When Roger plays it’s not a game but an art perfected to the precision. His footwork, balance, recovery and court coverage and his versatile shots are such a pleasure to watch. You can literally learn to play tennis just by watching his videos alone.
Watching his movements on the court, his beautiful and natural posture, balance, fluidity and alignment helps me so much to improve my piano playing as I learn a lot about using my arm in the most natural and efficient way possible when I play piano. This has improved my technique a lot. Roger Federer is the Mozart of tennis, absolute genius.
That shot against Agassi and his reaction is off the charts. That should be in the tennis training hall of Fame. That we have been enough for me to just go home. This guy has no equal when it comes to this game. You can't even explain what he is doing.
I don’t see myself going back watching videos from his main competitors once they have retired. Can’t get enough of watching Federer though. I believe as humans we always long for beauty as it elates the soul and evokes emotions. This is what I experience watching this. Pure joy.
The one quality that Federer had above and beyond any player (past or present) was GRACE. Nadal hustles with frenetic energy and bustling athleticism, Novak has the complete game with little to no weaknesses, but Roger played with an effortless élan, a grace and fluidity that almost made him seem a ballet dancer. He made impossible shots with an artistry that defied and transcended the limitations the rest of us burden under. I think that's why it was so exhilarating to watch him play: he made the improbable rote, and the impossible seem easy, giving all of us a glimpse into how it would feel to truly fly.
Just incredible. Anyone who has even attempted to play tennis knows how hard tennis is to master and this guy's talent is just miles above everyone. If had one-tenth his talent, I would be in the tour today. I will never forget this man. He is a true joy to watch and I consider myself so lucky that I witness every moment of his glorious career. I just feel sad that young children will never witness your talent. Unfortunately all great things must come to an end. I hope to see you in exhibitions with your friend Andy Roddick again. Thank you for everything. May retirement bring you as much happiness as you given all your fans.
Others have played with more power, with more spin, with more speed, but no one will match Roger's grace, elegance, touch. He made billions fall in love with tennis and left us in awe. We can only thank him and wish him all the best!
The amount of sad nostalgia and sheer sense of mourning on youtube since the announcement of Roger's retirement has been something else. Thanks for posting!
His playing style was so unique, and above rest of the players, classy player, and person on, and off the court. He's so different than any other players since the game of tennis invented. One of the most loved tennis players if not of all athletes.
End of an Era. Thank you Maéstro, a.k.a. Roger Federer for all the memories. It was an honour witnessing your grace, elegance, flamboyance. There will never be another athlete, another Champion, another #Legend like you. You are simply the very best!🙏🏻🏆❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ You made us all fall in love with this sport. You made us believe that no matter how hard life knocks us down, we must never give up and keep Believeing. It was a privilege watching you, right from my childhood days,almost 2 decades ago till now. You are an icon in not only tennis, but also the Sporting Universe as a whole. We all realise what you had to go through the past 3 years with 3 back to back arthroscopic surgeries on the knee. The only thing I am happy about now is that you will be relieved of the physical stress that a tennis athlete has to endure in order to play at the highest level. Needless to say that it breaks my heart to even imagine that you will never be seen again in the ATP Circuit after next week. 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔Tennis will never be the same again without you, Rog! This is the saddest day of Tennis till now. 🙏🏻💔 You revolutionized the sport in astronomical proportions Roger. Your Legacy shall live on forever. 🙏🏻❤️ Tennis will never be the same again without you. 🙏🏻💔 Thank you from the bottom of my heart. ❣️❤ 2017... What a dream year it was!! 🙏🏻❤️ Now only the memories remain for us to cherish. Here are some of the feats achieved by Roger Federer. 1. Record 237 Consecutive weeks as World Number 1(from February 2004 to July 2008) and a total of 310 weeks as World #1. 2. Record 65 consecutive Grass Court wins from 2003 to 2008 3. Record 19 ATP Titles on grass. 3. Record 5 consecutive Wimbledon Titles(2003-2007), a record shared with Bjon Borg. 4. 20 Grand Slam Titles, the 3rd Highest after Rafa Nadal(22) and Novak Djokovic (21). 5. Record 8 Wimbledon Titles. 6. 6 Australian Open Titles, the 2nd highest after Novak Djokovic(9). 7. Record 5 US Open Titles, shared with Pete Sampras and Jimmy Connors 8. 1 Roland Garros Title, where he had lost 4 of those Finals against Rafa Nadal, the winner of 14 Roland Garros Titles and is yet to lose a Roland Garros Final. 9. Record 23 Consecutive Grand Slam semi final appearances from 2005 Roland Garros to 2010 Australian Open, which also features a record 10 consecutive Grand Slam Finals from 2005 Wimbledon to 2007 US Open, followed by yet another 8 consecutive Grand Slam Finals from 2008 Roland Garros to 2010 Australian Open. 10. Record 369 Grand Slam match wins from 429 matches(86% wins), including 105 wins and 14 losses at Wimbledon(88%), 102 wins and 15 losses at Australian Open(87%), 89 wins and 14 losses at US Open(86%), 73 wins and 17 losses at Roland Garros(81%). 11.103 ATP Titles including 1251 ATP match wins out of 1500 matches, only 2nd to Connors's 107 ATP Titles and 1274 match wins. 12. Oldest ever World Number 1 in 2018( 36 years, 10 months). 13. Recovered to win from a 2 sets to 0 deficit on 10 occassions. Rafa has done that 4 tines and Novak 7 times. 14. Olympics Gold Medalist(doubles) with Stan Wawrinka at the 2008 Beijing Olymlics and Olympics Silver Medalist(singles) at the 2012 London Olympics. 15. Davis Cup Champion( 2014). 16. 0 match retirements. Needless to say that the Legacy of this Great Man is beyond any numbers. He revolutionized the sport in astronomical levels with his fluid style of play, that made this Challenging sport seem like a walk in the park. He is in every sense THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME. He now leaves behind an INFINITE LEGACY, and a void that can never ever be fulfilled. The Legacy built on a foundation of a combination of God-gifted talent, hard work, dedication and enormous sacrifice. Thank you Roger Federer for everything you gave to the Sport, thank you for the sheer joy, encouragement, motivation, belief that you gave us over the years. There will never ever be another Champion like you. 💯❣️❤️
My favourite athlete :(( the day has come, been through the ups and downs, I’ll never forget how he won the AO in 17, Wimbledon in 17 & AO again in 18. Proved everyone wrong & helped inspired a martial artists like myself. I’m now 23 years old but tennis was the first sport I loved growing up! Thank you for everything! All aboard the fedexpress!
