Can Roger Federer Bounce Back? Does He Even Want To?
Monday, August 4th, 2008This year’s Wimbledon final loss of Roger Federer to Rafael Nadal was, in Roger’s words, the most painful loss he’s had in his career so far.
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And it shows in two ways:
- Roger has lost confidence and belief in his sometimes almost supernatural abilities, and thus doesn’t use them, and so fails to blow his opponents off the court; and
- His opponents see that he is not as dominant as he used to be, and that they even have a chance of beating him.












