General masterclass go fire up my Federer thread at MTF and add another title to federer's name.
I wi stand by my predictions.
0 titles for Rafa for the remainder of this season and 0-1 some small chicken
**** clay title for 2016 unless he cares enough to win.
he has to go fix his fitness and his game.
Players 10 years older than him are winning titles because they are more focused and better prepared.
I don't know what Rafa was doing in Basel. It is clear they threw $1 million dollars at him so he went.
Why the hell was that doubles so bloody important. If he had just spent 10 hours working on his serve, the return, and the backhand he would not have had to log in those long hours in his singles matches.
And he would have won this title.
Somebody stop to think here. Zero hard court titles since the U. S. Open (2013). and at the end of next year it will be over 3 years with zero titles on the hard courts while players 10 years older than him with no weapons are piling up titles.
Why would you waste away on the hard courts with such diminished game and such drastically reduced fitness.
And the risk of injury goes up significantly.
If he wants to compete and win at the highest level than he has to go fix his fitness and win titles on clay.