Unsuccessful performers of the SW19; what’s next for them?
It is a natural process that one player’s victory at a major comes at another’s loss and an astounding success by one man needs him to upset another’s strategy. Here are some of the players who left the grass court Grand Slam tournament with disappointments and what we can hope from them in the future.
Roger Federer
Federer has not succeeded in a single championship and has been hammered down at the quarterfinal stage of the previous two slams.
The United States Open is just around the corner and the question is whether or not he can manage to get back to his top form there. His five straight trophies from 2004 2008 shows that the clay court suits his playing style simply as much as grass and, as a plus point, does not go well with Rafael Nadal’s game.
However, it was at previous year’s Open that the stunning trend of big guys with extremely big forehands who could easily smash through Federer’s more compact game started. Now after a year eliminated from 30, the Swiss tennis ace appears less capable to handle their pace through attack, discrepancy and absolute enthusiasm.
Federer has perhaps receded after the grass court Grand Slam tournament, hoping to catch some portion of his game that has strived as of late in time in order to reassess himself in the United States of America. He will be twenty nine by then, so whether a physical preparation is enough or not is a major question at the moment.
Robin Soderling
In a variety of ways, this was a prosperous grass court Grand Slam for the player, who made the upcoming Brazilian Thomaz Bellucci as well as American veteran Robbie Ginepri look good out of their weight classes in first week. Then he raced out in the first set with a lead of 5-0 versus Rafa and it seemed as if he was determined to duplicate the feat of Jim Courier back in 1993: showing that on grass court, the high Forehand is the latest first volley.
However, even in holding the set number one of that match, Soderling surrendered the momentum by permitting Nadal to win back one break, and he assisted that break by going for a careless second serve ace in the match.
When Nadal is being out smocked he will, more like Andre Agassi used to, land minor shots that he can likely add to later. As the match advances and he begins pulling the huge guy to move more, those minor shots add up and later his contender finds that he is wounded all over.
Robin did have a damage foot, but the amount of movement Nadal made him do perhaps had a lot more to do with that.
Soderling’s lack of quality and flexibility don’t seem good for his prospects of succeeding in a major one day. If he doesn’t manage to realize a match’s important points and play them accordingly, he has probably blossomed. That recognition is unsatisfactory indeed.
Andy Roddick
The American tennis ace Andy Roddick did not prepare at his very best for this season’s Wimbledon no matter whatever the reasons it followed.
In 2008 he tried to play a whole season on the clay court, which blunts his serving quality and needs more effort from him. What Roddick, then twenty five years of age got for his difficulties was the back injury that kept him away from Paris and sent him moving early in England.
It is so unlucky on his part, because after his Miami victory in spring, he had enough of momentum as well as the form. As far as the upcoming United States Open is concerned, Roddick will definitely try hard to give his hundred percent however the analysts are much concerned over the fact that whether he will be able to do that or not?
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