15 Grand Slam titles. Want some more? Today’s victory was his 50th – count ’em – match triumph at Wimbledon. With 18 wins in a row, he is stringing together his longest streak since the summer of 2007. And, remember, all this is at a time when Federer is perceived as professionally vulnerable. All of us should be so vulnerable.
The point should be made that by no means did 31-year-old Haas fold today. But because of his age and the time he had already spent on court throughout the tournament, it was clear from the outset that he needed the first set. In his favour, he had nothing to lose. But although this set was to go all the way to the tiebreak, Federer looked worryingly comfortable from the start.
From the Royal Box such Grand Slam legends as Rod Laver and Bjorn Borg watched under overcast skies, with temperatures a little cooler than recent scorching days. Federer, as ever, looked gracefully fresh, immune to any kind of weather and, as it turned out, immune to any threat posed by his opponent’s game.
But those who were expecting a simple straight sets Federer victory found that Haas was serving well enough to stay with the legend throughout the first set. As ever the German wore his heart on his sleeve, bellowing with frustration when half-chances escaped him, visibly irritated and cursing himself in his native tongue at other times.
Federer finished off the match with a slam-dunk smash reminiscent of Pete Sampras
In the relatives’ box he was well-matched by his fiancée Sarah Foster, who never hesitated to display abject disgust or wild support for her betrothed at any given moment, especially in the first set tiebreak. Not for her the calm of Federer’s pregnant wife Mirka one row in front. Federer himself, of course, betrayed nothing but elegant composure – although when he clinched that opening set with his first set point opportunity, he permitted himself the smallest affirmation of a clenched fist and the imperative of: “Come on.” But it was a gesture made entirely to himself, not an exhibition of outward aggression.
It is seven years since Haas was ranked number two in the world but, nonetheless, thanks to his pre-Wimbledon tournament victory at Halle he came into this encounter on a 10-match winning streak, equalling the longest of his career. But before today he trailed Federer 9-2 in their career jousts, and the German had to look back to the Australian Open of 2002, when he was in his pomp, for the last time he notched up a victory. Two five-setters were the most he had managed against Federer since.
Five sets never looked likely today, although it was late in the second set before Federer got a break point. The bad news for Haas was that it was a set point too. He saved that one, and another, but Federer’s weapons were just too many and too varied for the German to live with. The Swiss produced an acutely angled crosscourt forehand for his third set point, and when Haas put a forehand long he could only smile ironically to himself as he trudged back to his chair.
In fact, it seemed the only misjudgement Federer made throughout the match was on the matter of HawkEye – four times he challenged, and four times he was wrong. But his last service game of the match, like so much of his tennis, was faultless. He finished off the match with a slam-dunk smash reminiscent of Pete Sampras, one of the few players still to hold a record Federer has yet to break. But as that record is seven Wimbledon titles, the best advice is ... give it time.
http://www.wimbledon.org/en_GB/news/...624090843.html
congratulations to feddy for breaking Sampras's record :thumbsup: .....
thanks to Nadal for delaying the inevitable by 2-3 yrs........i must say Feddy breaking sampras's record is going to haunt me whenever i see tennis from now......i might as well bid farewell to watching tennis.....
//green park-la room pottu azhanum//
//andy murray in finals would have been interesting.....andy roddick ellam ennaikku jeichhurukkaan.....most fav whip boy of feddy.....//
Wimbledon 2009: Is Roger Federer the greatest ever?
It is fitting that Roger Federer can cement his place at Wimbledon as the all-time tennis great with a record 15th grand slam win.
By Kevin Garside
Published: 6:55PM BST 03 Jul 2009
No 1? Will Roger Federer become the first man to win 15 grand slam titles? Photo: REUTERS
An early impression of these championships sees a long-haired Romanian with improbable flair and a refined sense of showmanship flinging himself hither and thither, flicking the ball between his legs and handing his racket to old ladies and ball boys imploring them to have a go. His defeat to the upright, utilitarian Stan Smith in the Wimbledon final 27 years ago was the death of magic in the eyes of one young boy.
The match, Gone With The Wind set out across five epic sets, was regarded as one of, if not the best the Championships had seen; how that accolade moves around. Nastase was irresistible, not least because he didn’t have a moustache and he wasn’t Australian, a nation whose champions dominated at the dawn of the Open era; Rod Laver, John Newcombe, Tony Roche and Ken Rosewall. They spoke our language. They drank our beer. Nastase did none of these things. He brought mystery to the court.
Then in a rush came Jimmy Connors, Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe followed by Boris Becker, Ivan Lendl and Stefan Edberg, followed by Pete Sampras, Andre Agassi and Goran Ivanisevic. This is just a personal recollection. Others might volunteer great players from a deeper past; Lew Hoad, Fred Perry, Bill Tilden, Rene Lacoste.
