Come Sunday night, Roger Federer should be buying Robin Soderling a drink, a car, something after doing the biggest favour the second seeded champion could have hoped for: conquering Rafael Nadal at Roland Garros.
With Nadal out of the tournament, this gives Federer the opportunity to take out the only Grand Slam he has not won and complete his career Grand Slam.
Not that Federer will have it his own way. He still needs to play some good tennis to lift the trophy at tournament’s end.
His likely run to the final is:
Haas
Monfils
Tsonga or Del Potro
then Murray in the final
He’s a very good chance of getting to the final. But winning it will be another matter. Murray has had the wood on Federer, winning their last two clashes. However, Federer smashed Murray in three straight sets in the US Open Final last year at Flushing Meadows.
Federer has not had it all his own way in this tournament, either, giving up a set in his previous two rounds. Jose Acasuso pushed him in four sets and then he gave up a set to local player, and 32nd seed, Paul-Henri Mathieu.
As a tennis junkie, I have always been a fan of Federer. He’s a throw back to a day when backhands were still one handed and you served and volleyed on grass.
I’ll be cheering him all the way.
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