Security did an abysmal job with that guy. He ran all the way down the stands, got on the court and was next to Roger with that stupid flag for a good 8-10 seconds.. He could have attacked Roger, and injured him. The idiots in charge of security should all be fired..
And Fed officially The GOAT now!!
wtf
So happy for a great champion. I loved when that lone tear ran down his left cheek as they played his national anthem.
Viva La Fed!!!
If anyone deserves this, it's Federer.
Sampras deserved it also
How so? He was a terrible clay court player. Never made a final and was out in the early RDs year after year. Fed has been the 2nd best Clay Courter in the world, losing only to probably the best clay courter of all time in Nadal..
actually he went to the SF in 1996 with 2 or 3 five-sets games, he was tired against kafelnikov.
And Fed was in the final 4 years in a row, there is no denying who the better clay court player is..
Sampras wasn't even close to being the clay court player Federer has been. You can definitely make the case that if not for Nadal, Federer would have won the French Open at least 2-3 times by now. You definitely cannot make any argument that would make you say Sampras could have won the French 2-3 times. He only reached the semi's there once. Federer has reached the FINALS at the French 4 times.
No doubt Fed is much clay court player than Sampras but at Sampras time there were more clay court players specialists than today, Sampras had to deal with Agassi, Bruguera, Courier, Muster, Kafel, Gustavo K, Moya...
I just think that for his whole carreer and achievements it would have been nice. On top of that it would have been nice to see a pure service and volley player winning the French open.
He is a good one, man was a of a clay court player, the best one the French had seen in a long time before Nadal came along. But i think the overall argument against Fed in terms of compe on is not fair. He steamrolled Agassi towards the end of his run and Andre was ten times the player at 34 that he was at 24. He took out Samparas en route to his first Wimbledown crown, and Pete had enough left to still take the Open Crown and retire on top soon after. Some of the other guys in that era, Courier, Chang, Rafter, Kafelnikov, and the others mentioned, none of those guys would be serious threats to Roger IMO, especially on the grass and Hard courts.. Agassi said this about Fed after the US open final loss
"He's the best I've ever played against," Agassi said after falling to Federer 6-3, 2-6, 7-6 (1), 6-1 on Sunday in the U.S. Open final. "Pete was great. No question. But there was a place to get to with Pete. You knew what you had to do. If you do it, it could be on your terms. There's no such place like that with Roger"
I think even if it's totally uncheckable Moya, Muster, Bruguera would give a lot of headache to Roger.
Anyway IMO we can safely say now that Fed is the greatest tennis player ever, he became the equivalent of MJ, Shum etc... If I were him I would spend the rest of my career to try to achieve the Grand Slam the 4 in a row.
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