last night .. it was really late .... and i happened to catch a match between federer and ancic on TV
it was re-run of the seminfinal of Rotterdam open
i had seem whole of last year federer play like a man possessed...i dont know if anyone shares my opinion ...
the way he was able to manufacture shots from nowhere ... in the hitherto mechanical world of men's tennis...
i went from admiration to furstration of seeing this brilliance too often..
and whole of australian open i was waiting for someone to beat fedrer and thank god someone did...
this match last night was again reminiscent of same federer form but was good to see ancic play his game in between federer's sparks of brilliance.
there were only superlatives galore from commentrators for both players....
what remains somehow imprinted in mind are federer backhand passing shots....
on one shot federer was forced wide on the backhand and he nailed the return shot deep in the tiny corner of ancic forehand....
that made me think that player of this class dont play only on the physical court..
but in their mind courts..... every shot's every variation is imprinted like code in programming
and they are out there just executing it...
the hours of coding... debugging .... testing... ..on practice courts..
for long i had the theory that federer sold his soul to devil for this amazing game in return..
now new twist.... maybe he is perfect tennis machine ..!!!!
only flaw in the theory is that he can cry at grand slams after winning...
