WOW !! LUV them ball kids. You can replace all those lines people with Hi Tech, but the ball kids will remain forever.

WOW!! That's amazing my friend

He’s my goat 🐐

Wow amazing to hear. i watch tennis since 2005. But without fed some magic is lost. I know he mostly lost all his records. But what you never can take from him is. He was the first men to get 20 gs titles

@@alexanderwinzer2602 his 20 gs was against a lot tougher opponents that dojo won with. he transitioned the transition of technology. think about it, he was winning against agassi and sampras. and he beat all the gen after them. tennis technology was different back then. he adopted to a change in surface that was advantageous to his game. he beat the next gen consistently. and he was still beating the current gen when his body finally gave in. if that is not amazing, I don't know what is.

Cam Norrie.

Sharapova's legs?

@@haveatyou1 if we are talking legs Steffi Graf by miles😄❤️

​@@Bill_Stranixlol...he looks stiff and uncoordinated. I assume that was a joke. Lol

Same, there's some shots that only someone as creative as him would ever go for...and make it work. Alcaraz shows it in flashes

Fed is the deva of tennis. There will never be another like him. You can count all sorts of statistics... none of that matters... all you need are your eyes to see that no-one has ever played the game as well as him.

This 20 min video is more entertaining than full matches of today's players.

You are so right the sport of tennis misses the G O AT namely Roger Federer.

​@@noeldacosta7621I would go as far as saying that Roger has played tennis beautifully for many years .

He is definitely not gracious in defeat. Like every time he gets destroyed by Novak.

This is the key point. Orchestrating and executing winners is teaching tennis its own potential. Outlasting opponents is great but not worthy of the title greatest tennis player. Maybe greatest athlete.

Agreed - it basically ended when he switched to Uniqlo or even Indian Wells 2018 final. I think if he wins that match he continues at least through 2019

​@@gamejester.biggest tegret is one in 2019.. we all know, in second half of 2018 he had a wrist injury, then in 2020 knees came back

i dont think Fed played in 2018 even in AO as good as he was in 2017.

@@Saskobest yeah definitely a case of competition being weaker in 2018 so he still made it happen. really the peak "neo" magic, in my mind, was 2017 AO to the sunshine double. after that, he kinda just resumed his regular level. the hesitation in his backhand crept back in, and he constructed his points around the slice much more than the drive backhand. but 2017 AO through the sunshine double, he was stylistically different due to having unmatched confidence in his drive backhand.

Although Zverev beat him 4-3 in the head to head

Alcaraz seems to have developed a very similar slice/drop shot. Closest one I’ve seen at least

Zverev with the 4-3 head-to-head win on Federer....

to be fair consistency has always been the key for top players, it just isn't anymore. Even players that were not winning slams were consistend in the 2000s. Players like Berdych and Ferrer for example, were in top 10 for many many years without fumbling, even Tsonga who was a bit less consistent, was still playing well for the majority of the year. Honestly dunno what the problem is for players if this decade. They probably just have too many useless things inside their head.

​@@luigimanzelli3786 Lol 2000s were the era of most inconsistent players ever. Top players like Hewitt, Roddick, Safin would often lose in 1st or 2nd rounds of grand slams against nobodies.

@@Milan1988Z i don't think you remember tennis very well.... those player might have lost sometimes, sure, but they still retained their spot in the rankings consistently for many years, thing that doesn't happen anymore these days. clear examples include Tsitsipas, Berrettini, Aliassime. The top 10 is always changing, in the 2000s the top 10 was always pretty much the same.

@@luigimanzelli3786 In first 3 years of 2000s (2001-2003) 17 different players qualified for the ATP finals tournamnet (being in top 8) In next 3 years (2004-2006) there were 15 different players. In first 3 years of the 2020s (2021-2023) there were 14 different players. So even in that regard things are more stable now. Players like Medvedev, Rublev, Zverev are very consistently in top places. (not to mention Djokovic, Alcaraz and now SInner) Players dropping in or out of top 10 due to injuries or bad form has always happened, that's normal in tennis.

Tsitsipas is not bam bam bam !

But of course most Federer fans would never admit it because they would have to admit the other guy was better.

​@@huzcer younger mate, younger

@@Agent-bh9tk so wait Federer could beat Nadal off clay all those times in a row from 2014 and Nadal was younger. So it wasn't an advantage there for Nadal being younger (who is less than a year older than Djokovic). But it was when facing Djokoivc it was the big factor.... So interesting.. But let's look at it.. . Djokovic was beating 26 year OLD Federer at the Australian Open. Federer could never beat Djokovic at the Australian open again. Fed won 1 set TOTAL in 4 matches Djokovic beats just turned 29 year OLD Federer at the US open in 2010. Federer could never beat Djokovic at the US open again. Whenever Djokovic first beat Federer at a slam Federer could NEVER beat Djokovic there again.. Federer's last ever slam match win against Djokovic was when Federer was still only 30 in 2012 Federer was owned at the slams long before he was "OLD". Federer didn't retire for more than another 10 years

@@huzcer it is quite simple. Nadal is not on Novak and Federer level on grass and hard. Novak prime was not as good as Fed, but he was younger. Another factor was his psychical strengh. Yup, in this he is greatest. I like Djoko, good Serbian man, i enjoyeed that he got the slam rekord, but he is not the greatest tennis player.

