holy crap I didn't even realize that the two Italian finalists are well into their 30's as well. shows how much attention I pay to the WTA. party at the Pantheon tonight!
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Originally Posted by polak
Federer never really dropped off the map. He never even fell out of the top 8 and that was only for a couple of seasons, which happened to also coincide with his daughters being born. I doubt that is a coincidence. It would be more like if Jagr had consistently competed for the Art Ross and then had kids and had his production regress slightly for a couple seasons but still maintained top 10 status in the league and then managed to pick it up again and invent a new type of wrist shot in the process! Roger is a pimp.
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yeah I should have elaborated more instead of just leaving it as a question. if you take the progression purely at face value, i.e. a former world #1 athlete appears to start a decline entering his 30's, drops to his lowest ranking in a decade at age 32, but a couple of years later is nearly back on top, that might sound like a suspicious case. and it would be, if Roger was suddenly engaging in 20+ shot rallies over 5 sets and somehow physically outlasting Djokovic in a game of pong.
but instead he's actually playing as little tennis as humanly possible, ending matches in half the time many of the other guys are taking. it's perfect old man tennis that still requires elite reflexes and hand eye coordination, things that cannot be boosted by roids. I have no doubt he's cleaner than a NASA lab, but it does require some knowledge of what he's doing in order to understand why.