I have seen many styles when it comes to tennis, the aggressive baseliner, the counterpuncher, the all-court player, the serve-and-volleyer, the pusher, etc. But the style that better describes Roger is Pure Skill and Elegance
One of the reasons Roger will always be loved is his truly unbelievable hand-eye coordination and his reflexes. He would do things instinctively with a flick of his wrist and it's just not human.
I start to love Alcaraz, but when seeing this I realise how effortless and magic the tennis of Federer was. Incredibly classy... no wonder he will always be the GOAT no matter GS numbers.
Being the greatest was never about only titles, you see it in Football or Basketball, the two greatest of both sports aren't the ones with the most titles, the same happens with tennis, there will never be a player like Roger, even his rivals knows he's the greatest of all time!
Alcaraz is highly influenced by Federer and is a gift to tennis. But seeing Federer again - and most of these clips are Federer past his prime - there's just no one who moves like him, where you could freeze frame it at any moment and have a photo to put on your wall. So smooth.
and numbers are great anyway ! Nadal, Djokovic, and other talented player like Tsitsipas, Zverev ecc are great (Nadal and Djokovic on another level...) but i ve never seen anybody play tennis like this...
One of the underrated parts of RF’s career is that the majority of it took place in the Hi-Def era. We will get to keep seeing these types of video clips in all their majesty in crisp clarity. Unlike Borg, McEnroe, Laver, Connors, et. al.
Unfortunately a lot of youtube videos from his prime are not good quality, although the master footage would certainly be in high def. Big screen HDTVs were all the rage back then, it was definitely not blurry. I hope there's a project at some point to put out those matches in high def. The Federer/Agassi US Open '05 final is one of the rare gems that we have in great quality, 60 fps.
Good bye Roger. Thanks for the memories. From Borg, McEnroe,Lendl, Sampras, and Agassi, I’ve seen it all. You’re the best I’ve seen. No one can match your style, grace, humility, and shot making. There will be no one like you for generations to come. Thank you.
Tennis incarnate. The greatest pure player and shotmaker to have ever played tennis. The creator and revealer of a new aesthetics for tennis. The *only* player in _any_ individual sport to simultaneously be that sport's most prolific winner _and_ aesthetic touchstone (in that remarkable 2004-2009 period). The Fed will remain tennis's irreplaceable gold standard for as long as it's played. Thanks for the beauty, Maestro! 🙏
I am so glad I am alive and got to see this sporting generation of all time greats... roger, Rafa, Novak, Cr7, Messi, bolt, Sachin ..there are just so many
Why I picked up a tennis racket was because of RF, why I continued to play was so I could play RF one day, only played with a Wilson because of RF, hit countless tennis balls because of RF. They’ll be no one like Federer. His impact on the game and his flair that comes with class, simply a legend on its own. Thank you Roger Federer we all can’t wait to see your one last dance at the laver cup❤️
I don't think any athlete will ever amaze me like prime Federer did from 2004 to 2007. Watching him live back then it felt like he was doing something as well as a human can possibly do something. Incomparable.
The untouchable GENIUS of tennis. The sport has never seen anyone like him. I doubt it ever will again. For his genius alone, l rank him alone at the very top of the sport. Genius isn't moderated by numbers. It's in a league of its own. The most beautiful of tennis players who could easily have been an equally great ballet dancer.
Greatest sportsmen and human in terms of grace, popularity,skill,style and humbleness,once in a million years does a man like this come on Earth and I will remember him and the beautiful childhood he gave me for a lifetime.Love you Roger ❤️❤️.
This gave me chills, I’m so sad there won’t be any new shots to add to these types of compilations. I wish he would stick around for another year playing lower level atp tournaments so that he could beat Jimmy Connor’s all time match wins record…Federer deserves it.
Yeah man feels like a hole in the heart. I believed he still had one full season left in him but this took me by surprise. All the best to him though, given us so much to be grateful for
I hope we'll see some good stuff at Laver Cup. I hope he can still play high level at 70-80% movement, he just can't run at 100% for consecutive matches in a full season anymore. Also the way his letter was worded, it feels like he'll still keep in shape and do a lot of exhibition charity matches, and he can still hit crazy shots in those for the next few decades. He was careful to say that he's only saying goodbye to the ATP pro tour and the 4 Grand Slams, not to tennis itself - he'll always be a tennis player.
@@sup9542 yeah I think he realizes there’s no chance for him to win another slam. I’d like to think he could still win a few ATP 500s, but maybe his knee is bad enough that he can’t do that either :/.
After seeing this and being reminded of his tennis genius, shows me that the current crop of players are not as 3 dimensional as he is. Once in a lifetime a player like Roger comes along. Effortless x
This is a great statement from you... i ll miss also Djokovic when he will retire, but now let' s enjoy him, with his backhand, his flexibilty, his mental strenght etc.... at leas we will be less sad... i hope ;)
@A R You're comparing Caravaggio with paint by numbers. You're comparing the Northern Lights with a normal starry night in a city. You're comparing Baryshnikov with dancing robots - pure grace against pure mechanics. You're comparing the light of the sun with the reflected sunlight of the moon. It's called talent and GENIUS. Genius is the word used for Roger Federer that will never be used for any other player of his era. Great is good and replaceable. Genius is uniquely indefinable and irreplaceable. There were "Greats" before Roger Federer, with Roger Federer, and there will be after Roger Federer but he is THE uniquely gifted tennis player for now. All time? It doesn't exist because none of us will ever see it, so the term GOAT is non-sensical, it means literally nothing.
@@terjoe6643i think but its my opinion Federer is the more élégant but he is not the only gifted player The 20 year kid is also gifted And unfortunayely has like fed at the same âge the prodigy complex He has to set up all the puzzle pièces Like fed did to reach his prime
I went out and played tennis today for the first time in a couple years. After I was finished, I came home and watched this video and had a fresh appreciation for what this great man was able to do. Tennis is all about timing - Federer wasn't just a great tennis player - he had a 6th sense and razor sharp perception.
ALL THAT RISES PASSES AWAY… BUT CERTAINLY LEAVING AN EVERGREEN FRESH MEMORIES OF ONE OF THE GREATEST GENTLEMEN OFF AND ON COURT FOR EVER... HATS OFF TO ROGER THE GREAT.. HE RETIRES FROM THE GAME… NEVER FROM OUR MINDS!!! LOVE YOU FEDEX!!
@@ommrf20 interesting - evergreen is a very significant word with what's playing out around the world and during lockdown - even with regards to the Queens so called death and lying in state and her funeral on Monday...maybe in your case just actual coincidence but I think intuitively your soul probably knows something..blessings - oh, and watch the Queens funeral - just my message to you...
