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What is there to say? After a long break and an easy draw into the Basel final Roger was expectedly rusty and very far from his best. I only got to see the last set an a half at work, and it was disappointing to see Roger play this way the first match I saw after his comeback to the tour. But what do people expect? After his long break after Wimbledon the same thing happened when he lost to Tsonga. That was an even worse loss though after he was up 5-1 in the final set. So not much to worry about. Just rust. Probably Roger will come back in Paris and win the tournament, although it must be said that it doesn’t seem to be his favorite tournament. The important thing from a fan perspective is that Roger is back on court, and that he will be getting better with every match he plays.
Against Djokovic he was hitting a lot of mishits off both sides. His timing was off and he looked low on confidence. But again I ascribe that to a lack of match practice. Even as talented as Roger is, he still needs to play matches to get back in the swing of things. In Basel Roger had a pretty easy draw as all the seeds in his half of the draw fell early. It doesn’t exactly do your confidence wonders when you march into the final after a long break without playig a top 20 player . I’m not trying to make excuses here. I really just think Roger was rusty and looked nowhere near his best. We all know what he did to Djokovic in Cincinnati and the US Open, so no need to think that he is all of a sudden having problems with Djokovic again. Just glad he is back!
Sadly I missed all Roger’s matches in Basel so far, but I couldn’t be happier hearing that he schooled an attacking Evgeny Korolev today in two easy sets. Roger is clinical, professional and ruthless. There has never been a player like him and there never will be. Period. I mean the guy is 28 years old and he makes the young guns look like a bunch of clowns. Respect. Next he faces his compatriot and Davis Cup team mate Marco Chiudinelli, who beat Richard Gasquet surprisingly easily 6-1, 6-3. Is this guy the next Roger Federer or what? Of course not 
But anyway it is great to see another player from Switzerland having such great results. I guess these players are so inspired by Roger that Switzerland will soon be the next tennis powerhouse of the world.
Roger has never played against Chiudinelli and I’m sure there is another schooling on it’s way. Roger just loves this tournemant and he really looks to be in devistating form. Incredibly Djokovic survived Roger’s other Davis Cup teammate Stanislas Warinka 3-6, 7-6, 6-2. It is starting to look like a R0ger/Djokovic final isn’t it? Well Djokovic still has Radek Stepanek to deal with who beat Cilic in three sets. It’s a good win for Stepanek but I think Djokovic should beat him. In the mean time the tournament in Valencia is also going on, but who cares??? Roger Federer is back in town and that is all that matters!!! 
I just want to thank everyone that has commented on my comeback post, it really made my day.
One of my readers said that she has been reading All I Need Is A Picket Fence while I was gone, but that it was not quite like my blog. That means a lot to me Veronica, because I respect Dootsiez’s blog and she is also a big supporter of Roger. Dotsiez’s if you are reading this, bless you girl! Thank you to Dolores, Aspa and Dippy also for your kind comments. I have missed you guys and I hope that Ines, Paul, Jason and all the others will show up soon as well. This is a special blog for me and it is not the same without you. OK enough of the emotional comeback for now. I have to head to bed again because I have to be at work 5 hours. I will be back with another post as soon as I can. Now make that a fifth title champ!
I am sorry that my blog has been offline of late, but after a monumental struggle I have finally been able to get it back online. As you know I started a new job and some days I am working 14 hour shifts. So I havn’t been able to go to the bank to fund my account in order to pay for my domain hosting. I hope I didn’t lose any readers because of this, but it was beyond my control. There has been some interesting things happening in the tennis world, like Andre Agassi admitting to taking chrystal meth and waring a wig. I would like to write more about this subject, because I think people have been way too judgemental of Agassi about this, but for now I don’t have the time. Also Roger has played two matches in Basel so far, beating Olivier Rochus and Andreas Seppi fairly easily in the first two rounds.
He next faces Evgeny Korolev, and he looks to be on his way to a fourth title in Basel. The second best player in the draw is Djokovic, and I don’t see him stopping Roger. I’m looking forward to see Roger giving him yet another good spanking after he has won their last two meetings in Cincinnati and the US Open in straight sets. From what I hear, Roger looks fresh and ready to claim his fifth year end number one spot. Ever since the last time I have written a post I have missed following Roger and I realized that this blog is important to me. So I don’t plan on quitting this blog for a long time, but I am still getting in the routine of working and I have to still figure out a way to combine my blogging and job successfully. So please stay patient and don’t give up on me!
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