Roger Federer

[Annie]

[yse]

admin said:

I found this for you
Translation for the Eurosport interview ;D

Journalist: How did you come to this hotel? I do not know the house at all. Why do you live here?

Federer ( (¨,) ): This is already the second year I have booked here a suite. It is a very quiet and comfortable hotel. A former president of Switzerland told us about this hotel. We have launched " the year of the sport " at that time and he has stayed two days here. And since that time we have liked it very well. A Swiss general manager is natural also always here and, once, we feel very well.

Journalist: Is that the same suite like in the year before, are you superstitious in these things?
Fed: The suite is the same (equal), but it was on another floor. it is not the same. But I am not also a superstitious person.

Journ: An intimate question: " Boris Becker has told that he only had to sleep before important match always in a space. " How is that with you, are you rather takes it easy what concerns this thing?


Fed said that in 2001 (Wimbledon) they did not know each other very well so he asked her "so are we going to sleep together in the same room or just in the same place?" and she said that he would stay in the bed alone (loool) and she would stay in the floor next to him. She stay there the all tournment. But now they sleep obviously together!
"Now everything is normal. We divide the bed, the bathroom and so on… "

Journalist: Everything looks very small here, but finely. And I find it also not necessarily frightfully ostentatious, right?

Fed: Ye, that was what I said before. here in New York the rooms are very small of course.

Journalist: How is that, actually, with the payment? Does your one certain subsidy of the organizer agree, or how runs now, for instance, with you?


Fed: Every player from the major gets 150 to 200 dollars of subsidy per night. In the qualification, perhaps, a little bit less. Then one can select at which hotel one wants to spend the night. If one is economical more, one simply pays extra. I hold that, actually, for a good deal because the players can decide themselves at which hotel they want to live, because there is a big choice of player's hotels.With normal tournaments one says to himself: " You remain at this hotel, no choice. " Fortunately, the persons responsible of the US Open (because is number one) leave me a little bit more elbowroom. This is very obliging from the tournament managers.

Jornalist: How was like former when one was still with the coach on a room and the did not flow yet so? If one said to himself then rather: " Then we take this time, rather a pension? "?

Fed: Also I already have a room with other players, or the coach divided, or at smaller hotels slept. This was also very comfortable.
I have managed the step of the junior to the pro very fast.As a junior it was still taken over much from the Swiss tennis federation. This helped of course very much to save expenses.

Journalist: Your ex-coach, Peter Lundgren, has told to me once, you would have had a very worried sleep. Is this right?

Fed: Yes, that´s is right. I have no ideia where this come from. When I sleep, I hit always with my head in the cushion. I do this already from an early age.But luckily Mirka has said to me that I do this now no more. (He said something more but I don´t understand =) )

Journalist: He asks something about Art =P

Fed: Yes, I have been already here in New York in the "MoMa" (museum of Modern Art). I find art extremely interesting. During the next two weeks I would like to try to visit still other museums to have a look at one or other picture. The painting is already very impressive.

Journalist: What kind of music do you like?

Fed: I cannot say at all exactly. I hear the whole range. I have grown up with dance music, trance, ...

Journalist: Are you a bad (?) dancer?

Fed: I have not stayed so much in Night clubs ( =)))))))))) ). I do not dance rather. That´s probably what most man does. lol

=)*

[yse]

Federer is 'better-than-Tiger' good
Ian O'Connor / Special to FOXSports.com

The U.S. Open will revolve around Andre Agassi, for as long as he lasts, and then it will be about a star who will ultimately demote Agassi to Pluto status in his own ever-expanding galaxy.


"A living legend," Roger Federer called Agassi after beating him in four sets to win last year's Open. A living legend? Federer could tell you a thing or three about those. Retiring at 36, Agassi owns eight Grand Slam titles. Just brushing against the fringe of his prime at 25, Federer owns the same number and doesn't subscribe to the theory that eight is enough.

How good is Federer? Twice as good as Tiger Woods.

Woods has won four majors in the last four seasons, half as many as Federer has won since the start of 2003. But Tiger is the most recognizable athlete on the face of the earth. While Federer could still walk through Times Square and not inspire a fraction of the stir that would greet, say, Drew Lachey.

He doesn't seem to mind, either. Truth is, Federer's lack of star power — his failure to radiate it, whatever it is — doesn't make his domination of the men's game any less complete.

So as everyone makes an end-of-the-world fuss over Agassi early in the tournament, Federer is the overwhelming favorite to be the lead story of this Open at its final and finest hour.
"He plays the game in a very special way," Agassi said after Federer blitzed him, 6-1, in the last set of Andre's indelible 2005 Open.

Swiss star Roger Federer has become the Tiger Woods of men's tennis. (Brad Barket / Getty Images)

"I haven't seen it before. Pete (Sampras) was great. I mean, no question. But there was a place to get to with Pete. There's no such place with Roger. I think he's the best I've ever played against."

