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Post by RogiFan on Sept 20, 2004 13:45:18 GMT -5
 My sis figured they w go to Rodeo Drive for shopping, at least Mirka anyway!  Wonder if Rogi did his fashion spread for Vogue?
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Post by freudo on Nov 23, 2004 9:45:57 GMT -5
Roj is my favorite, so came here to see what you have going on. I see a lot! Will look around. I took to Roger early and watched his confidance build. Now its the biggest bandwagon I've ever been part of |
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Post by The Chloe on Nov 23, 2004 18:55:51 GMT -5
I had never really noticed how booming this forum was before. THere are people in here that I've never even heard of! Doris? Who's that! Oh, I kid |
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Post by RogiFan on Dec 8, 2004 12:15:50 GMT -5
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Post by freudo on Dec 11, 2004 9:26:41 GMT -5
Federer in league of his own
Swiss star dominating top rivals on tour
Roger Federer's dominance has left the other top players in men's tennis without answers when facing the Swiss star, says Bud Collins of NBCSports.com.
COMMENTARY
By Bud Collins
NBC Sports
Updated: 7:41 p.m. ET Dec. 8, 2004NEW YORK -
Heading into 2005, Roger Federer finds himself astride the men's tennis world that he has pounded into a lopsided shape favoring himself. That was the message Federer all too painfully sent to the other top players over the course of the 2004 season.
Fitting finish
Federer put an exclamation point on that message at the 35th edition of the Masters, the year-end showdown for the men's tennis elite.
Pity Lleyton Hewitt, Andy Roddick, Marat Safin, Carlos Moya, Tim Henman, Guillermo Coria and Gaston Gaudio.
They were merely Roger’s seven dwarfs.
Maybe Roger, the “Basel Dazzle,” wasn’t Snow White, but he made his serfs seem lost in a blizzard.
This was the second straight year Federer closed out a season with a dazzling display of tennis at the Masters.
Two years, 10 matches, 10 wins, and so gracious.
Federer has just done everything right.
On another level
Hewitt, who finished 2004 ranked third, said it best.
“Roger has raised the bar for us over the last 18 months. Does he have any weaknesses? I don’t think so. We’ll all just have to work harder.”
It appears that the big fight in 2005 among those dwarfed will be for the No. 2 ranking, held by Roddick at the end of 2004.
That prize would guarantee a tournament’s second seed, keeping the bearer as far away as possible, for as long as possible, from the inevitably top-seeded Federer.
Hewitt would have hurdled Roddick into the No. 2 slot if he had defeated Federer in the Masters final, which the Aussie lost 6-3, 6-2.
Hewitt might have even reclaimed No. 1 except for a disruptive presence -- Federer.
“I kept bumping into Roger,” he said at year's end.
On significant occasions, too: Australian Open fourth round, Wimbledon quarterfinals, U.S. Open final, German Open semifinals, Masters round-robin phase.
Federer won six straight over Hewitt, none of them particularly close.
As for Roddick, he has to be thinking it's back to the drawing board.
The American has had his own Federer problems: 0-3 in 2004, 1-8 career.
But who hasn't bowed to Federer on a consistent basis?
Federer has lost only six matches while winning 74, thus batting .925, the highest winning percentage since Ivan Lendl’s .925 in 1986 and John McEnroe’s .965 in 1984.
In 2004, Federer won 11th titles, the most since Thomas Muster racked up a dozen in 1995.
Federer's degree of dominance is most impressive as he has won every one of his last 13 finals.
Chasing history
Might Federer someday eclipse Pete Sampras’ monumental record of 14 singles majors, accomplished in 13 seasons between 1990 and 2002?
Well, Sampras had won five majors at age 23.
Federer, 23, has won four, and will shoot for a fifth at the Australian Open in January.
Neither Lendl nor McEnroe won three majors in one year as Federer did in 2004 (Australian Open, Wimbledon, and U.S. Open).
Mats Wilander did it in 1988, but failed in the Masters, losing in the round-robin.
Of the game’s big five (the majors plus the Masters), Federer won four in 2004.
Was Federer's year the finest since Rodney (Rocket) Laver’s Grand Slam of 1969, the year before the Masters was founded?
