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I think that was Federer's last realistic chance of Olympic Gold. So believe me he tried his hardest all right. He just got outplayed by a better player on the day.
Oh dear.It's sad really. data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7
Fair point. He was very poor though and almost unrecognisable
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Of course Roger Federer shouldn't quit. It was a freak loss. Federer is a much tennis player than yer man who beat him (can't even remember his name!). 99 times out if 100 yer mans tactics wouldn't have worked.
Also... I noticed he pulled out for the next game data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7 Hardly surprising. If he gave so much effort every game perhaps he'd be top 100; his body probably wasn't used to trying to hard data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7
Paying as much attention as usual then, stakhovsky beat federer and lost his next match, he didnt retire. It was darcis who beat nadal who had to retire in the next round data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7
SB - it's becoming increasingly pointless replying to your posts but I know you partly do it on purpose
Did you even see the match? It wasn't a 'freak' at all
I repeat; Federer is in decline and has been for some time, which is only natural. He has only won 1 of the last 14 GS. He clearly loves the sport and nobody has the right to take that away from him. But I hope he steps down with grace rather than becoming a 30 something year old who enters tournaments all year round and gets knocked out early on. It'll tarnish his reputation
He's not in that much of a decline. You don't go from winning gran slams to going out in the early rounds in a year!
Federer is still a great player! I did think that this was his last chance of realistically winning a Wimbledon though. It's going to be increasingly difficult now that he's past his peak - still not impossible though!