At the end of the day it comes down to this, with enough training you could play like Djokovic, but with no amount of training could you play like federer
Lmao Federer fans are something else entirely… Djokovic is better than Federer and he became Djokovic with the same amount of training for Federer to become federer
Hearing Robbie Koenig wax poetic when Roger would produce a magical shot. In all my years of watching tennis, this will always be one of my favorite things.
You will always be my tennis hero. I will miss his charm and cool composure in the court. The best of the best in the business. Happy retirement to the one and only tennis Super Star that I know of.
In terms of visual genius, Roger is the GOAT - sublime skill, easy movement on the court, out-of-this-world shot making and that second version of the backhand was incredible. He had Nadal and Djokovic to push him to unbelievable heights, I’m not sure we’ll see someone like him for at least 50 years
missing him already. The CLASS + SKILL will remain unmatched for a long time. my goodness! the fluency, style, the visuals, the excitement! im sorry, but from my pov, no one comes close.
8:06 I think of all these magnificent shots, the one with Agassi was the most impressive one. Agassi thought he had him and you could tell how frustrated he was when he sat down on his bench after being broken.
He wasn't someone I supported but he is part of my childhood. Much respect to him and for his part in Tennis I will surely miss seeing his name pop when ever I would check Tennis results.
The special trickshots are amazing on the eye, but what he did between them was what won him 20 Slams. With Rafa best forhand of the game, one of the best serves ever, probably with Novak more than Rafa best movement ever, having every tactic of the game, plus sabr ;) one of the best competitors, taking the ball unbelievably early (which is the most special for me), probably many more things.
The great, the legend, the goat, gonna miss you Roger. You have inspired me to play professional tennis and it makes me cry that you are retiring, like tennis tic production said, dear roger Federer, thank you
We willen miss you Roger.Enjoy the rest of your days with your Beautifulll FAMILIE. I Saw You Play on R.Garros It wass a BEAUTIFULL MOMENT. that I never forget.THANKS.
There's no such thing as a GOAT, because eras can't be comparable fairly. Not even Novak and Roger can be compared fairly due to the age gap between them. Roger's tennis belonged to the 90's and he brought that into each decade he played. He adapted his game to every standard and development of the modern times without sacrificing his essence. He had no business playing (let alone winning) against people much younger than him while he was out of his prime or above 30yo. Every player from his generation retired at 28-32. That alone is worthly enough of any praise he gets. On top of that, Roger got everything to show for. He had the technique, the aesthetics and the numbers to prove his status. He may have lost the biggest records now, thanks to the absence of new players rising to the task, but he won our hearts forever.
💯💯👏👏👏 This is what most casuals and all these fans don't understand. Man started in the late 90s and dominated the early 2000s upto the 2008 wimbledon final and then from their still managed to prolong his career upto 2019 or 21 I'd say competing and winning slams against Novak and rafa in their dominant period from the 2010s to 2020s! And plus the way his tennis is played, the calmness, shot selection, just pure art ❤️ Man debuted when i was born in 98 and now I'm 24 and for 24 years there's no comparison as to who elevated and entire sport to another level than what it was! Thank you for everything ❤️ Roger Federer 😭😭😭 "enough to make a grown man cry"
@@gts8919 You can count with your hand the times Federer was outplayed by Nadal or Đoković, and all of them involved him being in a period out of form or with some condition. I can't say the same to any other player.
What makes it more amazing is that his competitors weren't slouches. They were also the best of the best and he was still able to pull those shots off.
A glorious career comes to an end. Thank you Federer, for entertaining us and keeping us obsessed with tennis for more than 2 decades. Good luck for your future endeavors
One of the reasons why he is the GOAT is because all these years it was the other two legends who were trying to catch up to him, and neither of them did it until 2020. They surpassed him only after he stopped competing.
give me a break fanboy they catching up to him only coz he was 5-6 years older than them while they had each others to compete against unlike Federer who had nobody legit to compete against him during the weak era of 2003-2007 bar a prodigy youngster Nadal on Clay at the end of it and if Nadal didn't had prime Djokovic & tons of injuries to stop him for more than a decade now he would've surpassed Federer at everything many years ago already.
The competition definitely dipped as Djokovic in particular racked up Slams. If there ever was a weak era, it was the last several years, but it's looking better now with Alcaraz, Sinner and others. Federer's prime gets called a weak era by kids who were too young to have seen it. But make no mistake, the field was full of men back then, not boys. They were just tougher, battle scarred opponents, not a bunch of softies whose parents forced them to play.
@@zakariadjouzi660 The top 10 players of "the weak era" would have destroyed any top 10 player of the last 10-15 years. Federer lost a lot of important matches to the "weak era" players whereas the Serb has only struggled with either Roger or Nadal for the last 10 years. Roger was beating Agassi and Sampras in his early 20s while they were still on top of their game since they hadn't stopped winning titles or reaching finals.
@@georgiostemirsidis1966 The top 10 players of that week era were a joke that got already dominated by a teenager clay courter in Nadal who even dominated Federer since then before Djokovic did the same some years after it to expose how weak Federer even at his peak/prime and his weak era actually were, that's why Federer who mostly dominated that weak era couldn't keep up just after that with Nadal & Djokovic next to their much stronger era of the past decade, also Nadal & Djokovic only struggled to each others coz they were that good and dominant against everyone even Federer himself specially Nadal who owned Federer like no player ever did to his main rival in tennis. Also Federer barely ever lost any important games to weak era players who couldn't keep up with him & his serve nor did they even keep up with a prodigy Nadal being just a clay courter mainly by then that's why Federer won most of his Slams back in that same weak era before he struggled to win them after that when Nadal then Djokovic joined him at the top of the tennis hirarchy, also when Federer started his career as a teenager in 1998 Sampras & Aggasi were already elders for tennis players aka too old to dominate and when he started beating them during his 20's at the early 2000's Sampras was playing his last tennis season before retiring due to his injuries ruining him back in 2002 which was 2 years before Federer even reached his prime just like Aggasi who could barely keep up with the highest level of tennis mainly back then before he also retired in 2006 for those same reasons, so the first rival & legit test in tennis which Federer concistantly had was a clay courter Nadal as a teenager back then which already started dominating him to expose him & his weak era of mid 2000's.
@@zakariadjouzi660 I never liked Djokovic but at least I never disrespect him in my comments. Everything you say basically implies that Federer is a hack. He stopped dominating in his mid 30s. He won most of his slams after Nadal had already emerged. Between 2005 and 2011 Federer was unquestionably superior to Djokovic. Philippousis, Kafelnikov, Kuerten, Enqvist, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Nalbandian, Safit, Hewitt, Moya, Agassi, Ljubicic and Roddick are some of the players that you believe are worse than Zverev, Berretini, Wawrinka, Tsonga, Cilic, Rublev all of whom Roger still outshined even as an old timer. Federer turned pro in 1998 and in 3 years was already a top player and winning huge titles. Novak turned pro in 2003 and wasn't nearly as good as Federer or Nadal for like 8-9 years. Novak barely beat a 38 year old Federer at Wimbledon. I honestly don't see what makes Djokovic "way better". Keep in mind that Novak started really beating him when Roger was in his mid 30s. Almost every match before 2011 was a straight sets win for Federer. It'd make more sense if you argued that he's better than Nadal.
