U.S. Open Tennis
News, notes and fun from the U.S. National Tennis Center.
Roger Federer says the wind is his friend
While everyone around him at Flushing Meadows was cursing the wind and its effect on a tennis ball, Roger Federer was basking in it, loving it, embracing the challenge of adjusting to it at the last split second. That ability to focus under duress is what separated him from fifth-seeded Robin Soderling in his 6-4, 6-4, 7-5 win in the U.S. Open quarterfinals, and before the tournament is over, that...
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