Federer plays Roddick tonight

Originally Posted by Gander

I agree with both your posts (Pgard and Samarta). I wasnt privileged to remember Borg, I grew up watching guys like Becker, Edberg, Sampras and Agassi, all who I thought were excellent. But all of them had notable weaknesses with 1 or 2 big weapons. Agassi had the return of serve, Edberg had a beautiful net game, Sampras the huge serve and forehand and Becker the backhand and agility.

What Federer has is...all of the above. He secretly has a wonderful serve which he hardly gets any credit for because for people like Roddick thats all they have. He gets no credit for his agility because Nadal steals his thunder there.

The guy has it ALL. Hes the best I have ever seen and right now no question is even more dominant than Tiger Woods.

I think mainly the guy is such a gentleman that he is underappreciated. Its almost like you got to be some sort of a-hole (see McEnroe, Nastasi). McEnroe had a great serve. His placement was outstanding without tremendous velocity. He would vary his serve constantly just like a pitcher. It was beautiful. Federer has the best ground strokes ever. He plays wonderful games with his ground strokes... hard, soft, overspin, underspin,short, deep, he keeps opponents off balance because he basically can do anything with the ball.
But anyone can have a bad day. He is just so much better that he has got to have a really bad day and his opponent must be at a peak.