For me, Roger would still be the best player I'd ever seen even if he only had 10 Grand Slams to his name. I've been watching Tennis since the 90s and he remains the only player who has regularly made me question the laws of physics. This is not to take away from any other player whatsoever, they're all remarkable and have amazing talent but Roger was a once in a lifetime 💜
OK...maybe not the GOAT in terms of playing career (Djokovic IMO, although he's my least favorite of the Big 3), but if you consider his impact to the game, his legacy, what he brought and what he means to the sport, there is no other like him. Greatest ambassador of tennis and arguably the greatest of any sport, most beloved wordwide, most admired/respected/imitated by his peers. He brought class, elegance, and excitement to the court all over the world. And while his overall playing career doesn't match Djokovic, I'd argue that Fed had the best ~10 year period. He had a 40 slam period, starting 2003 until 2013, in which he accomplished: - 17 GS titles, 24 finals, 33 semifinals, 38 QF (again, this is out of 40!) - 10 consecutive finals - 23 consecutive semifinals - 36 consecutive QF This level of consistency is absolutely amazing.
You will never find such gentleman again like roger what a Example 2 young children young kids luv him so much as player and a person bring tear to my eyes He is a legend of the game will never see you again. Good luck to future 😢❤❤
When he is in his groove.. he becomes a treasure box.. we will never know what shot will come out next to surprise the opponent and spectators together. He did that all with effortless looking fluid style..
Pitch Perfect Model Tennis Player. I will survive his retirement that he announced with all the style and personality as his showed in his play. A classy goodbye. Thanks for the great moments of amazing tennis 🎾 😍
Class act and a beautiful thing to watch when he was in the zone, which was most of the time. The one thing, that by in large goes unnoticed, is how he watches the ball through contact. Most players are looking to where they hope the ball will go before making contact. It's a millisecond difference but I'd be curious to know how this possibly helped him to play at the level he did.
yes - that millisecond of literally watching the ball onto the strings is often the difference between good great shots and 'miracle' shots that seem to come from no where - i can definitely attest to experiencing that in both tennis and squash that when i watched the ball onto the strings everything was effortless (body, foot placement, swing ) and timing was just spot on -
Nadal and Djokovic make tennis look difficult, and indeed it is a tough sport. Federer made tennis look easy and casual. That's why he is my favorite tennis player of all time. Love you Roger ❤️
Other people have to learn their shots. Roger created them, imagined them. He knows exactly how he wants the ball to fly and how to move the racket to get it to happen, no matter how he's positioned. It's hard to describe how different it is to watch him than anyone else. It's something about his timing and footwork and how early he takes every shot that means he almost never looks like he's reaching for the ball or caught on the back foot.
There will never be another one like him. We'll miss you 🐐♥️
There's two others better
@@adriabarba3846 who? Alcaraz and Rudd? come on, please !
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He is from my home town Basel Switzerland 🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭
When Roger plays it’s not a game but an art perfected to the precision. His footwork, balance, recovery and court coverage and his versatile shots are such a pleasure to watch. You can literally learn to play tennis just by watching his videos alone.
Absolutely.
It was breathtaking tennis.
Watching his movements on the court, his beautiful and natural posture, balance, fluidity and alignment helps me so much to improve my piano playing as I learn a lot about using my arm in the most natural and efficient way possible when I play piano. This has improved my technique a lot. Roger Federer is the Mozart of tennis, absolute genius.
That shot against Agassi and his reaction is off the charts. That should be in the tennis training hall of Fame. That we have been enough for me to just go home. This guy has no equal when it comes to this game. You can't even explain what he is doing.
I don’t see myself going back watching videos from his main competitors once they have retired. Can’t get enough of watching Federer though. I believe as humans we always long for beauty as it elates the soul and evokes emotions. This is what I experience watching this. Pure joy.
The one quality that Federer had above and beyond any player (past or present) was GRACE. Nadal hustles with frenetic energy and bustling athleticism, Novak has the complete game with little to no weaknesses, but Roger played with an effortless élan, a grace and fluidity that almost made him seem a ballet dancer. He made impossible shots with an artistry that defied and transcended the limitations the rest of us burden under. I think that's why it was so exhilarating to watch him play: he made the improbable rote, and the impossible seem easy, giving all of us a glimpse into how it would feel to truly fly.
Nailed it. He makes me want to go play tennis and try any shot possible everytime I watch him. Rhythm and melody🎾🎶
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perfectly said. i'll miss watching that elegance.
Yes!!!!! 💯
He makes those drop shots look easy and they are incredibly difficult to do
I shed a tear after watching this. Truly a legend of tennis.
truly THE legend of tennis
Chill he's retired not dead
@@harrisonhightower8255 only fanatics will understand. Roger will be sorely missed but the memories will always remain.
Just incredible. Anyone who has even attempted to play tennis knows how hard tennis is to master and this guy's talent is just miles above everyone. If had one-tenth his talent, I would be in the tour today. I will never forget this man. He is a true joy to watch and I consider myself so lucky that I witness every moment of his glorious career. I just feel sad that young children will never witness your talent. Unfortunately all great things must come to an end. I hope to see you in exhibitions with your friend Andy Roddick again. Thank you for everything. May retirement bring you as much happiness as you given all your fans.
Others have played with more power, with more spin, with more speed, but no one will match Roger's grace, elegance, touch. He made billions fall in love with tennis and left us in awe. We can only thank him and wish him all the best!
Commentators always go wild when Roger plays. Whether he wins or loses, the flair and shot-making are stuff of Gods. Absolutely flawless! 🐐
The amount of sad nostalgia and sheer sense of mourning on youtube since the announcement of Roger's retirement has been something else. Thanks for posting!
I think it’s safe to say no one will ever be as majestic on a tennis court as this man was
His playing style was so unique, and above rest of the players, classy player, and person on, and off the court. He's so different than any other players since the game of tennis invented. One of the most loved tennis players if not of all athletes.
He bring tennis for everyone
Roger … my most love in the tennis world… and Rafa❤️❤️
most marketed player to sell more running shoes and watches to armchair tennis players who are like sheep
@@canski5646 Jealousy is so common.
