Australian snooker star desires to play and win in a right way just like Roger Federer

Australian snooker star desires to play and win in a right way just like Roger Federer

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Roger Federer is one of the most respected athletes around

Neil Robertson, Australian snooker star and former World number one seems to be a fan of Roger Federer, just likes many other tennis fans around the world. Roberston believes that Federer plays tennis in a proper way and he desires to play and win titles in snooker in a fashion, Roger Federer goes about doing in tennis.

“I want to play the proper way,” Robertson said. “You watch people like Roger Federer, and guys like that, the way they go about it and win trophies. I want to win the right way.” “I’ve won enough tournaments mixing it up with different varieties, but I want to win the right way and I think that’s what’s led me to have success these last few years,” he added.

Roger Federer is one of the most respected sportsman around, with his competitiveness on court and the way he carries himself off the court. The Swiss maestro holds the record for most Grandslam titles won, 20, alongside his greatest on court rival, Rafael Nadal. Roger Federer’s playing style in still conventional and he prefers using precision rather than using sheer force.

His playing style is well documented by American author, David Foster Wallace who describes watching Federer play tennis as a religious experience, way back in 2006.

Witnessing, firsthand, the beauty and genius of his game: Wallace on Federer’s flawless playing style

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David Wallace claimed that watching Federer play tennis was a religious experience

David Wallace had heaped praise on Roger Federer’s playing style and claimed that it was fluid and flawless at the same time. “Roger Federer’s forehand is a great liquid whip, his backhand a one-hander that he can drive flat, load with topspin, or slice — the slice with such snap that the ball turns shapes in the air and skids on the grass to maybe ankle height,” Wallace had written.

He had also mentioned that the Swiss’ serve was world class and had a pin-point precision.Wallace mentioned that nothing could describe the joy and satisfaction of watching Roger Federer play tennis.

“Federer’s serve has world-class pace and a degree of placement and variety no one else comes close to; the service motion is lithe and uneccentric, distinctive (on TV) only in a certain eel-like all-body snap at the moment of impact. His anticipation and court sense are otherworldly, and his footwork is the best in the game — as a child, he was also a soccer prodigy.”

“All this is true, and yet none of it really explains anything or evokes the experience of watching this man play,” he had added. “Of witnessing, firsthand, the beauty and genius of his game.”

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