Federer's problems

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There is now little dispute in the tennis community that Roger 'shanky' Federer won his titles in a weak era. If the likes of Nalbandian and Safin had fulfilled their potential, then we would no doubt had many classic finals and Roger would have 'deserved all he got'. However unfortunatly for Roger (and he knows this) he won his titles facing one dimensional lightweights. This of course does not automatically diminish Roger's brilliance (he can only play what's in front of him) but it means he can not be accuratly compared with past and future greats. To put further doubts into his claims for greatness are his is seemingly mental problems when a genuine challenge is presented. It is my opinion that Federer's overweening vanity causes him to collapse when facing adversity. Australian 2009, Us open 2009 and his dismal record against Raphael Nadull support this hypothesis. Why is he so bad at taking breaking points? Even on Sunday, he had to rely on rare rafa shanks to convert break points. He always looking vunerable the game after. His arms tightening as he struggles to come to terms with the fact he's not facing Roddick. In conclusion, is it time for the tennis world to consider asterixing those slam titles they deem unworthy of top class tennis?

It is interesting that you mention Phil Jackson as a LA Laker fan I love Phil. The guy holds the record for most Nba championships as a coach at 11 titles as a head coach, 1 as an assitant, and 2 as a player. His philosphy seems to be to work on the psychology of the player so that the player can during a game figure it out for himself.

Uncle toni obviously has that close bond of family that makes his and Rafa's relationship special, but his idea to turn Rafa into a lefty was truely genius. Not to mention that forehand of his completely different than any forehand that was on tour before. It is clear that family relationship or not he really had a game plan from day one and stuck to it.

socal1976 wrote:Not to mention that forehand of his completely different than any forehand that was on tour before.

It is modeled quite a bit after Borg. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQjzRGvaP0A&playnext=1&list=PL0DEAD7352F4B4AED

Haase is another example of the being a lefty, but playing with the right hand. There are other examples as well.

Edit: Forgot this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVAxgw1WVts&feature=fvsr