@@terjoe6643 ur right if i were fed i would be jealous of the way nadal/djoki dominated him
End of an Era. Thank you Maéstro, a.k.a. Roger Federer for all the memories. It was an honour witnessing your grace, elegance, flamboyance. There will never be another athlete, another Champion, another #Legend like you. You are simply the very best!🙏🏻🏆❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ You made us all fall in love with this sport. You made us believe that no matter how hard life knocks us down, we must never give up and keep Believeing. It was a privilege watching you, right from my childhood days,almost 2 decades ago till now. You are an icon in not only tennis, but also the Sporting Universe as a whole. We all realise what you had to go through the past 3 years with 3 back to back arthroscopic surgeries on the knee. The only thing I am happy about now is that you will be relieved of the physical stress that a tennis athlete has to endure in order to play at the highest level. Needless to say that it breaks my heart to even imagine that you will never be seen again in the ATP Circuit after next week. 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔Tennis will never be the same again without you, Rog! This is the saddest day of Tennis till now. 🙏🏻💔 You revolutionized the sport in astronomical proportions Roger. Your Legacy shall live on forever. 🙏🏻❤️ Tennis will never be the same again without you. 🙏🏻💔 Thank you from the bottom of my heart. ❣️❤
2017... What a dream year it was!! 🙏🏻❤️ Now only the memories remain for us to cherish.
Here are some of the feats achieved by Roger Federer.
1. Record 237 Consecutive weeks as World Number 1(from February 2004 to July 2008) and a total of 310 weeks as World #1.
2. Record 65 consecutive Grass Court wins from 2003 to 2008
3. Record 19 ATP Titles on grass.
3. Record 5 consecutive Wimbledon Titles(2003-2007), a record shared with Bjon Borg.
4. 20 Grand Slam Titles, the 3rd Highest after Rafa Nadal(22) and Novak Djokovic (21).
5. Record 8 Wimbledon Titles.
6. 6 Australian Open Titles, the 2nd highest after Novak Djokovic(9).
7. Record 5 US Open Titles, shared with Pete Sampras and Jimmy Connors
8. 1 Roland Garros Title, where he had lost 4 of those Finals against Rafa Nadal, the winner of 14 Roland Garros Titles and is yet to lose a Roland Garros Final.
9. Record 23 Consecutive Grand Slam semi final appearances from 2005 Roland Garros to 2010 Australian Open, which also features a record 10 consecutive Grand Slam Finals from 2005 Wimbledon to 2007 US Open, followed by yet another 8 consecutive Grand Slam Finals from 2008 Roland Garros to 2010 Australian Open.
10. Record 369 Grand Slam match wins from 429 matches(86% wins), including 105 wins and 14 losses at Wimbledon(88%), 102 wins and 15 losses at Australian Open(87%), 89 wins and 14 losses at US Open(86%), 73 wins and 17 losses at Roland Garros(81%).
11.103 ATP Titles including 1251 ATP match wins out of 1500 matches, only 2nd to Connors's 107 ATP Titles and 1274 match wins.
12. Oldest ever World Number 1 in 2018( 36 years, 10 months).
13. Recovered to win from a 2 sets to 0 deficit on 10 occassions. Rafa has done that 4 tines and Novak 7 times.
14. Olympics Gold Medalist(doubles) with Stan Wawrinka at the 2008 Beijing Olymlics and Olympics Silver Medalist(singles) at the 2012 London Olympics.
15. Davis Cup Champion( 2014).
16. 0 match retirements.
Needless to say that the Legacy of this Great Man is beyond any numbers. He revolutionized the sport in astronomical levels with his fluid style of play, that made this Challenging sport seem like a walk in the park. He is in every sense THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME. He now leaves behind an INFINITE LEGACY, and a void that can never ever be fulfilled. The Legacy built on a foundation of a combination of God-gifted talent, hard work, dedication and enormous sacrifice. Thank you Roger Federer for everything you gave to the Sport, thank you for the sheer joy, encouragement, motivation, belief that you gave us over the years. There will never ever be another Champion like you. 💯❣️❤️
You can prédict the future to prétend that there will be never champion like him
Damn those 10 mins flew by like nothing. Such a joy to watch the magician at work. He will be missed! Those half volleys man.. out of this world.
He wont have the stats to be considered the goat on paper. But prime Federer is the highest level of tennis ever achieved.
amen to that
20 grandslams man. His stat sheet isn't half bad
Correct
Agreed
Umm on paper and in the highlight reels, he's the GOAT
My favourite athlete :(( the day has come, been through the ups and downs, I’ll never forget how he won the AO in 17, Wimbledon in 17 & AO again in 18. Proved everyone wrong & helped inspired a martial artists like myself. I’m now 23 years old but tennis was the first sport I loved growing up! Thank you for everything! All aboard the fedexpress!
I have seen many styles when it comes to tennis, the aggressive baseliner, the counterpuncher, the all-court player, the serve-and-volleyer, the pusher, etc. But the style that better describes Roger is Pure Skill and Elegance
One of the reasons Roger will always be loved is his truly unbelievable hand-eye coordination and his reflexes. He would do things instinctively with a flick of his wrist and it's just not human.
I start to love Alcaraz, but when seeing this I realise how effortless and magic the tennis of Federer was. Incredibly classy... no wonder he will always be the GOAT no matter GS numbers.
Agree! I think that GOAT goes beyond titles, it's what Roger brought to tennis and the world! He's just amazing!
Being the greatest was never about only titles, you see it in Football or Basketball, the two greatest of both sports aren't the ones with the most titles, the same happens with tennis, there will never be a player like Roger, even his rivals knows he's the greatest of all time!
@@NicolasBeecher There are 2 other players who surpassed him.Being the 3rd best ever is no shame.Take it and move on.
Alcaraz is highly influenced by Federer and is a gift to tennis. But seeing Federer again - and most of these clips are Federer past his prime - there's just no one who moves like him, where you could freeze frame it at any moment and have a photo to put on your wall. So smooth.
@@brunofernandez2906 1. Nadal , 2 Djokovic, 3 Roger .
There is not more conversation
Forget about the numbers. Greatest of all time. No time wasting, no false injuries. Just glorious tennis, constantly.
and numbers are great anyway ! Nadal, Djokovic, and other talented player like Tsitsipas, Zverev ecc are great (Nadal and Djokovic on another level...)
but i ve never seen anybody play tennis like this...
@@michelegrassi4385 Zverev is an overrated woman beater lol.
Just arrogance, saltiness, inferiority, etc… yeah sure he’s the goat lmao
@@SwagDawgaverage reels watcher calls roger arrogant
One of the underrated parts of RF’s career is that the majority of it took place in the Hi-Def era. We will get to keep seeing these types of video
clips in all their majesty in crisp clarity. Unlike Borg, McEnroe, Laver, Connors, et. al.
