Was 2014 Wimbledon Final Roger Federer’s Greatest Match at All England Club?

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Published: July 9, 2014

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Watching Maestro Roger Federer span 12 years of beautiful tennis at Wimbledon is the centerpiece to tennis’ most glamorous golden age. Somehow his result in losing to Novak Djokovic for the 2014 championship is less the story than a living renewal of yet another brilliant performance that only extends his legacy.

It’s as if The Beatles could have put out another album in 1972. Federermania has actually been a creative force longer than Beatlemania, and in the tennis world, it is the very standard of masterpiece theatre.

There have been other incomparable champions at tennis’ holy cathedral, the All England Club, and they can all be summarized and remembered in the Open era as unique and brilliant originals:

Bjorn Borg’s self-made assimilation of topspin-approach tennis at a time of wooden rackets, as if Johannes Gutenberg were trying to digitalize his printing press.

John McEnroe’s old-school brilliance was a textbook to tennis’ past. He was a tennis Raphael, both painter and architect with his touch and angles.

Pete Sampras’ power serve and volley are still the greatest dominance on grass. He was efficient, ruthless and unconquerable as if the industrial revolution had sprung up in the middle of Ancient Greece.

And yet, Federer’s longevity and artistry on grass is an entire museum of seemingly tangible performance marvels.

He’s the embodiment of an heroic evolution that has taken one decade of tennis and advanced it 30 years. He has adapted through new conditions and competitors on grass, and under the scrutiny and expectations of a technically wired global audience, taking the entire sport of tennis with him as his competitors morphed into unrelenting cyborgs, designed to counter his genius.

How do you sort out his greatest matches? Even if we narrow this down to the nine times he has appeared in a Wimbledon ...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Tennis

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