Roger Federer back to Madrid Open is amazing news for tennis - Organizer
The former world No. 7 Albert Berasategui looks forward to welcoming Roger Federer back at the Madrid Open for the first time since 2015. "It's a pride for this tournament and amazing news for the world of tennis. An eventual final between him and Rafael Nadal would be a blast, these matches help to attract the crowd at the Caja Magica. Hopefully, people will enjoy some good tennis", said Berasategui, a Madrid organizer.
The Madrid Open will feature David Ferrer ending his career. "He gave us a lot of very good tennis matches. In the end, all the matches are very good. Winning a Masters 1000 is sometimes tougher than winning a Grand Slam. If you compare the two, in the end, you have many more balanced and tougher matches in a Masters 1000 because the draw is so hard and the matches good. New generations are coming up. I like Felix Auger Aliassime a lot. I saw him playing the Davis Cup world juniors three years ago. We are already speaking of him at just 18 years and for me, he will be one of the top players over a short time."
Meanwhile the expert Catherine Whitaker believes Dominic Thiem, who defeated Federer in Indian Wells, can suit to the hard courts very well: “He seems to be learning how to use and adapt his game, particularly on this surface. And look, Indian Wells is a particularly well-suited place to do that because he says really it plays like a clay court. The only thing that’s particularly different about is that he can’t slide. But in terms of the speed of the ball off the court and the bounciness of the court, it’s very much like a clay court. So if he was going to make a hard court breakthrough anywhere, this was going to be the place."
from Tennis World USA https://ift.tt/2uqSnIv
No comments