Is Federer past it? 29/3/2008

That is the question that everyone in the tennis world is currently trying to answer. Lots of journalists have written articles (or blogs) trying to get down to the root of the problem (!!), but a lot of people argue that his peak might have gone and the only way, from the amazing standards the great swiss tennis player has set for himself, is downwards.

Of course it m ight be up to him to rectify the situation. Two months into the season, as Mike Mcintyre from the Pro Tennis Fan blogshpere points out www.protennisfan.com, and he is yet to win a title. Actually he is yet to compete to a final after another disappointing loss to wild card entrant to the Indian Wells in Miami, american Mardy Fish. And it was not only the fact that he lost but also the fact that he lost two sets to love with the almost embarassing scoreline of 6-2, 6-3.

Coming into the season the man himself clarified but his big goal for the season, his subsequent "holy grail" is the French Open th one that has slipped away from him many times in recent seasons. Of course everyone was almost certain that he would pass Pete Sampras's all time grand slam record of 14 titles, currently being on 11 but at this stage no one would bet on it. Maybe a small indication of the amazing consistency and class of the great american who dominated courts in the 90s.

Personally I keep thinking that come the time to play on clay he will start hitting the form we all know he can achieve and perhaps triumph in Roland Garros, he will come good in tennis's equivalent of football's business end of the season. But of course this is just my hunch of how things might go because reality seems a bit (if not a lot different).

The Independent's Derrick Whyte- http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/tennis says that Roger Federer after his humiliating defeat conceded that the way Fish played on the day hye was unplayable. Of course we are talking about mardy Fish no 98 in the world and a man who has won more than 200 titles so needless to say that Federer suffers from a long standing loss of form.

This was the year he could go in the record books in Wimbledon as well so I guess it is up to him to pull his sleeves up and woe the adoring tennis public with masterful preformances but more importantly make sure he finishes the job he, with his hard work and talent of course started a few years ago, become the bset tennis player of all time.