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8/19/10 6:45 PM | Johan Lindahl
While the tennis world usually erupts into heaving hysteria with every competitive up and down of major players like Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, the ice-calm Swiss lets it all roll off his back as he concentrates on the job at hand on court.
That was the case after Federer's quarter-final defeats at Roland Garros and Wimbledon this season after winning both of those majors in 2009. But the earth moved again - in the opposite direction - when the 29-year-old reached the final last week in Toronto, going down to Andy Murray in his first event in six weeks.
"Isn't it strange what a final can do,?" Federer said with a touch of irony as he moved ahead in the last major US Open tuneup in Cincinnati. "Murray hadn't won a tournament since November, now he's one of the favorites for the US Open; Rafa couldn't play tennis anymore until the clay court season came around.
"I lost the final of the Australian Open in five sets and I couldn't play tennis anymore after that. Still I ended up winning three slams."
For 16-time grand Slam champion Federer, the shifts are nothing more than amusing and all part of ATP life. "Tennis is a fast moving sport, and the best players get judged very harshly. But I think you don't always have to judge the present.
"You have to judge one or two years back, plus how have the matches been played. 7-6 in the third doesn't always mean that you played poorly, let's say. You can also leave tournaments having not won them playing well. People forget that."
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