Two Things Roger Federer Can Do Better Than Anyone Else. It is the year 2.

Roger Federer, and He is about to play in the Wimbledon final for the 1. He has yet to drop a set.

The seven- time champ cut down Tomas Berdych, 7- 6(4), 7- 6(4), 6- 4 to earn that spot, and, along the way, distilled his genius into two tidy vials. If you want to know why grown adults empty their bowels while watching this man play a ball game on a lawn, and you don’t feel like wading through our tedious archive of stanning or skimming that DFW banger you’ve been fed a thousand times (you should anyway), just watch these self- contained gems, each of which played out in real time.

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Above all else Federer is known for his forehand, a shot he strikes well out in front of his body while gazing hard at the yellow from behind his racket strings. None of your loved ones have ever looked at you with the intensity or care that Federer displays on a routine forehand. Probably you did not expect to have this sinking feeling when you opened this blog post but I promise you that it is true. It’s the single best stroke in the history of the sport, the skeleton key to all the various puzzles its wielder faces. The Federer forehand can do whatever he asks it to do, with pace, spin, and accuracy. Today, in the second- set tiebreak, he asked a lot of it, and on four straight points, it delivered: cleanly crack return winner (listen to that sound); tight angle nestling itself comfortably within the sideline; calm, deep passing shot; inside- out thunderbolt.

The other thing Roger Federer is known for is his serve. For many players, a booming serve is a crutch—something they rely on to compensate for other deficiencies, something they can ride to a solid career, though it might be a little embarrassing. For Federer it just sits at the core of a game that is altogether seamless. He can, almost incidentally, serve as well as anyone ever has. He can put the ball wherever he wants, not as fast as the very fastest but more precise than any of those guys, and that instrument has bailed him out of countless unpleasant situations. Today in the third set, when Berdych threatened to elbow his way back into the match by breaking serve, Federer rummaged around and found these four: That’s 1.

T; 1. 20 and gettable but just a little too spicy; 1. T again. Berdych put a racket on just one of them. Federer did all this flippantly, as simple as swiping a clod of Wimbledon turf off his shorts. As John Mc. Enroe and the rest of the commentators quipped, this is just him venting frustration. These are Federer at his best.

But he is not always at his best. One of the most common swooning refrains has to do with the way his feet move, the way his sneakers automatically, optimally flutter around the court to accommodate the ball, as if welcoming a favorite houseguest. You can see those feet in action in every point. It’s everywhere, the backdrop to all the other ingenuity. What you do need to see is what he’s capable of even when he’s not moving his feet at all—what he did today when caught flat- footed and lunging. What you should know, basically, is that Roger Federer’s desperation looks a little better than the other people’s very best.

Glory Be To The Underachievers. Grigor Dimitrov and Nick Kyrgios are two of the most watchable players on tour, with sure feel and shot- making for days. They may also be the two players with the most inborn talent but the least hardware to show for it.

Grigor Dimitrov and Nick Kyrgios are two of the most watchable players on tour, with sure feel and shot-making for days. They may also be the two players with the. It is the year 2017 of Roger Federer, and He is about to play in the Wimbledon final for the 11th time, and He has yet to drop a set. The seven-time champ cut down. The official website for Insecure on HBO, featuring full episodes online, interviews, schedule information and episode guides.

They are almost certainly the two players with the strangest “posts on this blog: title wins” ratio. And yet there they were yesterday, in the final of the Masters 1. Cincinnati, at 2. Dimitrov, the Federer- lite who looked so dominant early this season, played some startlingly good ball and won 6- 3, 7- 5. It’s funny how much more diverse the late stages of a Masters event get when Andy Murray, Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, and Stan Wawrinka are absent. Watch Forty Guns Full Movie on this page. The paths to this final were far softer than at any comparable event in recent memory: Dimitrov didn’t see a single top- 1. John Isner and Juan Martin del Potro, the rest was mostly cake.

Kyrgios, meanwhile, defeated ninth- seeded David Goffin, he of the recently busted ankle, in the first round. In the quarterfinal he upset top seed Rafael Nadal—you should really see how he did it—and then took out David Ferrer in the semifinal. After a dull summer of injury and early exits, these were the best two matches the Australian has strung together in months, full displays of untouchable serving and baseline power. He couldn’t manage that same register yesterday in the final, with his backhand faltering (1. Dimitrov’s absurd speed and defense for always forcing Kyrgios to hit one more ball: As someone who deeply enjoys both dudes’ styles of play, it’s a cool drop of relief to see them shut up the skeptics and sustain good tennis for a whole week to make a final of this magnitude. But as someone who has watched both long enough to know, I would not go so far as to confidently project big things for either at the U. S. Open, which begins next week.

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They’re just a little too volatile for any bold predictions. Just hold out modest hope and believe it when you see it. The unending Federer- Nadal show has been pleasant enough, but, c’mon—let them duel for year- end No. It’s bizarre to see it in writing, but in 2.