Roger won in a marathon match, now he is back at being number one in the world and the only man to win 15 Grand Slams in history.

Bravo Roger you are the best!

Aw bummer. I would always root for the American and the poor guy has lost 3 times now and Roger has won many times. Oh well, what can you do That just the way the tennis ball bounces.

[quote][Roger is a great player but so are many others. If Rafa had been in the tournament he still would have been #1. I'm just not a huge Roger fan nor was I a Sampras fan. I guess I like my tennis players with a bit a fire in their belly. Roger and Pete are too laid back for me./quote]

Roger is the best player ever, if Roger wouldn't have had the bout with mono he wouldn't have loss his number one ranking, for over six months he wasn't himself, until now that he is back as Roger Federer the greatest, the genius in the tennis court, there are some very good players but by the record books he is considered right now as the greatest one to play the game of tennis.

I love Roger, my husband and I are great fans of his, we like and enjoy other players but not as much as Roger. I love his finesse and elegance in the court, his cool demure has not match.

I agree with you Canear! It was such an amazing game - at times I couldn't watch & had to hope the neighbour's screams would give me a clue to what happened (they were obviously cheering on Andy too), & it was heartwrenching watching Andy's interview at the end, as you said, such a gracious loser & he seemed so very sincere too.

I did miss the 3rd set - I had to go pick my Mum up as she had been to a very posh garden party! Hehehe - I ran in the marquee, shovered her over my shoulder, chucked her in the front seat & when I got to her flat just pressed the ejector seat button
so I didn't miss too much of the tennis!
Must give her a ring to see if she had a good time.........

HA!!! Don't let Sky see that!! She will be looking to do that!!!!!!!!!!

Boy your Mum has a lot of spunk Drifty!!

I feel so bad for Andy. He worked his ass off that match and still didn't win. ugh this is going to be killer for him. He needs to talk to Andre Agassi and i say this cause i don't want this match to have a negative effect on Andy which it could. I believe he should talk to Andre cause Andre will understand what Andy is feeling. You remember in 1995 when Andre lost to Sampras in the US Open final. That match was haled one of the best in Tennis history because it went 5 sets and it was amazing tennis. Yes it was amazing but the loss was such a down thing for Andre,(he had won everything that summer and that loss to Pete was the first loss for him for a long time), that is seriously depressed him and it really screwed things up for him in 1996. He did well at the Olympics but nothing else 96 and 97 were bad years,(he fell to 197 in the world). That loss to Pete made him doubt himself and his tennis. It took a long time to get him centered in the game again and of course when he did come back totally he was amazing and refocused. I am afraid the same doubt can creep into Andy's thoughts cause of this match with Roger. The doubt of never being able to beat Roger when it counts and so on. I really think Andre could help in keeping Andy positive and not going down the doubt road.

ETA: Congrats to Roger. Sampras and Borg were both there to see this match! Pete is no longer the greatest and in a way I bet that stings a little. That was Pete's claim to fame. He doesn't have all four Grand slams like Agassi and Federer have and he now doesn't have the most titles.

I am not a huge Sampras fan and it made me so happy when Andre got the French Open cause he would finally have something over Pete Sampras. He now has two things over Sampras. A french title and A Golden Career slam,(They call it golden cause he also has the Olympic Gold Medal).

Shannon :angel3:

This is a really HUGE deal here! My hubby and sons are very excited about this!!

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=290723104

Is anyone watching the tennis US Open?

Just saw Kim Clusters beat out V Williams to go to the semi-finals. What a wonderful victory for her!

They have Andy's last match on now. Woot!!!

ETA: BOO!!!!! My Andy lost.

I know. Poor Andy. Tough year. I am evil and I am happy whenever either of the Williams girls get beat by somebody new

(nothing personal against them - I am just tired of them )

It's understandable FC.

I get tired of them too half the time.

They're both still quite strong though so they deserve to be hanging around at the top. But it certainly is very nice to see others have their chance and their moment in the spotlight. Everyone should have that at least once.

That's the way I feel. It is just so nice to see some other people have that winning moment instead of the same over and over again.

Now mind you in the 90s when the Bulls won the NBA Championship 6 times I did NOT feel the same way!

LOL FC!!!!!

Well the same can be said for me my Lakers!!!!!!!!

So does anyone have the scoop on today's tennis events? I missed everything because of work. Although, I did catch a little of the women's match this morning.

No - I was busy with stuff and we were grilling and my BIL is over and I didn't have it on. Sorry.

I do know that some 17 year old USA girl is killing everybody!