Yours truly was lucky enough to attend the ATP World Tour Final at the O2 Arena in London on Sunday. Federer and Tsonga put on a feast of tennis for the 17,000 capacity crowd, with Federer just about having the edge and deservedly taking the end of season spoils.
It's strange but if the ATP Tour rankings this year were purely based on the results of the last month, we would be talking about Federer returning to the world number one ranking yet again. Indeed if you witnessed his demolition of Nadal last week at the O2, you would have been quite easily mistaken him for still being the world number one, such was the astonishing quality of his play that evening.
So why was Federer playing so incredibly well after 11 months of toil on the tour, when his greatest enemies on a tennis court seemed to be dropping like flies? Djokovic looked like he couldn't hit a football within the lines let alone a tennis ball, Nadal resembled my skin colour (let's just say i'm pale) for the majority of the week, and Murray was literally having difficulties standing on a court, let alone playing on one.
Well in true "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" style i will give you four answers to choose from:
a) Federer has the common sense to have break every so often and who knows he may even have a Kit Kat in the process.
b) Djokovic and Nadal had played more matches this season than most people have had hot dinners by September and their bodies simply screamed "Enough".
c) Murray clearly only enjoys Asian cities and the Autumn season. The minute the continent and season changes he tends to hibernate for the winter.
d) The tennis season is simply too long. Unless you're sensible and do what Roger does. Revert back to answer a)
You decide!
Whatever the next tennis season holds, we will all be excited for the year ahead if we see glimpses of the same form from Roger as we have seen in the last week, as quite frankly he was awesome.
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