📊 Les joueurs qui ont passé le moins de temps sur le court pour se qualifier en 1/2 finale d'un tournoi du Grand Chelem sans voir bénéficié du moindre forfait ou abandon (XXIe siècle) :
▪️ 7h51 : Federer 🇨🇭 Wim 2015
▪️ 7h54 : Federer 🇨🇭 Wim 2006
▪️ 8h02 : Federer 🇨🇭 Wim 2004
▪️ 8h15 : Federer 🇨🇭 Wim 2008
▪️ 8h16 : Federer 🇨🇭 US 2015
At just 19 years old, Roger Federer defeated his childhood idol Pete Sampras in an unforgettable five-set battle at Wimbledon.
Sampras was already a seven-time Wimbledon champion. 🎾🔥
UNIQLO and Global Brand Ambassador Roger Federer unite for the fifth stop of the “Around the World” event series. A celebration of sport, art, and culture coming together in a city that champions the power of an open mind and openness to new ideas: Amsterdam.
Artwork from the legendary martens-martens transformed the Olympisch Stadion Amsterdam and court, sounds by Marciano Slager filled the air, and excitement was kept high by host Floris Göbel.
The power of clothing was on full display with a special Heart of LifeWear HEATTECH giveaway for youth from @worldtennis, Johan Cruyff Foundation and Save the Children Nederland.
A special day to inspire and provide for the next generation.
Massive tennis ball rant incoming.
After playing Washington, Cincinnati, and the US Open, plus a full week of training in New York beforehand, I got a VERY good feel for the Wilson US Open balls we were using and know EXACTLY what they should feel like off my racket. They were good balls, and I have no complaints about what we played with at those tournaments this summer.
But since coming home, my last two days of practice with Wilson US Open balls have been miserable. They are sold, marketed, and labeled as the same balls, but the way they come off my racket and feel couldn’t be more different.
After that many weeks using the tournament balls, I know exactly how they respond. The balls I’m practicing with feel like literal green-dot kids’ balls: incredibly soft, dead, and going nowhere. I’m playing on a court with a similar speed to the courts at the Open as well just to be clear. I’ve tried balls from multiple cases to rule out a bad batch, and unfortunately, it’s been the same across the board. Other players I’ve spoken to since the Open have described the same thing.
The amount of effort I have to use to just produce a regular rally ball with these balls is insane. I’m having to throw my whole body into shots and swing out of my shoes just to produce a solid rally ball. Beyond being frustrating, it feels like it’s creating bad habits (I would never swing this aggressively normally or else I’d sent balls to the back fence or mistime every other shot) I’m having to adjust the way I hit just to compensate for a ball that behaves nothing like the one we use in competition.
That leads to the obvious the bigger issue and the reason for the rant: we need to be able to train with the same balls we compete with, and in the past I feel like this wasn’t usually an issue.
It didn’t used to feel this way. There was consistency, and any small differences could usually be explained by the court or conditions. Over the last year and a half, though, I’ve noticed such a significant difference between retail balls from both Wilson and Dunlop and their tournament equivalents, which are supposed to be identical, that it completely changes how you want to construct points and take risks on shots and just play points in general. I’m not exaggerating it really is making that big of a difference at the pro level.
The only positive I can take out of playing with these balls the last couple days is that it takes such more extra effort in every shot i hit at least it has been good cardio consistently having to swing so hard all the time 😂
It’s disappointing that this has started to feel normal. Training is a lot less enjoyable, and a lot less productive, when you’re spending it practicing with balls that are so different from what you’ll use when it matters.
Okay, rant over. Everyone go enjoy watching the rest of the Open :)
@rogerfederer meets with legendary graphic designer Karel Martens at his studio to see the court design for today’s event: Around the World with Roger Federer: Open Court Amsterdam.
Highlights from when Roger Federer played Godly tennis vs Novak Djokovic in the World Tour Finals 2010! Tennis nearer the Gods 🐐 No mortals may approach
Federer es el mayor talento natural que ha pisado una pista de tenis.
Pese a su actual edad, que ha ganado un par de kilitos y que tiene la rodilla oxidada, se mueve con una soltura y una facilidad que ya no se ve hoy día.
Este hombre no se movía por la pista… BAILABA.
Hoy seguiría ganando partidos porque con su saque, su derecha y su inteligencia para abrir ángulos y subir a la red superaría a muchos jóvenes que hoy solo tienen el zambombazo como arma, pero con falta de planes alternativos.
No habrá sido el que más ha ganado, pero a nivel estético, Roger Federer es lo más bello que hemos visto, y probablemente veremos, en una pista de tenis.
237 consecutive weeks at No.1.
36 consecutive Slam QFs.
10 consecutive Slam finals.
8 Wimbledon titles.
Some records just speak for themselves. 👑 @rogerfederer