Roger Federer won the ATP World Tour Finals in London yesterday with a 6:3 6:7 6:3 victory over Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. Federer has now won three tournaments in a row and holds a 17 match winning streak!
He also holds a new record now with 6 titles at the World Tour Finals. This success certainly puts a nice ending to Federer’s otherwise mediocre season and should give him some confidence going into the new year!
Check Out The Finals Highlights!
Federer’s Form
Throughout this tournament and the previous two events in Basel and Paris, Roger Federer has played some incredible Tennis. He is serving extremely well and his forehand is as dangerous as it has ever been. Playing on these fast under courts with rather low bounces makes him almost unbeatable when he is serving well and hitting his forehand at this level!
Backhand Problems
Throughout these three tournaments it was also obvious though that Roger’s backhand wasn’t working very well!
He framed a lot of shots and also had to slice many backhands. He was still able to dominate because of the indoor surfaces that allowed him to hit very few backhands throughout his matches and also because Nadal and Djokovic were not in good form at all!
I believe that this backhand problem will become a big issue in the next season if Federer and his coach, Paul Annacone don’t get a handle on it and clean up the stroke in the off-season!
Paul Annacone is not known to work on players technique though. As a matter of fact he coached Pete Sampras for years, knowing that Pete had a problem on his one-handed backhand. Obviously Pete was very successful under Annacone even though his backhand wasn’t superb.
For Roger Federer these days the competition is tougher though and I believe guys like Nadal and Djokovic will most likely punish this backhand weakness!
