Also, this moron's (
@MikeOne) evidence is 10 volleys in a Youtube video highlighting the best volleys in a career of a player who literally hit tens of thousands of them. Mike, you idiot, it's a highlight of the 10 best volleys...it's not going to show you a straightforward approach followed by an easy put-away volley. My God you're dumb.
when you get this vicious personally insulting me, i know i have you locked in, in a rage, cause i'm getting the better of you. Try and at least show respect, i'm not insulting you. You are acting like a little kid, an angry man.. is life that bad broken?
go look at more of them, out of those thousands, hundreds and hundreds were like the one he hit vs Djokovic. Federer has not hit perfectly struck approaches in most of the thousands of volleys he has hit. 101 in tennis is that winning at the net is also about putting pressure on opponents, heard of the chip and charge? many of those chips are mediocre and volleyers do not hit incredible approaches most of the time, this is a FACT, not even my opinion. For anyone who has watched tennis, they would know this.
the problem here is not that Federer hit such a garbage approach, it was when he hit it. Had he hit that approach in a regular match, 1st round, 2nd round or in a smaller tournament, no-one would even say anything. Federer most likely wins that point more than 50% of the time as it is simply not easy to pass Federer at the net unless it's a drop lob... That was far from an easy passing shot, especially in that situation. Once again, part of the strategy of coming to the net, is to put pressure, force opponent to make the shot. THIS IS BASIC FREAKING STUFF! So players, even greats, will come in behind average approaches. Ideally, the approach is perfectly struck, it seldom is!
We can continue playing this game, keep looking at youtube volleys, there is one video that shows 50 volleys, go look. Show me where Federer has been hitting super deep, super hard approaches every time, it's a lie. All this is coming from the fact that that was a huge moment in the match, against Djokovic, up match points. With 20/20 hindsight, as Djokovic made the shot, Federer should've done something else but Djokovic could've easily missed that shot, under pressure and everyone would be cheering Federer win. Djokovic made the pass, Djokovic won and now the lie is = Federer always hits perfect approaches. The evidence is NOT THERE... All we have to do is look at the thousands of volleys Federer has won, MANY MANY off avg. or even poor approaches.
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