Certainly it is since 1974 when Jimmy Connors’ won the three majors he played (Australian Open, Wimbledon, and U.S. Open), and abstained from the Masters.
Federer, who went 18-0 during 2004 against so-called peers in the top ten, has won 23 straight matches against those lackeys.
Safin's back
Even though Federer has zoomed to his private stratosphere, the most startling rise and recovery in 2004 was that of the “Headless Horseman,” Marat Safin.
The volatile Russian kept his wayward head glued on most of the time, and climbed 73 lengths.
At the end of 2003, Safin was No. 77 and an injured left wrist had him wondering whether he could hit a ball again.
Safin gave Federer his toughest test at the end of 2004.
In the Masters semifinals, Safin dodged seven match points and held six set points in a colossal record-equaling tiebreaker, falling, 6-3, 7-6 (20-18).
Bjorn Borg won the first tiebreaker stretching to 20-18 while making his Wimbledon debut as a 17-year-old in 1973.
His victim was Indian Premjit Lall.
Twenty years later at the U.S. Open, Goran Ivanisevic did a 20-18 job to beat Canadian Danny Nestor.
Looking ahead
Hewitt is openly revved up for the 2005 Australian Open.
He has always wanted to win his country’s title, but this one would be special as it is the 100th anniversary of the tournament.
As for Federer, he just wants to keep this up as long as he can.
That’s not very good news for the rest of the crowd, transformed to dwarfs by Federer's magical touch.
In 2005, Hewitt and the other top men must find answers for Federer’s serve, his sliced backhand, bludgeoning forehand, angled volleys and the effortless moves that quickly close openings.
Australia is known for its oysters, but the world is Federer’s tasty oyster, and it looks as though he’ll dine alone in the coming campaign.
© 2004 MSNBC Interactive
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Post by IHatePeopleWhoHaveLongNames on Dec 11, 2004 15:17:26 GMT -5
I am now watching ZDF (German tv channel) Rogi is there.
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Post by RogiFan on Dec 11, 2004 22:21:57 GMT -5
 RonE! Welcome to the Rogi section -- we could use some new Rogi fans here since not much happens unless I post more reasons to love him!!  Not enough Rogi fans on this board, so the more, the merrier! And so cool for you and Mrs. B. to meet up! Are you missing Rogi [altho, lucky you, you saw him on that show today]? If you get any news of Rogi, feel free to post here!
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Post by freudo on Dec 12, 2004 8:29:26 GMT -5
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Post by Brinyi on Dec 21, 2004 22:37:27 GMT -5
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Post by Doris on Mar 16, 2005 7:00:56 GMT -5
Wow it's been ages since I've been here last!!! Sort of lost the link and then I wasn't able to get to the site... ...good to see it's still running and who knows maybe I get to know the new members as well sometime |
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Post by TennisHack on Mar 16, 2005 13:38:38 GMT -5
Hey Doris, long time no see! How are you doing? |
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Post by Doris on Mar 18, 2005 9:20:16 GMT -5
Doing fine thanks and you??
