Monday, August 18, 2014

Roger that!


Sixteen years after he turned Pro he is still the best the game has seen.

Thirteen years after winning that epic 5 setter against his idol, the the last man standing in ATP Pro Tennis tour is still him!

He just won Cincinnati Masters for a record 6th time in six finals...has already played in six finals in 2014 alone, won two and came very close to winning Wimbledon (lost it by just ONE bad service game), all at the ripe old tennis age of 33 while still ranked Nr. 3 in the world! 

Compared to him, the top 2 lads are not that consistent and it shows tellingly in the win-loss numbers for the year:

World Nr. 1  - Novak Djokovic - Won 39 matches, Lost 6
World Nr. 2 - Rafael Nadal - Won 44 Lost 8
World Nr. 3 - Roger Federer - Won 49 Lost 9

Tennis journalists going ballistic about his decline every year for the past seven years since that EPIC 2008 Wimbledon Final have been forced to eat their own words time and again by the sheer endurance and timeless brilliance of this artist among the ball clubbing retrievers of the ever changing game. In fact, he has been answering them all along by silently slicing and dicing them in the courts all over the world, with a zen-like attitude. 

After 17 Grand Slams and 80 career titles he still loves the game enough to reinvent himself by bringing back the Serve and Volley approach to the game! 

Tennis will rejoice as long as he plays regardless of whether he wins US Open for the record umpteenth time this year or not!

Viel Glueck, Roger! 

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