Fed Fans – Roger Federer Talk
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Yes, they parted amicably. Edberg was at Wiimbledon last year sitting on Roger's box as well. Edberg initially agreed to do 1 year with Federer and extended it to 2 years because he had a good time. He wasn't interested in continuing beyond that and doing more traveling. Unlike a lot of ex-players he has a business to consider. He has a financial company in Sweden that IIRC has a branch in London. He said if anybody other than Roger had asked him to coach he'd have said no. He just thought it would be a fun, cool thing to do for a while.
He hasn't withdrawn yet... I guess we'll hear very soon one way or the other.
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No official word yet. It looks like, he may surprise us all by choosing to play there.
It might become too much for Roger to play 3 big events back-to-back. But again, probably he is feeling very young and thinks he can pull it off.
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Enjoyed the podcast. As for Roger playing in Canada, I don't see why not. I think Cincinnati is faster and one he prefers, but he may want to get sufficient hard court time before New York. He could play a bit and get used to the muggy conditions in North America this time of year.
The other day I saw a 2014 interview - just after Toronto - when he played both Toronto and Cinci - and he said that by playing both tourneys he wouldn't need to practice as much in the week before the US Open and could take most of the week off. Maybe that'll be his strategy this year as well.
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And look how that went for him. Played a stinker against Monfils and got blasted off the court next match by Juicic aka Cilic.
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I can't even understand how this can be a discussion. He only needs one tournament to get back in the swing. That's Cinci. The priority has to be winning in Flushing. #1 can go rot until that's secured. There'll be plenty enough tournaments to achieve that after
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Exactly, and that was already 3 years ago, only figures to be worse now if he does well at both MS events before the USO. If he wins USO he will finish #1, let's get that straight. Even if Rafa gains a bunch more points at the MS events and is still 500-1,000 points ahead after USO that would make Roger the heavy favorite to finish #1. But no reason to worry about anything except proper prep for USO.
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Sorry guys, you´re missing the point. First, back to 2014, he wasn´t tired against Monfils. He played like sh!t and THEN got tired. If he had faced Cilic that day he would have lost in straights exactly as he did in the semi, which, ok, was made even worst probably given the five setter, but still... He was playing anywhere near his best in that tournament and that is the main reason he was stopped in the semi.
Cincinnati is faster than USO and it is not exactly the best possible warm up. Besides, there he could draw a big server in the early stages and in that case accidents happen -- and this way he would end up with almost no match play before the USO.
What I think all you guys are missing is that if Canada is taxing, he can always withdraw from Cincinnati. By playing Canada he can control much better how many matches he plays before USO.
Cincinnati is faster than USO and it is not exactly the best possible warm up. Besides, there he could draw a big server in the early stages and in that case accidents happen -- and this way he would end up with almost no match play before the USO.
What I think all you guys are missing is that if Canada is taxing, he can always withdraw from Cincinnati. By playing Canada he can control much better how many matches he plays before USO.
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I don't think match practice is that important here, even if he loses after a few matches in Cincy I think he'd be alright. Much different scenario to grass this year when he hadn't played for over 2 months. Who knows if playing a lot before USO 2014 affected him in that Monfils match. He certainly looked lethargic and played bad but that can happen at age 33 regardless of fatigue.
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That makes no sense to me. It's far more important for Roger to get back into winning mode and building up confidence than trying to match surface speeds. He can get used to the surface at Flushing after winning Cinci. Overplaying makes no sense whatsoever. His objective has got to be winning Flushing, and having to travel around, double his media commitments etc is the best way to ruin everything
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I'm going to refrain from any further comment on this, as it should be abundantly clear to all of us here that Roger knows what is best for him. I think this year is proof positive of this. So, I agree with whatever he does.
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Let´s agree to disagree, Federeberg. The guy is on winning mode -- he does not need to get back to it. And if I would try to find overplay somewhere in his schedule, the closest thing to it IMO is a warm up tournament that does not match perfectly the surface of the following major.
Anyway, I do not think that -- depending on the circumstances -- the two tournaments combined are definitely overplay. People keep saying that Federer has a "younger body" than Nadal and Djokovic -- well, Nadal just cruised on RG after playing four straight tournaments (not reaching the final in just one) on clay, which is harder than the HC´s of Canada/Cincy/USO. Why Federer would not be able to play just half of what Nadal did? Anyway, we all know each other´s opinions so let´s move on.
Anyway, I do not think that -- depending on the circumstances -- the two tournaments combined are definitely overplay. People keep saying that Federer has a "younger body" than Nadal and Djokovic -- well, Nadal just cruised on RG after playing four straight tournaments (not reaching the final in just one) on clay, which is harder than the HC´s of Canada/Cincy/USO. Why Federer would not be able to play just half of what Nadal did? Anyway, we all know each other´s opinions so let´s move on.
LOL! Sure, get into semantics... I was just giving insight to his reasoning IF he does play. It's Tuesday and he hasn't confirmed, so I'm inclined to think he's going to skip it. There were pap photos of him in Italy on vacation with his family last week so at least he's well rested...
To be honest my thinking was that he loves the tourney in Cinci and would love to win it for an 8th time and could use Montreal for MAATCH play practice. So if he loses early in Montreal - no big deal, at least he's gotten in a match before the tourney he really does want to win. Kind of like Stuttgart turned out to be not such a big deal because it was Halle he really wanted to win.
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