Sometimes the most remembered statements are made in defeat. Breaking down during the presentation ceremony of Australian Open 2010, Andy Murray said: “I can cry like Roger, it's just a shame I can't play like him…” The question is, can anybody play like Roger Federer? Given that he has been beaten a few times in the past, with some people too eager to write about 'the end of an era', it is still mighty Roger who forces them to re-write the history of tennis.www.batchmates.com/bmtimes/returnimageBMTimes.aspx
There seems to be a very palpable difference between Federer and others – predecessors, contemporaries and what he himself calls 'a new generation'. Roger Federer seems to be immune (touchwood) while evrybody else seems to suffer from some vulnerability or the other. It is only natural. The truth is even he has his setbacks and moments of reckoning. But he also has nerves of steel and a determination that is almost frightening for lesser mortals. "I always knew I had it in my hand. The question is (did) I have it in my mind and in my legs," Federer said after extending his record to 16 Grand Slams, two more than Sampras and ten more than nearest current challenger Rafael Nadal