Well his absolute dominance 2003-2007 was still in VHS era sadly
Unfortunately a lot of youtube videos from his prime are not good quality, although the master footage would certainly be in high def. Big screen HDTVs were all the rage back then, it was definitely not blurry. I hope there's a project at some point to put out those matches in high def. The Federer/Agassi US Open '05 final is one of the rare gems that we have in great quality, 60 fps.
Good bye Roger. Thanks for the memories. From Borg, McEnroe,Lendl, Sampras, and Agassi, I’ve seen it all. You’re the best I’ve seen. No one can match your style, grace, humility, and shot making. There will be no one like you for generations to come. Thank you.
Federer is unique like all the human being but you cant prédict the future unfortunately
We will see
Tennis incarnate. The greatest pure player and shotmaker to have ever played tennis. The creator and revealer of a new aesthetics for tennis. The *only* player in _any_ individual sport to simultaneously be that sport's most prolific winner _and_ aesthetic touchstone (in that remarkable 2004-2009 period). The Fed will remain tennis's irreplaceable gold standard for as long as it's played. Thanks for the beauty, Maestro! 🙏
I am so glad I am alive and got to see this sporting generation of all time greats... roger, Rafa, Novak, Cr7, Messi, bolt, Sachin ..there are just so many
Why I picked up a tennis racket was because of RF, why I continued to play was so I could play RF one day, only played with a Wilson because of RF, hit countless tennis balls because of RF. They’ll be no one like Federer. His impact on the game and his flair that comes with class, simply a legend on its own. Thank you Roger Federer we all can’t wait to see your one last dance at the laver cup❤️
I don't think any athlete will ever amaze me like prime Federer did from 2004 to 2007. Watching him live back then it felt like he was doing something as well as a human can possibly do something. Incomparable.
The untouchable GENIUS of tennis. The sport has never seen anyone like him. I doubt it ever will again. For his genius alone, l rank him alone at the very top of the sport. Genius isn't moderated by numbers. It's in a league of its own. The most beautiful of tennis players who could easily have been an equally great ballet dancer.
Greatest sportsmen and human in terms of grace, popularity,skill,style and humbleness,once in a million years does a man like this come on Earth and I will remember him and the beautiful childhood he gave me for a lifetime.Love you Roger ❤️❤️.
Roger's game is like fine Blues music. I can watch these same points a 10,000 times and they never get old. No one like him! Thank you Roger!!
When You watch those shots live it's Something else. You never know where the winners come from .I'm gonna miss watching Federer live so much!
This gave me chills, I’m so sad there won’t be any new shots to add to these types of compilations. I wish he would stick around for another year playing lower level atp tournaments so that he could beat Jimmy Connor’s all time match wins record…Federer deserves it.
Yeah man feels like a hole in the heart. I believed he still had one full season left in him but this took me by surprise. All the best to him though, given us so much to be grateful for
I hope we'll see some good stuff at Laver Cup. I hope he can still play high level at 70-80% movement, he just can't run at 100% for consecutive matches in a full season anymore. Also the way his letter was worded, it feels like he'll still keep in shape and do a lot of exhibition charity matches, and he can still hit crazy shots in those for the next few decades. He was careful to say that he's only saying goodbye to the ATP pro tour and the 4 Grand Slams, not to tennis itself - he'll always be a tennis player.
@@sup9542 yeah I think he realizes there’s no chance for him to win another slam. I’d like to think he could still win a few ATP 500s, but maybe his knee is bad enough that he can’t do that either :/.
After seeing this and being reminded of his tennis genius, shows me that the current crop of players are not as 3 dimensional as he is. Once in a lifetime a player like Roger comes along. Effortless x
Federer is the GOAT, and I say this as a Serbian! Fairwell King, we'll miss you!
This is a great statement from you... i ll miss also Djokovic when he will retire, but now let' s enjoy him, with his backhand, his flexibilty, his mental strenght etc....
at leas we will be less sad... i hope ;)
Goddamn. Will miss seeing him play so much. I still remember the joy his comeback to incredible form in 2017 gave me. What a legend.
Whoever created tennis probably imagined that one day a player would reach absolute perfection, that player ended up being Roger Federer
@A R You're comparing Caravaggio with paint by numbers. You're comparing the Northern Lights with a normal starry night in a city. You're comparing Baryshnikov with dancing robots - pure grace against pure mechanics. You're comparing the light of the sun with the reflected sunlight of the moon. It's called talent and GENIUS. Genius is the word used for Roger Federer that will never be used for any other player of his era. Great is good and replaceable. Genius is uniquely indefinable and irreplaceable. There were "Greats" before Roger Federer, with Roger Federer, and there will be after Roger Federer but he is THE uniquely gifted tennis player for now. All time? It doesn't exist because none of us will ever see it, so the term GOAT is non-sensical, it means literally nothing.
@@terjoe6643 beautifully put my friend
@@terjoe6643i think but its my opinion Federer is the more élégant but he is not the only gifted player
The 20 year kid is also gifted
And unfortunayely has like fed at the same âge the prodigy complex
He has to set up all the puzzle pièces Like fed did to reach his prime
I went out and played tennis today for the first time in a couple years. After I was finished, I came home and watched this video and had a fresh appreciation for what this great man was able to do. Tennis is all about timing - Federer wasn't just a great tennis player - he had a 6th sense and razor sharp perception.
The most classy, gracious and talented player for many generations to come. There will never be like him for a long time coming.
ALL THAT RISES PASSES AWAY…
BUT CERTAINLY
LEAVING AN
EVERGREEN FRESH
MEMORIES OF ONE OF THE GREATEST
GENTLEMEN OFF AND ON COURT FOR EVER...
HATS OFF TO ROGER
THE GREAT..
HE RETIRES FROM THE GAME… NEVER FROM
OUR MINDS!!!
LOVE YOU FEDEX!!
just wondering about your choice of the word "evergreen" - perhaps code??
Roger Fedex 💀
@@roblouw3038 it’s mean something fresh or new Here I mean memories.
Evergreen fresh memories
@@roblouw3038 something like that
It used quite a lot in friends too(the tv show sitcoms)
@@ommrf20 interesting - evergreen is a very significant word with what's playing out around the world and during lockdown - even with regards to the Queens so called death and lying in state and her funeral on Monday...maybe in your case just actual coincidence but I think intuitively your soul probably knows something..blessings - oh, and watch the Queens funeral - just my message to you...
He was pure magic! ✨Amazing tennis, class, elegance, sportsmanship, everything! Definitely the best! You will be miss Your Majesty 👑
At the end of the day it comes down to this, with enough training you could play like Djokovic, but with no amount of training could you play like federer
Lmao Federer fans are something else entirely… Djokovic is better than Federer and he became Djokovic with the same amount of training for Federer to become federer
@@SwagDawg he's making your point, djokovic is better than federer but federer has something else in his game that makes it majestic.
