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**Soadiassy** · 11-09-2011, 09:02 PM

Patty Mac was a little critical of Roger for calling Novak's screaming winner a lucky shot. Which was funny because, had he read Novak's presser, he would have seen that even Novak called it lucky.

I thought calling it a lucky shot was fine. What troubled me a little was the way Roger prefaced it by referring to younger players who used that kind of shot as a substitute for working hard. It just seemed a strange way to reply.

http://www.usopen.org/en_US/news/int...692666313.html

Q. When a guy hits a shot like that forehand on match point, is that a function of luck, of risk, or is it a function of confidence that someone would make kind of...

ROGER FEDERER: Confidence? Are you kidding me? I mean, please. Look, some players grow up and play like that. I remember losing junior matches. Just being down 5 2 in the third, and they all just start slapping shots. It all goes in for some reason, because that's the kind of way they grew up playing when they were down. I never played that way. I believe in hard work's gonna pay off kinda thing, because early on maybe I didn't always work at my hardest. So for me, this is very hard to understand how can you play a shot like that on match point. But, look, maybe he's been doing it for 20 years, so for him it was very normal. You've got to ask him.

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Soadiassy Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 420 Senior Member	Patty Mac was a little critical of Roger for calling Novak's screaming winner a lucky shot. Which was funny because, had he read Novak's presser, he would have seen that even Novak called it lucky. I thought calling it a lucky shot was fine. What troubled me a little was the way Roger prefaced it by referring to younger players who used that kind of shot as a substitute for working hard. It just seemed a strange way to reply. http://www.usopen.org/en_US/news/int...692666313.html Q. When a guy hits a shot like that forehand on match point, is that a function of luck, of risk, or is it a function of confidence that someone would make kind of... ROGER FEDERER: Confidence? Are you kidding me? I mean, please. Look, some players grow up and play like that. I remember losing junior matches. Just being down 5 2 in the third, and they all just start slapping shots. It all goes in for some reason, because that's the kind of way they grew up playing when they were down. I never played that way. I believe in hard work's gonna pay off kinda thing, because early on maybe I didn't always work at my hardest. So for me, this is very hard to understand how can you play a shot like that on match point. But, look, maybe he's been doing it for 20 years, so for him it was very normal. You've got to ask him.
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