The unknown Roger Federer
I think it’s about time I gave the most famous of our users a little mention. I get so used to him just cruising through the draws that I just get into the habit of not paying too much attention to his almost inevitable victories. “Oh, Roger won today? So what else is new?” Somehow his success gets to be expected rather than cause any great excitement. We only pay attention when we are shocked by a loss. Something like the World Trade Center. We look up to it when we first come face to face with it - but if we see it every day we cease to be amazed and just expect it to be there towering above everything around it tomorrow and the day after that and…. It’s only when it isn’t that we are stunned into attention.
But it seems that Roger (Alu Power Rough and Wilson Natural Gut) is becoming aware of the lack of recognition and is taking matters into his own hands.
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As well as putting his initials on his shoes and clothing, he is now getting the word out by way of a little extra publicity on his racquets.
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Good on yer, Rog, you’re an agent’s and sponsor’s dream!
By the way, he won today against Mario Ancic of Croatia 6-3 6-4 6-2. But you had assumed that already, hadn’t you…?
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David Ferrer of Spain had to work a little harder than Roger today to earn a win over Lleyton Hewitt of Australia. It took 5 sets and a comeback from 2 sets to 1 down to overcome the feisty little Ozzie 6-2 3-6 3-6 6-3 6-4.
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But it was Katerina Srebotnik of Slovenia (Alu Power 125) who caused the upset of the tournament so far by ending Serena William’s hopes of taking the title with a convincing straight sets win - 6-4 6-4 over teh 5th seeded player. Seeded 27, she was not given much of a chance to win but played a brilliant match and throughly deserved her victory. She will meet Patty Schnyder of Switzerland in the 4th round.
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Unseeded Kaia Kanepi of Estonia (Alu Power 125) also earned her place in the 4th round with an ‘against-the-odds’ win over the 29th seed Anabel Medina Garrigues of Spain. She won the first set 6-1 but narrowly missed taking the match in straight sets as a result of losing a tie-break 7-6(5). She kept her composure to win the 3rd set 7-5 for the chance to play Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic in the 4th round.