Djokovic is proof that there is hope for every dreamer out there
Nope, Fed fan here but what Djoko has done, none else has neither
@@rowdyboy5118 how many dreamers, how many Djokovic ?
Thanks a lot Roger
Your magic is over
But will cherish the memories
your magic is over... how bad i would like to say that you are wrong mate :(
Awesome.. Missing that backhand drop shot against Berdych in 2017..shot of the decade for me.. ❤️
Hearing Robbie Koenig wax poetic when Roger would produce a magical shot. In all my years of watching tennis, this will always be one of my favorite things.
You will always be my tennis hero. I will miss his charm and cool composure in the court. The best of the best in the business. Happy retirement to the one and only tennis Super Star that I know of.
Federer the GOAT and my all-time favourite player. At his best he was an artist on the court, floating around the court making it look effortless.
Para mi federer es y sera el tenista que mas disfrute ver jugar
Su juego era el mas elegante de todos los tiempos
Se te extrañara su majestad
An ERA-DEFINING legend of modern tennis. There will never be another Roger Federer.
Peak Roger was unmatchable in entertainment and tennis mastery
Probably the last of the classic one hand backhand players we will ever see play tennis. That backhand is a thing of beauty.
Quel bonheur de revoir Rog, la grande classe, le Maestro en action 💪
I WILL NEVER EVER FORGET THAT RALLY!!
😍
Do you find that level, hype, craze and grace in grand slams after the swiss master?
I dont think so, he was on next level. No doubt GOAT
In terms of visual genius, Roger is the GOAT - sublime skill, easy movement on the court, out-of-this-world shot making and that second version of the backhand was incredible. He had Nadal and Djokovic to push him to unbelievable heights, I’m not sure we’ll see someone like him for at least 50 years
missing him already.
The CLASS + SKILL will remain unmatched for a long time.
my goodness! the fluency, style, the visuals, the excitement!
im sorry, but from my pov, no one comes close.
8:06 I think of all these magnificent shots, the one with Agassi was the most impressive one. Agassi thought he had him and you could tell how frustrated he was when he sat down on his bench after being broken.
simply staggering. Cant believe we're talking about him in the past tense... Wish he could carry on forever...
Love Federer, the reason why I watched Tennis over the years
He wasn't someone I supported but he is part of my childhood. Much respect to him and for his part in Tennis I will surely miss seeing his name pop when ever I would check Tennis results.
The special trickshots are amazing on the eye, but what he did between them was what won him 20 Slams.
With Rafa best forhand of the game, one of the best serves ever, probably with Novak more than Rafa best movement ever, having every tactic of the game, plus sabr ;)
one of the best competitors, taking the ball unbelievably early (which is the most special for me), probably many more things.
The great, the legend, the goat, gonna miss you Roger. You have inspired me to play professional tennis and it makes me cry that you are retiring, like tennis tic production said, dear roger Federer, thank you
Roger is a true inspiration for the whole world and for generations to come😘 Thank you Fed🙏
Tennis will never be same without Roger playing
We willen miss you Roger.Enjoy the rest of your days with your Beautifulll FAMILIE. I Saw You Play on R.Garros It wass a BEAUTIFULL MOMENT. that I never forget.THANKS.
There's no such thing as a GOAT, because eras can't be comparable fairly. Not even Novak and Roger can be compared fairly due to the age gap between them.
Roger's tennis belonged to the 90's and he brought that into each decade he played. He adapted his game to every standard and development of the modern times without sacrificing his essence. He had no business playing (let alone winning) against people much younger than him while he was out of his prime or above 30yo. Every player from his generation retired at 28-32.
That alone is worthly enough of any praise he gets. On top of that, Roger got everything to show for. He had the technique, the aesthetics and the numbers to prove his status.
He may have lost the biggest records now, thanks to the absence of new players rising to the task, but he won our hearts forever.
💯💯👏👏👏
This is what most casuals and all these fans don't understand.
Man started in the late 90s and dominated the early 2000s upto the 2008 wimbledon final and then from their still managed to prolong his career upto 2019 or 21 I'd say competing and winning slams against Novak and rafa in their dominant period from the 2010s to 2020s!
And plus the way his tennis is played, the calmness, shot selection, just pure art ❤️
Man debuted when i was born in 98 and now I'm 24 and for 24 years there's no comparison as to who elevated and entire sport to another level than what it was!
Thank you for everything ❤️
Roger Federer 😭😭😭
"enough to make a grown man cry"
Absolutely 💯 well said...if all 3 were at the same age Roger would have more slams
@@RFED2O We don't know that but Roger is most fun to witness.
Well said. Federer always won by out-playing his opponents, unlike Djokovic who out-lasts, out-grinds and out-psychs.
@@gts8919 You can count with your hand the times Federer was outplayed by Nadal or Đoković, and all of them involved him being in a period out of form or with some condition.
I can't say the same to any other player.
That single handed backhand - what poetry!
The Swiss Master and maestro!!! Tennis won't be same without you!!!
Tennis tv, it’s not enough!!! I NEED MORE OF FEDERER’S BRILLIANCE!!!!
Its also a showcase of the incomparable robbie koenig commentating the sublime roger federer
Ombeliebable career. Without a doubt he will be missed, no?
Tennis Will never be the same without this man. He produced poetry in motion. Possibly the greatest sportsman ever.
What makes it more amazing is that his competitors weren't slouches. They were also the best of the best and he was still able to pull those shots off.
A glorious career comes to an end.
Thank you Federer, for entertaining us and keeping us obsessed with tennis for more than 2 decades.
Good luck for your future endeavors
He is the tennis, everyone else just played game. What a beauty!
Unrivalled artistry! My GOAT.
The man who made us fall in love with Tennis
The agassi point... you can see his spirit broken after that one
the point against Agassi was really out of this world !!!
7:28 looks so smooth
Roger made lawn tennis like table tennis! Stand and deliver! Majestic in every sense♥️
roger defines elegance and finesse.
In 23 september the last dance of the greatest
The legendary "STOP IT" ❤
Federer is most loved tennis player because when he plays it's like watching art in motion
Federers highlight reels (yes plural) are better than watching actual live tennis.
This dude is missed already…
GOAT!
One of the reasons why he is the GOAT is because all these years it was the other two legends who were trying to catch up to him, and neither of them did it until 2020. They surpassed him only after he stopped competing.
give me a break fanboy they catching up to him only coz he was 5-6 years older than them while they had each others to compete against unlike Federer who had nobody legit to compete against him during the weak era of 2003-2007 bar a prodigy youngster Nadal on Clay at the end of it and if Nadal didn't had prime Djokovic & tons of injuries to stop him for more than a decade now he would've surpassed Federer at everything many years ago already.