@@Agent-bh9tk He is definitely not the greatest. Nor is he a great champion or ambassador for the sport and role model for the younger generations ON court. Off court he is awesome but the way he treats his team, fans and behaves in a match is an utter disappointment, just for that he cannot be labelled as the greatest. He is the stats king, he needed that or no one would ever remember him.

What about Nalbandian or Marcelo Ríos ?

Doubtful. He's 42 now. He could definitely hold his own still, but he wouldn't be the dominant force he once was. I'm a huge Fed fan btw

agreed! fast court tennis is a tougher skill as it requires faster reactions and rewards aggressive tennis which is more high risk requiring no room for error

Djokovic with the 3 - ZERO record on Federer in the final title matches of the ATP Finals - players usually complaining they are too fast those courts. Same 3- Zero as at Wimbledon title finals. Federer lost to David "0 masters titles" Goffin in the ATP Finals semi with a lay-up final vs flaky Dimitrov waiting. Djokovic at an older age beat Alcaraz and Sinner back to back for the the ATP Finals title for a record 7th win. Sinner would chew up and spit out 2017 Goffin for breakfast. And of course talking about Zverev, he beat Federer 4-3 in the head to head including beating Federer at Halle, Shanghai, ATP Finals... Halle was truly the land of pigeons for Federer - across his 10 titles he beat a grand total of 1 single Top 10 ranked player. Bublik beat 2 Top 10 players on his way to the title in 2023 😂

Yeah I'm sure Federer, the most popular and well liked tennis player in history, is the reason they changed balls and court speeds, because....??? The slowing down and homogenization of the sufaces, as well as adopting heavier balls, started before anybody gave a shit about Federer.

@@hehehehehahahaha2025 And it's an absolute fact that Federer couldn't even make it past a 1/4 final at Wimbledon UNTIL AFTER IT WAS SLOWED DOWN.

​@@gamejester.Take a look at Roger's wonderful movement and foot work .Wonderful to see again.

RIP? As far as I know, the man is alive and in good health? He just retired.

Did Federer die 8 days ago when you posted this comment?

No problem at all buddy! If it was out, it would have been a second serve, which is easier to return than Zverev's rocket first serves.

@@WivoRNWhat confuses me is that the ump had already called it out(fault),that's why the play was stopped right? So by challenging the fault/out call, isn't Federer basically saying it should be in? Zverev was already going to do a 2nd serve regardless. Is there something I'm missing?

Sorry I didn't catch it too. It was Zverev who challenged not Roger!

5 minutes after winning Wimbledon in 2023 Alcaraz was caught joking in Spanish with the actual King Philip of Spain about serving out the match “I was thinking in when Federer had 40-15 against Novak. Please this can’t happen to me”. Federer is truly an inspiration.

Yeah

Yep

For me from summer 2015 with edberg and the implimentation of the sabr it was already néo federer

Alex "0 slams Zverev" with the 4-3 head-to-head win on Federer 😂

@@huzcer cmon Zverev,Thiem and Tsitsipas got wins over Fed when he was 36-38.

@@Saskobest Zverev is being derided as being thrashed here by Fed but he got the best of him in the7- match head to head. Their last match was only a few months after Federer was in a slam final. And this was when Zverev was renowned for the double-fault yips.

@@huzcer all of them(Zverev,Thiem and Tsitsipas) beat him hard in 2018/19 when Fed was older than Novak is right now and with more worn out body. Apart from 3 tournaments, Fed played horribly in 2019

@@Saskobest And in 2017 when Federer was younger than Djokovic when Djokovic beat Alcaraz and Sinner back to back to win the ATP Finals Fed Lost to David "0 masters titles" Goffin in the ATP Finals Semi with flaky Dimitrov waiting in the lay-up final... I mean Sinner would chew up and spit out 2017 Goffin for breakfast.

Zverev did beat Federer 4-3 in the head-to-head so he's probably ok....

U gonna type that all.over?​@@huzcer

@@twainhouson-frederick1847 no just where I saw Zverev mentioned as if he was something to be pitied or something when in fact Federer lost the 7 match head to head to him.....

That would be overkill.

@@FearsomeVoid 🤝🏽

Servebot and volley had more tv viewers watching Wimbledon WTA of all things instead by the late 90's.

That goes for any next gen player.

@@FearsomeVoid Sinner is the complete opposite. Grounded, kind guy and very gentle.

your jaw doesnt hurt from all that throating?

that's djokovic for sure

@@Assembledonetwo keep coping kid

@@initialise21 me? or you lol

@@Assembledonetwo you keep coping that your weak era champ frauderer choked 3x 40-15 match points

​@@initialise21keep coping kid, djokovic opponent from 2015-2023 where he hot 70% of his slams and rank 1 record was against raonic, anderson, kyrgios, berreteni, tsitsipas who went to grand slam finals once in a blue moon lmao ! Federer new gen opponent was nadal, djokovic, even roddick, safin, hewitt had better achievements and was way better than the new gen weak era facts ! Lmao !