1/3/2023 0 Comments Tennis world tour final 2014However, don't expect the drop to be permanent. Murray's stock has dropped an inch or two given the manner of his defeats. Open finalist, who dictated with a crunching forehand and beautifully executed two-handed backhand.Ī win against Milos Raonic opened the door to the semi-finals, but Federer slammed it shut. The 27-year-old was limp against the U.S. The previous lesson might have come against Nishikori. In his column for BBC Sport, Murray described defeat to the world No. In London, he had to use all the energy that remained to stop Federer shoving him off of it.Ī 6-0, 6-1 defeat might constitute a serious drop, but it would be hard to level too many accusations at a man who won three tournaments in less than two months just to be in the reckoning. We are privileged to be living in their time.Murray pushed himself to the edge in order to qualify for the Finals. Djokovic, meanwhile, is close to his peak of 2011 - he played so well here as to near enough ruin his group, before, last afternoon, was given a shock, responding with the donation of a bagel. Federer is hard to beat indoors, the variety of his game has improved since linking up with Stefan Edberg, and the buzz of his escape yesterday still lingers in his synapses. This evening, for our pleasure, Roger Federer will play Novak Djokovic, both brilliant like nothing has ever been brilliant before and near enough unimprovable the majestic sweep of Beethoven’s Fifth versus the rhythmic, scurrying gymnastics of Fool’s Gold.Īnd though we know, definitively, which is historically and currently superior, we do not know how that will work out tonight. Sometimes, though, sport lets us actually see. Things become particularly fraught and overwrought when distinguishing between various perfections Luger’s porterhouse, say, and McCoy’s Chilli, Middlemarch and The Beano. Who’s the greatest director, what’s the best song ever written, which would you rather, fingers made of razor blade or a tongue with no tastebuds. Preamble The profession of bantz has many aspects, but a staple is the comparison of incomparables and ranking of unrankables.
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