Top seed Roger Federer has ended the tennis season by winning his fourth Masters Cup in the Chinese city of Shanghai. Spain’s David Ferrer was no match for the Swiss tennis maestro as Federer walked away with his 53rd career title after a devastating display of all-round tennis.
Ferrer, who is yet to win against Federer after eight matches between the two, was the only unbeaten player in the competition. Convincing performances against fellow countryman and friend Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Andy Roddick earlier in the tournament gave David Ferrer’s fans and neutrals hope of putting one aside past the world number one. But as many cases before, the great Federer stores his best tennis for the final. The 6-2, 6-3, 6-2 scoreline certainly proves the greatness of the man from Basel.
Roger Federer did not come into the season-ending Masters Cup with invincible form. After suffering two consecutive defeats at the hands of Argentine David Nalbandian, some pundits began to wonder whether the Swiss magician is losing his sharpness in the game. That assumption was supported to some extent when Chilean Fernando Gonzalez handed Federer a shock defeat in his very first game.
After Sunday’s final David Ferrer might have thought that Gonzalez should not have beaten the Swiss for Federer followed up his defeat with convincing victories and as a result stopped all the speculation about his struggling form.
The Spaniard was blown away by Federer’s mixture of volleying, spin, power and anticipation skills. David Ferrer was certainly not helped by the fact that he made 38 unforced errors to Federer’s 29 and just 10 winners to the Swiss’s 30. But even the best falters against the legend that Roger is.
The tennis fraternity would certainly hope that it catches the rolling Federer machine cold in the coming year but it is for sure that the great man would be ready to disappoint all his rivals. For now lets wish Roger Federer and the rest of the tennis world a very happy vacation and look forward to a swashbuckling 2008.
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Via: BBC
