Filed under: Australian Open, ATP
MELBOURNE, Australia - This is not a defining moment for Roger Federer. It looks like one, but it isn't. It is a failed moment.
The new Federer had been reconfigured for aggressiveness and attack. No more sitting back, floating backhands and getting pushed around by the big, modern players.
It had been working, too, in all the tournaments since the U.S. Open.
But the majors are the real test, of course. And Federer didn't just lose to Novak Djokovic Thursday in the Australian Open semifinals. He was steamrolled, 7-6 (7-3), 7-5, 6-4.
The problem was that after that first set, after 57 minutes of tennis as intense as you will see, something happened.
Source: http://tennis.fanhouse.com/2011/01/27/roger-federer-australian-open-loss-tennis-legacu/
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