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Post by TennisHack on Mar 18, 2005 12:25:32 GMT -5
I'm okay, quite busy at the moment. I'm waiting for it to warm up  Even though this winter was not as bad as last year's, it has still stretched unbearably long into March. |
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Post by RogiFan on Mar 23, 2005 14:46:14 GMT -5
 DEUCE Magazine March 18, 2005 DEUCE Magazine Exclusive Preview Roger Federer: The Making of a Global Ambassadorby Mark Mathabane ©Clive Brunskill /Getty Images DEUCE, the ATP's official magazine, is now being published on a quarterly basis. The first issue will be available in late March. To order a subscription to the world's hottest tennis magazine, call toll free 866-66-DEUCE or email deuce@skies.com. Just $18.95 buys four full-color action-packed issues. Check back at ATPtennis.com for more exclusive content from DEUCE. From DEUCE, Spring 2005: There's little doubt that Roger Federer, blessed with one of the most complete games in tennis history, and possessing a mental toughness so demoralizing to his opponents that it enables him to effortlessly, so it seems, snatch victory from the jaws of defeat, has the potential to become the best player of all-time. It's a potential certified by the keen eyes of such legends as Rod Laver and John McEnroe. More important, it's a potential that has already yielded a remarkable harvest. Since turning professional in 1998, the 24-year-old superstar from Oberwil, Switzerland, has achieved and solidified the ATP World No. 1 ranking, bagged four Grand Slam titles, captured 25 singles titles and garnered an astonishing 16 consecutive finals wins on all surfaces on which the game is played. But little is known about Roger's other important potential. It's one that, if cultivated with as much passion as he's done his near flawless shot-making, is capable of transforming him into one of the game's most effective global ambassadors. This potential in Roger is best illustrated by revealing the human being behind the superstar. That's what I sought to do when, shortly before the beginning of the Pacific Life Open, I asked him to talk about why he's inspired by the different cultures of the world, and why he feels compelled to use his fame to make a difference in the lives of the poor and less fortunate. He eagerly obliged. “I always enjoy talking this way,” he said, flashing a smile that illumined his playful brown eyes, “instead of always about my tennis.” Roger began talking fervently about a trip he'd recently made to South Africa, a country where I, and his mother Lynette, were born and raised, incredibly, only about a mile or so apart. But because of apartheid, a political system that mandated the strict segregation of the races, we grew up in circumstances so vastly different we might as well have been denizens of separate planets. Apartheid led Lynette to leave South Africa in 1973 for Switzerland, where Roger was born in Basel on August 8, 1981; it also drove me in 1978, at age 18, to search for freedom and opportunity in America, when Stan Smith, the 1971 Wimbledon champion, helped me get a tennis scholarship. Roger pointed out that he'd visited South Africa with his parents many times as a child during the apartheid era: to see relatives, to go on safari, and to visit Cape Town, one of the loveliest cities in the world. But he admitted that he'd never been to ghettos like the one I grew up in. Yes, he'd seen the teeming and squalid shacks without running water or electricity from a distance, and he wondered what kind of people lived in such awful places, what their lives were really like, and how they survived. On his latest visit he found out. Through the 1-year-old Roger Federer Foundation, which has partnered with Imbewu (a Xhosa word for “seed”), an organization of Swiss and South African volunteers, he journeyed to New Brighton, Port Elizabeth. It is one of the most impoverished and overcrowded ghettos in South Africa, where violence, disease and AIDS are maiming and killing countless lives, and where it's not uncommon to see children scavenging for food at garbage dumps to stay alive, like I used to do growing up in a shack in Alexandra, a one-square-mile Johannesburg ghetto which now has a population of more than 500,000 people. The partnership provides 30 children in three schools with uniforms, stationery and two meals a day. In addition, Roger's foundation pays the salaries of three full-time social workers at the local Imbewu. Read More: Subscribe to DEUCE Magazine Today! Email: deuce@skies.com Toll Free: 866-66-DEUCE www.atptennis.atponline.net/en/newsandscores/news/2005/deuce_exclusive_1.asp
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Post by Brinyi on Mar 5, 2009 13:12:13 GMT -5
Federer gets a coach
TOM TEBBUTT
Globe and Mail Update
March 4, 2009 at 7:02 PM EST
The often discussed union of Roger Federer and well-established coach Darren Cahill appears to be coming to fruition.
Globesports.com has learned that Federer is currently in Dubai training with Cahill. It is apparently a trial arrangement with nothing set in terms of a signed agreement.
Federer, who parted ways with Peter Lundgren of Sweden as coach in July, 2003, and then Tony Roche of Australia in May, 2007, has gone for long periods during his most successful years without a coach. More than half his 13 Grand Slam titles were won when he did not have a coach.
The last two years, the Swiss Davis Cup captain, Severin Luthi, has usually travelled with Federer, but never been officially listed as his coach.
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Post by GoDom on Mar 5, 2009 14:00:02 GMT -5
I never noticed there's a Federer forum. :red:
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My sis figured they w go to Rodeo Drive for shopping, at least Mirka anyway! 
Even though this winter was not as bad as last year's, it has still stretched unbearably long into March.