What kind of player might be regarded greater than all the hall-of-famers above? Who is the man to head a roll-call spreading across a game that has been global 100 years? Is it fair to ask it of anyone to prove himself superior in all facets of the game? Yet this is what a player must do if he is to be regarded the best of all time. This is the claim made by many on behalf of the Swiss maestro in Sunday’s final. We are on the point of witnessing a landmark in the sport. None has 15 grand slam titles against his name. Statistically at least Roger Federer fills out the greatest criteria.
Though Federer won the Wimbledon junior championship 11 years ago, few saw in that victory the future that was to come. In the past 30 years only Pat Cash and Edberg have converted junior success into senior glory. Then three years later, while still in his teens, Federer buried the legend of Pete Sampras on Centre Court ending an unbeaten run of 31 matches. It was Federer’s maiden appearance in the house to which he would himself claim squatters rights. He lost to Tim Henman in the next round. It was 2001, the year that Henman ran into 'good’ Goran and bad weather. It was the year that Federer marked our cards.
Twenty-one consecutive grand slam semi-finals and 14 major titles are the numbers that speak for Federer today. But statistics are only part of Federer’s story. The elements that elevate him still further are aesthetic and ethical. He thrills on three fronts by winning, by doing so gracefully and with elegance and style. And the clincher; he has won on all decks.
In this the age of the two-handed backhand, the baseline slog, of biceps, of grunt and sleeveless shirts, Federer says no to all that. He eschews the dark side. He is every mother’s son, head boy in the tennis academy, a stainless charmer, modestly turned out, fair in manner and deed. And when he lets that backhand go we swoon.
His command of the tennis canon, his technical mastery, provides him with the material tools to win. The brain of a surgeon married to a gladiator’s spirit complete the kit. As 'nice’ as he appears, there is no sentiment attached to the kill. The dispatch is often brutally quick.
Afterwards he rarely speaks a bad word where a good one will do. There was little to compliment in the performance of Ivo Karlovic in the quarter-final. The lumbering Croat is serve dependent. Beyond that withering bullet there is little to his game. So Federer heaped praise on the pretty motion that aced him 23 times.
When he loses he does so without exception to the better man. To come second in a Wimbledon final classified as the best of all time, losing a title he had held for five years and his No 1 ranking with it to his greatest rival must have wrung his soul dry. Yet Federer stepped aside without fuss, extending his hand to Nadal while dying inside. Both had given every fibre. Neither deserved to lose.
Nadal took the greatest prize in tennis, but Federer gained in defeat. He showed us that losing, though painful, is not necessarily failure. How can it be if you have given all you have, left nothing in the locker. None can point the finger. Federer had met his match. He could not have done more. In circumstances such as there is, nothing for it but to acknowledge the better man and come back another day. Federer did this, and in doing so he acquired immortality.
On Sunday there is history to write. He has spent the fortnight in the shadow of Andy Murray, a willing warm-up act on Centre Court before the BBC went prime time. Murray is a great British story. Federer’s tale is greater than that. It transcends national interest. He is a global phenomenon the like of which we might never see again in tennis.
Poor Tommy Haas has spent a career with his nose against the window pain of high achievement looking on at the likes of Federer, wondering what he had to do to join him on the other side. This being his 32nd year he had considered leaving the racket at home and trying something else, modelling perhaps, or playing exotic aristos from a distant land in low level American soaps. One more go he said.
In Paris he drew Federer in the year he would break his grand-slam duck at Roland Garros. Despite a two-set lead, Haas’s fate was to become a footnote in Federer’s run to a 14th slam. Here, where Federer has won five times, where all his superhero efforts are trained on setting a unique benchmark in the game, Haas met him again.
Now it is Roddick’s get rid of this line for online turn, poor lad. There is only one who can look Federer in the eye and he is holed up beneath the Majorcan sun nursing a broken family and crumbling knees. The separation of Nadal’s parents coincided with the kind of career-threatening injury Federer has managed to avoid. Who knows when Nadal will return and for how long?
Federer’s run at the top of the game is as much an act of will as physical perseverance. His reliance on timing rather than power puts marginally less stress on his bones, but there is no let up between the ears. It takes a singular soul to dog it out on the circuit year after year, living out of suitcases, hitting balls day after day, hour after hour.
And to pull it off without a hint of controversy, never once missing a bus, or kicking the car door of a teenage girl, or abusing a police officer outside a nightclub in the small hours. Federer’s idea of rebellion is to marry the girl next door and start a family.
It would have been quite a day had Murray made it to the final. Perhaps it is better he didn’t. Let Roddick be grand slam victim No 15. Murray was that man nine months ago in New York. The experience made him a better player, but not yet good enough. For anyone born beyond Britain’s shores, this year’s tournament has always been about Federer, about the first to shoot for 15 grand slam titles, about the best there has been. Sorry Ilie.
Maddy,
Adhula paarunga :lol: :).
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Originally Posted by ajithfederer
Maddy, dont worry. Roddick might aappu vechufy Federer fans today.
And Nadal will be back anyway, and once he comes back, Fed-ku oru vengala kiNnam kooda kedaikkadu :-(
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