The Olympic Games has always interested sportsman from various sectors and avenues. They have always preferred making a chance to participate at the Olympics as they feel it will earn them a lot of brownie points and improve their ranking and status. Most of the tennis players are no exception to this rule and they feel that it is a sense of pride to have won a medal at the Olympics.
However, Roger Federer himself has actually thought of it and has realized that winning the ATP events like that of the Indian Wells which he recently accomplished, can actually go on to improve his popularity among the tennis circuit. Earning fame from these events is equally strong as those of the Olympics. People need to realize the importance of their game play and no matter whichever avenue o tournament they participate in, the end result is always good if one can remain focused.
Roger Federer is a six times Wimbledon champion and hence to go about [proclaiming that the legacy of Federer is more crucial than that of a Wimbledon tournament is highly non-sensical and illogical. One avenue which Roger Federer needs to improve in is the fact that he has not yet scored a single gold at the singles event and this would actually help him improve his ratings and career ranking if he wins this achievement.
Trying to come to agreement to the terms that a single Olympic Event is enough to state that Roger Federer gains the best ever label is highly uncertain. A player’s worth is not decided by just a single huge event. It might help him to get a little higher for a while, but if there is no consistency in the performance all the fame dies down.
The world number 3 Roger Federer is back in form again after defeating British Andy Murray in the finals of Dubai Duty Free ATP Tour Tennis Tournament. The former world number 1 is back amongst winning streak, and won his fifth title in Dubai on Saturday. His upcoming Tours includes Indian Wells and Miami and he wants to focus one at a time. He refuses to think about Wimbledon, Olympics or the US Open which is due in August. The Swiss star is in great form after winning 5 out of the 7 ATP s he has played in. His last titles coming within a week and he has not even dropped a set and 8 of the top ten players made the starting line-up.
Federer believes that once you are on a winning note then all the problems begins to vanish. There are no criticisms and the confidence comes back. He claims that he has played well in the Dubai series and also the one he played at Rotterdam a week before.
When he was asked by the scribes on why he refused to play an exhibition match with Rafael Nadal in Spain, he looked a bit hesitant. He says that he did not refuse the match but it did not match his dates. The match did not work out because of the tight schedule. The match was supposed to be held somewhere between the Wimbledon and the Olympics, he said. . He feels that in the coming future there can be an exhibition match, if the dates tally.
Top British tennis player Andy Murray is hungry for a Grand Slam success this season and is willing to go to any extent to fulfill his Grand Slam ambitions and become the first British player to win a Major title in singles in the last few decades.
Murray has always faced criticism from the media and former players in his homeland for not getting his hands on the coveted Grand Slam title despite being in the top five in the ATP world rankings for the last few years on a consistent basis.
Murray even lost in three Grand Slam finals and has almost become the ‘nearly man’ of world tennis for reaching three finals and semi finals of the Major events without winning a single title. He even appointed former Grand Slam winner Ivan Lendl ahead of the Australian Open last December with the aim to improve his game and according to the world number four, the former world number one has already improved his game drastically with his approach.
Speaking to the media about the impact of Ivan Lendl, Andy Murray said that they only had five days ahead of the first Grand Slam of the year and in spite of the little time span, he helped a lot in his techniques and approach. One thing that Murray has in common with the Czech Maestro is that Lendl lost his first four Grand Slam finals before he turned it around to win eight Major titles in his career and Murray hopes that Lendl will be able to help him psychologically about his mindset in the final of a Major event.
It now waits to be seen whether Andy Murray can reach the heights that were expected of him when he burst on to the scene as a fresh youngster almost 6 years back now.
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April 30, 2012 9:09 am | 
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