Federer is in position to smash Sampras' record of 14 Grand Slam titles the way Woods is in position to smash Jack Nicklaus' magic number of 18. The Swiss Can't Miss has won the last two Opens, beating Lleyton Hewitt in straight sets in 2004. This time around, Federer has a chance to win three of four majors in a calendar year for the second time in three seasons.

Only a heroic French Open effort from a raging Rafael Nadal, the Spaniard with the comic-book arms, prevented Federer from arriving in New York with a shot to win the calendar Grand Slam. If Nadal spreads his clay mastery across the grass and hard-court landscapes of his sport, Federer will have a legitimate obstacle to clear on his way to going down as the greatest tennis player of all time.

If that doesn't happen, Sampras and Rod Laver should be advised to duck.

"He's the only guy I've ever played against," Agassi had said, "where you hold serve to go up 1-0 and you're thinking, 'All right, good.' He can hurt you at any point. You're serving 30-love, (and) he wins the point. The pressure you feel at 30-15 is different than anybody else.

"You need to play the craziest tennis you've ever played (to beat him)."

Andy Roddick, at last a winner again at the Cincinnati Masters , doesn't appear capable of playing that kind of tennis, not anymore, anyway, and not even with an old fighter like Jimmy Connors now working his corner.

James Blake? Come on. He's never even reached a Grand Slam semifinal.

So it's Nadal and the other kids on the rise, the likes of Andy Murray and Gael Monfils, who either slow the Federer train or end up as flattened bugs on the windshield of high-speed fate.

Federer just lost in straight sets to Murray, the big-serving Scot, in Cincinnati, though the result was called into question by the respected CBS analyst, Mary Carillo, who accused Federer of tanking the match to get extra rest for the Open.
"He wasn't trying to beat Andy Murray that day," Carillo said.
"That's absurd," Federer responded. "I think what she said is a joke. Because I lose, I tanked?"
In a way, Carillo's remark was the ultimate compliment — to think that Federer is so ridiculously good, he only loses when he wants to.
Before falling to Murray, Federer hadn't lost in straight sets in 194 matches. He also lost a streak of 55 consecutive victories in North America and a run of 17 consecutive appearances in tournament finals.

Now he's about to rain on Andre Agassi's farewell parade. Old Man Agassi, burdened by a back injury, will be showered with love and affection at the close of his last match — more likely to unfold in the first week than the second.

Federer? He'll most likely strike the final winner of Agassi's final Open, and then spend the balance of the decade redefining what it means to be a living legend in a Grand Slam world.

Award-winning columnist Ian O'Connor is a regular contributor to FOXSports.com.
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Like Ahh-nold? (Schwarzenegger) I don't think so. I'm more into, in general, helping people. Like Muhammad Ali does for the world. Think about the world not only like 'God Bless America' sort of thing but God bless the world, because we're all together. We're living on the same world, you know? And not alone. Sometimes people forget. This is why we have fights all over the world. Of course you can't stop them, but still pick an issue, maybe in the future. Of course it goes into politics a little bit. Maybe. Who knows what I'll do? But I don't really see this sort of role. I'd like to be more of an ambassador."
-- Swiss Roger Federer on whether he would ever go into politics.

[yse]

[Annie]

yse said:

Roger baby, is that a ball in your pocket or are you just happy to see me? ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[emma]

admin said:

yse said:

Roger baby, is that a ball in your pocket or are you just happy to see me? ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Annie, Annie, Annie..... what am I gonna do with you ??
Stay away from tables

[alsl]

I love his new hair

[emma]

This is for Annie ;D

[Annie]

Thank you Emmochka

[yse]

[Annie]

mmmmmmmmmmmm ;D ;D ;D ;D

[Annie]

No suprises there, Roger is through to the next round after a straight set win over Spadea ;D ;D ;D

[Annie]

Some flying Roger

[efi]

oh roger can fly!
i love hiiiim !!!

[sabz]

Shame he said no, it could have been interesting

Federer rejects dream double

Roger Federer has declined an offer from rival and friend Rafael Nadal to team up in doubles next month at the Madrid Masters. Nadal put the idea to Federer during preparations for the US Open last week, but after giving the idea consideration, the world number one has decided to play safe.

Federer said that he needs to keep his fitness in mind ahead of Davis Cup ties and November's season-ending Masters Cup in Shanghai.

If he were to consider playing doubles, Federer said they would be with Davis Cup compatriot Yves Allegro, with whom he occasionally pairs for Switzerland.

"It was a nice idea of Rafael's and it would be a great promotion for tennis," said Federer.

"But I just never play doubles at the end of the season, and, if I did, it would be with Yves."

Federer and Nadal, ranked number two, have dominated tennis for the past two seasons, contesting five finals in 2006, with Federer winning the last one at Wimbledon.