Anyone watching this??
Mr. Hingis is mauling Federer.

$%^&
Another massive choke from Stepanek.
Federer squaks thru in three tie-breaks....

He lost so he choked?

Chetanpv....ssshhh!! :angry:

Yes - welcome to Chet-world.

It's a strange and disturbing place where all the players are apparently fantastically weak, but are also surefire certs to record straight sets wins over the 9 time slam champion who is about to clock up his third straight year as the best player on the planet, and break the record for the longest continuous spell at #1. It's a place where internet streaming feeds of live matches display in crystal clear HDTV clarity on gigantic televisions - but Chet still can't tell the difference between balls that are in and balls that are out.

I suppose we should make allowances for Chet though - after all he outed himself as a huge Federer fan before Roland Garros last year and declared him the GOAT. He turned into a troll soon after so it's no wonder he has a degree of mental confusion.

Surely this will be his 4th straight year as best player on the planet, 2004was pretty successful remember 3/4 slams...

Well let's present the FED opinion, i.e. the most important one as far we are concern ;) right? Well "Federer said today's clash served as a good basis for data collection ahead of the Australian Open.

"Playing such a long match gives me a lot of information for what I could do better, what's already in place.

"Concentration is the biggest factor, it's kind of tough to get into things entirely."

Details here

This is really the point: CONCENTRATION :yikes: . FED was not IMO CONCENTRATE on that match: He will be more CONCENTRATE in the next one, i.e. tomorrow when he will be playing Mr. Safin (Give us a great match Mrarat please :P ) and for sure he will be fully focus for the start of the AO.

BTW, concerning FED it is important (i.e. to motivate a bit our trolls roflmao ) to post the following remarks:

A. by Santoro:

"Federer is a more complete player, he has more variation," says Santoro.

SANTORO

B. By Tony Roche, who calls Federer the 'Complete Package', i.e.:

"I guess Roger is the complete package," he said of the defending Australian Open champion and winner of eight of the past 12 majors.

"He has a lot of strengths and one of them is the number of options he has available. Like Rod Laver, Roger has the ability to be in a dangerous situation and then get out of it by changing things up very quickly. Lew was virtually unbeatable when he was on fire, from what I've been told, and it's the same with Roger.

Indeed Roche added in that interview:

"When he played James Blake at the Masters (Tennis Masters Cup) in Shanghai, I've never seen anyone play tennis like that, ever. The score was something like love, three and four (6-0 6-3 6-4) and it could have been a lot easier. It was just the manner with which Roger played. He was hitting clean winners from ridiculous :yikes: places on the court. There were times when he should have been defending on some of the big points, but he had the ability to come up with unbelievable winners, and Blake wasn't playing that bad. There was some pretty scary :yikes: stuff out there."

Even now, Roche says Federer's split-second improvisation is the greatest piece of strokeplay he has ever seen.

"Geez, I've seen a lot :whistle: ," Roche said. "But that one I saw against Roddick was the best. Roger was virtually in the stands trying to get back a smash. I don't know how he did it, but he smashed it back for a winner. I just wish I'd been there to see it live. It's amazing. You can see it on the internet."

Roche was referring to this FED-AROD point

GREAT POINT

Roche's answers

Ciao :rolleyes:

TV.

There has been harsh crticism of the term "arrogant swiss" but can you please explain this response from Federer during the post-match interview?

Q. Deciding not to play Doha, does that make you more vulnerable

just in those very early rounds of the Australian Open?

A. Look, I'm most probably playing again on Rod Laver Arena. I play

so well on that court, and with my experience and the way

I finished the season and the way I'm coming into this, rested

and everything, I don't see really why I should be vulnerable

more than last year. I think it's going to be really tough for

people to beat me here. I'm going to make it as hard as

possible. Honestly, I don't think Doha plays any role this year.

Details here: http://www.aamiclassic.com.au/files/Federe...0Jan%202007.txt

A nice doctored post from you Chetanpv,what,did Sincere medicate you today?

Quite so, he should have said, "Yes, thing is I ate and drunk too much over Christmas and New Year and got badly out of shape so I am afraid I am winging it this year. Doha would have been too much and I did not want to be shown up there. I expect to be crushed in the first round. I'm lying awake sweating at the thought of possibly facing Alex Bogdanavic"

or maybe..." my goal this year is to remain in the top 8".

Great "My motivate the trolls" B) post is working roflmao I catch the big Troll straight away.. roflmao

Barry roflmao roflmao you are ready for the new season roflmao

tenez as well roflmao roflmao

I looked at the interview in total, and it seemed like Fed was being very honest and balanced in his comments. He also says:


Q. Given the battles you've had with him in the past, going forward, do you think he (Nadal) has the potential to be a real long-term top 10 player?

A. Yes, absolutely. I think he's improving on fast courts. For those who still haven't understood yet that he's still a good hardcourt player, or even grass, they should start to wake up. He's really improved a lot. I think he's a big favourite going into many events playing well, it's just that he's always come up against a guy who's just really playing well at the moment, since the French Open. I see him, you know, being very tough. I mean, people are saying: is his body going to hold up and everything? For the moment, I definitely think it will, you know.

Yeah, he's getting experienced, you know, he's going to be improving more and more, so he's not going to be easy to beat, so it's going to be tough.

Has Miss Hingis ever mauled Federer?

(lucky chap if she has)

Of course - my point was that he's about to chalk up three straight years in the #1 position (from memory he took the top ranking straight after the 2004 Australian Open), and will soon be making inroads into his 4th year in top spot.

Of course he was - it's just the classic troll tactic of trawling through everything Federer ever says or does, and pull out any phrase or action that you can rip out of context in order to serve their agenda of "proving" Federer's arrogance.

It's funny that Chet and co continually yearn for players to show more self-belief and confidence when facing Federer, but seem to have a strange objection to Federer himself showing any sign of his (richly justified) self-belief. Some might suggest that this makes the trolls total hypocrites... :whistle:

I fail to see any real sign of arrogance here. Fed is saying that he doesn't think not playing Doha is bad for his AO chances --- well, he would hardly have skipped it otherwise, would he?

Maybe he also admits he will be the favorite to win, and thinks that he will be hard to beat.

Modesty is a subtle thing. The guy has been on top of the game for three years; if he claimed that he wasn't the favorite to win it, wouldn't that taste a bit of false modesty? To me, there is sometimes a bit of that with Nadal, although that isn't meant as a criticism; I can relate quite well to that. But maybe if he remains near the top for a few years, Rafa will also lose a bit of his reluctance to admit that he's actually pretty good. :)

Anyway, Fed didn't say "there's nothing that can stop me at the AO", or "winning the AO will be a piece of cake to me, the other players are wussies" etc., so no, I don't think his remarks count as arrogant to me. (Compare this with Serena seeming to think it'll be easy to get back to #1 ... :wacko: )