This post has been written just after the victory of Roger federer against Andy Murray in the Australian Open Final 2010.
God! Another federer victory at the championship finals. I am really fed up. Now you will be thinking why I hate federer. Well he is probably the greatest tennis player of the Open era, records glorying his feet. And yeah he has got most no. of grand slams (16 to be precise), has most no. of Wimbledon and most no. of consecutive US open, most no. of days at the top of the ranking and etc. etc.
But his perfection makes me dislike him( I might be jealous). He looks like a well oiled infallible machine, churning out heavy ground strokes and delightful one handed back hand shots at a boring repetition. There’s nothing fancy in his approach and personality but dull perfection brought by hard labor and some in born talent. Time after time he will produce an ace or a winner or make the opponent to commit an unforced error by his unforced error. After earning each point there would be a slight glance to his opponent saying “yeah! I am perfect!”. He seems to play each match as if he is destined to win.
Whom do you support when Australia plays England in cricket? I know England because you are tired watching the aussies win. Similarly I am tired of seeing federer win. I wanna see players rated underdogs overcoming odds and scripting fairytale victories. I wanna see guys commiting errors and then producing some miraculous shots to win. I want players showing emotions, pumping fists like a John McEnroe and Rafael Nadal or showing outburst like a Marat Safin. I wanna see colorful characters like Wilfred Tsonga, Patrick Rafter and Andre Agassi not someone like federer. I wanna see a Spaniard bull like approach running for each ball as his life depends on it wearing sleeveless Tees showing bulging muscles.
I had my hopes rested firmly on Nadal. Nadal is federer’s nemesis.
The following is a breakdown of their head-to-head results:
• All Matches: Nadal 13-7
• All Finals: Nadal 11–5
• Grand Slams: Nadal 6–2
• Grand Slam Finals: Nadal 5–2
• Masters Cup: Federer 2–0
• Masters Series: Nadal 6–3
• Masters Series Finals: Nadal 5–3
Nadal broke his 5 consecutive wimbledon’s dream, winning French open’s dream for a long time. He in fact humiliated him in the French open. But when everything seemed fine and federer was frustrated and almost on verge of retiring, Nadal got injured and to my horror federer came back.
I don’t consider federer is great till he conquers his nemesis Nadal as Bjorn Borg did to McEnroe, Sampras did to Agassi. When federer will conquer Nadal, then only I will say
“HAIL federer!!!”
Till then
“ I HATE federer”
n btw, i forgot to mention the best thing to watch in Federer's match----- Mirka Federer
