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Meltdown of the Week

Finding Roger Federer Meltdown footage on YouTube is like finding a seat on the Number 4 Lexington Avenue subway at 9:30 in the morning. [Non-New Yorkers, take note: it's rare.] The Greatest of All Time usually deals with blown shots by dragging his middle finger across his forehead and tucking his hair behind his ear. Not this time. This was a semi-final match with Novak Djokovic at the 2009 Sony Ericsson Open in Miami, Florida. Djokovic just broke Fed in the third and deciding set and was up 15-0 when the Greatest of All Time took his eyes off a routine approach shot that could have evened the score. Federer went through lots of racquets when he was playing the junior circuit; wonder if he felt a little wave of nostalgia upon banging this one hard into the court.

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Apr192012

Hope Strings Eternal

Amy Eddings Posted on

Thursday, April 19, 2012 at 11:42PM

I picked up my newly-strung racquet today, popping the stringbed against the heel of my left hand, the way I see the pros do when they're pulling a new racquet out of their bags during a changeover.

Yup, I thought, there are strings in this racquet!

That's about all I'm sensing when I do this. What are the pros doing, then?

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