Roger Federer: Players today can really play on all surfaces to some degree
Roger Federer described how tennis has changed over the years. The Swiss player has evolved and he thinks the game has evolved too. "There is (no) outright clay-court specialist anymore, (or a) grass-court specialist. It's all sort of merged together that today you can play on any surface. I think we saw it in Davis Cup as well in the past, sometimes at the home court advantage choosing your own surface is not such an advantage. I think players today can really play on all surfaces to some degree, I wish that we had better volleys and aggressive in the game but players move, return and serve so good that it really makes it difficult to come to the net and then you get and then you get a habit of playing from the baseline and this is what our strength is. So it's gotten really different since when I started because I did play Pete Sampras, Richard Krajicek, Tim Henman, and that generation but I do miss," said the world no. 5.
Federer also believes that today, players who may not be as talented could still have success: "I think you can get away a little bit more with a worse technique because the strings actually do help you getting across the ball a bit easier while before they got heavier rackets and all the strings."
Federer is proud of how he changed himself mentally. The Swiss player said: "For me, the biggest improvement is that I have been able to make a breakthrough from the mental part, because I used to be quite crazy when I was younger, eventually I came up together and then start to understand why it's so important to work hard and once I started to work extremely hard all of a sudden I had a fluent game and I was able to use to unlock sort of my potential which I knew was big but I did not know it was this great. I am very much amazed of how well I have done over the years. You just work hard, you move a little bit luck on your side, you have to believe and be really strong mentally and not let it get you that the other guys play well against you."
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