Roger Federer is not only looking forward to the Laver Cup in Berlin from September 20th to 22nd, 2024. No, the maestro is of course also following the ATP tour, as in the detailed interview with South German newspaper from Thursday could be read.
von tennisnet.com
last edited: February 9, 2024, 1:50 p.m
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Roger Federer at the 1000 in Shanghai in autumn 2023
Roger Federer and Andrey Rublev have only played against each other once. And it cannot be assumed that the Swiss maestro spontaneously defected to the Russian’s fan camp after the 3:6 and 4:6 in Cincinnati 2019. But sometimes the situation dictates new alliances. And at the Australian Open 2024 the time had come, as Federer said in the big interview with the South German newspaper revealed.
Federer literally: “If the Australian Alex de Minaur had defeated the Russian Andrey Rublev, then Stefanos Tsitsipas would have moved out of the top ten. Then, for the first time in tennis history, no one with a one-handed backhand would have been in the top ten. As a player with a one-handed backhand, I would have “Hoped Rublev would win to keep the streak going with the one-handed backhand. It worked.”
Wawrinka, Thiem, Dimitrov as Federer’s comrades-in-arms
However, the situation is critical: Tsitsipas is in tenth position in the current ATP charts, the gap to the back is small and the Greek is not in action this week. “Help” with one-handed backhands could come from Grigor Dimitrov. The Bulgarian is currently ranked 13th in the world. is currently playing in Marseille. The next candidate with a one-handed backhand is Lorenzo Musetti, who, however, has not played in such a way in the recent past that one would expect an obvious entry into the upper echelon of tennis.
During Federer’s active time there were several competitors in this regard: from Stan Wawrinka, Dominic Thiem and Dimitrov to Richard Gasquet. At some point, this golden streak in professional tennis will come to an end.
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