Good experience for Ryan. Glad he got the lucky loser spots the last 2 times. He has Roddick for a mentor but I think he has a better all-around game (more like Nole but with a better serve and hopefully no allergies) and I think he'll be top 4 when the current top 4 fade out.

Who could be the other three?

Milos, if he can stay healthy, has the dynamite serve and is very mature with his mental toughness. He should improve to be a Delpo/Ivo hybrid i.e. Ivo's serve with Delpo's groundies.

Dimitrov aka "Baby Fed" can be great. He has patterned his game exactly after Roger. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery I guess. If he improves a bit he should be near the top. The guy has a lot of talent to be able to pull off Roger's style of play.

The guy is a bit nutty but Tomic should be the Murray equivalent of the future. The scary thing is he doesn't have the mental issues of Murray. He's super confident and knows, not believes, he can do it.

I always like to watch the early rounds of a GS to see how the young talent does and how they play. Luckily there are no Rafa-imitators (except the older unsuccessful Verdasco) so once he retires hopefully we won't have to watch that ugly style of play, OCD, fake modesty, on-court death stares,etc. anymore. The future looks bright!

Ha ha Federer is quite plebian and easy to imitate. He is just a textbook style trained automation with no expression.
But Rafa is a natural genius, not out of a textbook. So it is not easy to imitate him. We can look forward to a boring bunch of Roger clones. But Rafa is unique and a great player like him can come only once in a blue moon.
Apart from his genius he is a great person. His sayings are pearls of wisdom.
But Roger is insecure and needs to constantly praise himself.
His fans have built him into a Chuck Norris kind of character.

we are privileged to have the opportunity of seeing him in our lifetimes.

Some Federer(chuck norris) jokes
http://allineedisapicketfence.wordpress.com/2008/10/12/federer- chuck-norris-jokes/

This site always adds an extra space in links. In the above link please delete the space between federer- and chuck-norris-jokes/ i.e. it should be federer-chuck-norris-jokes/

If paper beats rock, rock beats scissors, and scissors beats paper, what beats all 3 at the same time? Answer: Roger Federer.
If, by some incredible space-time paradox, Roger Federer would ever play himself in a best of 5 set match at Wimbledon, he?d win. Period.
Roger Federer is not capable of hitting a target on the broad side of a barn with his forehand. Every time he tries, the whole damn barn falls down.
Roger Federer is the only man to ever defeat a brick wall in a game of tennis.
If tapped, the power generated by a Roger Federer forehand could power the country of Switzerland for 44 minutes.
The First Law of Thermodynamics states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed? unless it meets Roger Federer on the tennis court.
Roger Federer is so fast, he can run around the world and still hit his own forehand back to himself.
Scientists have estimated that the energy given off during the Big Bang is roughly equal to 1RFF (Roger Federer Forehand)
Newton?s Third Law is wrong: Although it states that for each action, there is an equal and opposite reaction, there is no force equal in reaction to a Roger Federer forehand.


16. It is scientifically impossible for Roger Federer to have had a mortal father. The most popular theory is that he went back in time and fathered himself.



17. There?s an order to the universe: (1) space, (2) time, (3) Roger Federer?. Heh-heh. Just kidding. Roger Federer is first.



18. The air around Roger Federer is always a balmy 78 degrees.



19. Roger Federer can get Blackjack with just one card.



20. Bigfoot takes pictures of Roger Federer.



21. Roger Federer once hit a forehand so hard that the tennis ball broke the speed of light, went back in time, and struck Amelia Earhart?s plane while she was flying over the Pacific Ocean. Mystery solved.



22. Roger Federer doesn?t churn butter. He hits forehands at the cows and the butter comes straight out.



23. Faster than a speeding bullet ? more powerful than a locomotive ? able to leap tall buildings in a single bound? yes, these are some of Roger Federer?s warm-up exercises.



24. Superman once watched a replay of the 2005 Wimbledon Final. He then cried himself to sleep.



25. As President Roosevelt once said: ?We have nothing to fear but fear itself. And playing Roger Federer.?



26. He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword. He who lives by Roger Federer, dies by the forehand.



27. There are two types of people in the world? people that suck, and Roger Federer.



28. I?m not saying Roger Federer?s speed is underrated, but he once qualified with a top speed of 324 mph at the Daytona 500. Without a car.



29. Roger Federer doesn?t daydream. He?s too busy giving the other ATP players nightmares.



30. Roger Federer is not Politically Correct. He is just Correct. Always.



31. Roger Federer isn?t afraid of Urban Legends. He IS an Urban Legend.

This thread concerns 'Ferrer and harrison', so how does Federer feature into this? Is this now a site for jokes?

Yeah, got to ask número that question, how does Fed and others feature in this thread in the first place. Anyway, after watching all the youngsters, it confirms one thing to me, Fed is not unique as his style can be copied and maybe in no time, Dimitrov will moth into the next Fed. Harrison is super aggressive and has a all round game, he'll be better than Roddick. He's not a Nole as he's more aggressive and can S&V whilst I find Nole still a bit lacking in his net play. Raonic is more like Sampras than Delpo, he moves better than Delpo and has a more lethal serve. I like Tomic the best, he's the Murray in the making minus the negativity. To me I think Tomic is the most intelligent of the lot, a thinking player other than having talent, something like Rafa and Murray, the type of players I like best, for they use their brain the most when they play (Simon is another one), rather than just concentrate on having so called beautiful strokes.

Tut, tut numero, I was enjoying your take on these exciting young players and suddenly it became a wind up of Rafa fans, which of course provokes a Rafa fan and ........ad nauseum.
Guys, it's getting sillier and sillier by the minute!

Fed have one guy who copies his style, Rafa too have one spaniard, and maybe already 50 young spaniards all over the spain who does it.
So they both are unique Lucky!
And definetly Fed use his brain, more than anybody else these days actualy especialy with top 10 guys. Look at French open final, Feds brain was boiling like always with Nadal, but Rafa did not have to, becouse we already know why.

I don't think that numero's comment warrants the copying and pasting of those ridiculous jokes. This is not Jokeroo.com. The poster who did that never needs a reason to bash Fed, but does it at will.

Anatolijs, copying is one thing, copying successfully is another. It's understandable that the top two three guys are the ones whose games are most copied by the youngsters and up and comers. Right now according to some, this Dimitrov guy has a very similar game as Fed, at least right now, none of the youngsters can play like Rafa, not with his unique forehand and his movement on clay. Not many players can move well on all surfaces, and those Spanish youngsters who tried to copy Rafa may not move well on grass. Rafa is special and simply very difficult to copy, because he plays an unorthodox syle, unorthodox are original and hard to copy. Another unorthodox player I can name is Dolgopolov, who's another player that I like alot.

Every player uses his brain, it's a matter of how good one's brain is. Rafa and Murray are the two best tennis brains around, if not how can they beat the Master more than he beats them, even when they were both youngsters, at age 17 and age 19, when they first beat Fed. Most of Fed's peers can't even beat Fed, not even once in their career, right until Fed started his decline slowly, that these peers, one by one, get their chances to beat Fed, maybe once. Remember Blake at the Olympics 2008? Benneteau at Paris masters 2009? Melzer at MC this year?

I had to copy and paste Federer jokes. But the delusional Fed fans' posts are all original jokes.