« Reply #328 on: September 23, 2021, 08:13:21 PM »
I think he's being realistic in just not knowing. No one has comeback at the same standard in singles after this type of surgery. He's 34 which once upon a time was old in tennis terms. The matches I've watched since he returned including the first round in Moselle, he's been almost there. The highs are as high but they are less frequent, and the lows are more frequent. It looks to me as much mental as physical but that may be as much about match practice in both cases. The problem for Murray, and indeed Nadal and Djokovic, now is that their games are hugely based around fitness. Federer has lasted as long as he has at the top because it's a less brute force style. He's always looked to win points more quickly.
I'm not sure I've ever seen someone in sport make the rest of the best in the world look quite as mediocre as Federer in his prime - his ability to read the shot before it was made gave him so much time to get into the right position and it was just effortless. Even to an occasional tennis fan it was an opportunity to just glimpse something verging on superhuman.
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