“It’s always important to be calm, to stay positive, and to believe, to believe that you can win” [emphasis mine] said a certain young Serb last year after defeating Federer in the semi-finals of the US Open championships last year. That, as I pointed out in my previous post, would have been key if Federer was to defeat Nadal in today’s semi-finals in Australia. The mental component of his game, as in previous attempts, has once again proven to be the great RF’s Achilles heel. I’ll have to watch a recording of the match to see what he did wrong, but from the reports, it looks like he blew many key breakpoints. Again, a key area that I pointed out.
All in all, another sad defeat for this Federer fan 