The competition definitely dipped as Djokovic in particular racked up Slams. If there ever was a weak era, it was the last several years, but it's looking better now with Alcaraz, Sinner and others. Federer's prime gets called a weak era by kids who were too young to have seen it. But make no mistake, the field was full of men back then, not boys. They were just tougher, battle scarred opponents, not a bunch of softies whose parents forced them to play.
@@zakariadjouzi660 The top 10 players of "the weak era" would have destroyed any top 10 player of the last 10-15 years. Federer lost a lot of important matches to the "weak era" players whereas the Serb has only struggled with either Roger or Nadal for the last 10 years. Roger was beating Agassi and Sampras in his early 20s while they were still on top of their game since they hadn't stopped winning titles or reaching finals.
@@georgiostemirsidis1966 The top 10 players of that week era were a joke that got already dominated by a teenager clay courter in Nadal who even dominated Federer since then before Djokovic did the same some years after it to expose how weak Federer even at his peak/prime and his weak era actually were, that's why Federer who mostly dominated that weak era couldn't keep up just after that with Nadal & Djokovic next to their much stronger era of the past decade, also Nadal & Djokovic only struggled to each others coz they were that good and dominant against everyone even Federer himself specially Nadal who owned Federer like no player ever did to his main rival in tennis.
Also Federer barely ever lost any important games to weak era players who couldn't keep up with him & his serve nor did they even keep up with a prodigy Nadal being just a clay courter mainly by then that's why Federer won most of his Slams back in that same weak era before he struggled to win them after that when Nadal then Djokovic joined him at the top of the tennis hirarchy, also when Federer started his career as a teenager in 1998 Sampras & Aggasi were already elders for tennis players aka too old to dominate and when he started beating them during his 20's at the early 2000's Sampras was playing his last tennis season before retiring due to his injuries ruining him back in 2002 which was 2 years before Federer even reached his prime just like Aggasi who could barely keep up with the highest level of tennis mainly back then before he also retired in 2006 for those same reasons, so the first rival & legit test in tennis which Federer concistantly had was a clay courter Nadal as a teenager back then which already started dominating him to expose him & his weak era of mid 2000's.
@@zakariadjouzi660 I never liked Djokovic but at least I never disrespect him in my comments. Everything you say basically implies that Federer is a hack. He stopped dominating in his mid 30s. He won most of his slams after Nadal had already emerged. Between 2005 and 2011 Federer was unquestionably superior to Djokovic. Philippousis, Kafelnikov, Kuerten, Enqvist, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Nalbandian, Safit, Hewitt, Moya, Agassi, Ljubicic and Roddick are some of the players that you believe are worse than Zverev, Berretini, Wawrinka, Tsonga, Cilic, Rublev all of whom Roger still outshined even as an old timer. Federer turned pro in 1998 and in 3 years was already a top player and winning huge titles. Novak turned pro in 2003 and wasn't nearly as good as Federer or Nadal for like 8-9 years. Novak barely beat a 38 year old Federer at Wimbledon. I honestly don't see what makes Djokovic "way better". Keep in mind that Novak started really beating him when Roger was in his mid 30s. Almost every match before 2011 was a straight sets win for Federer. It'd make more sense if you argued that he's better than Nadal.
For me, Roger would still be the best player I'd ever seen even if he only had 10 Grand Slams to his name. I've been watching Tennis since the 90s and he remains the only player who has regularly made me question the laws of physics. This is not to take away from any other player whatsoever, they're all remarkable and have amazing talent but Roger was a once in a lifetime 💜
Its Magical in any way to watch him play... no one had this magic to play this sport...Roger didnt play just Tennis. he made artwork on the court :-)
I grow looking him playing, so effortless, with class, without doubt my favorite player of all time.
One of the great when he started i started to watch tennis and now he is retired i also retired to see it. LOVE U.
OK...maybe not the GOAT in terms of playing career (Djokovic IMO, although he's my least favorite of the Big 3), but if you consider his impact to the game, his legacy, what he brought and what he means to the sport, there is no other like him. Greatest ambassador of tennis and arguably the greatest of any sport, most beloved wordwide, most admired/respected/imitated by his peers. He brought class, elegance, and excitement to the court all over the world.
And while his overall playing career doesn't match Djokovic, I'd argue that Fed had the best ~10 year period. He had a 40 slam period, starting 2003 until 2013, in which he accomplished:
- 17 GS titles, 24 finals, 33 semifinals, 38 QF (again, this is out of 40!)
- 10 consecutive finals
- 23 consecutive semifinals
- 36 consecutive QF
This level of consistency is absolutely amazing.
Incredible that just goes to show how he was and is as a player
It could be 23 consecutive finals if he had not lost that semifinal match..
You will never find such gentleman again like roger what a Example 2 young children young kids luv him so much as player and a person bring tear to my eyes He is a legend of the game will never see you again. Good luck to future 😢❤❤
Will miss this composed and elegant style of play
Incredible talent! Super tennisman!
When he is in his groove.. he becomes a treasure box.. we will never know what shot will come out next to surprise the opponent and spectators together. He did that all with effortless looking fluid style..
Greatest of all time in terms of play style no one better to watch
Pitch Perfect Model Tennis Player. I will survive his retirement that he announced with all the style and personality as his showed in his play.
A classy goodbye.
Thanks for the great moments of amazing tennis 🎾 😍
Class act and a beautiful thing to watch when he was in the zone, which was most of the time. The one thing, that by in large goes unnoticed, is how he watches the ball through contact. Most players are looking to where they hope the ball will go before making contact. It's a millisecond difference but I'd be curious to know how this possibly helped him to play at the level he did.
yes - that millisecond of literally watching the ball onto the strings is often the difference between good great shots and 'miracle' shots that seem to come from no where - i can definitely attest to experiencing that in both tennis and squash that when i watched the ball onto the strings everything was effortless (body, foot placement, swing ) and timing was just spot on -
So much class! It didn't feel like 10 mins! Thank you Roger, your magic will be missed.
Nadal and Djokovic make tennis look difficult, and indeed it is a tough sport.
Federer made tennis look easy and casual.
That's why he is my favorite tennis player of all time. Love you Roger ❤️
Other people have to learn their shots. Roger created them, imagined them. He knows exactly how he wants the ball to fly and how to move the racket to get it to happen, no matter how he's positioned. It's hard to describe how different it is to watch him than anyone else. It's something about his timing and footwork and how early he takes every shot that means he almost never looks like he's reaching for the ball or caught on the back foot.
The elegance,the class,the perfection Roger brought to the sport is just unmatchable🐐🐐🐐
I like his backhand drop shot. It’s more beautiful than any other players