Roger Does It Again- wins US Open
It was an enthraling night ( my time) to watch on TV how Roger tamed the 20 year old rising star from Serbia Novak Djokovic in the last Tennis major championship of the year - the 2007 US Open. 
He is just 2 more slams away from the record 14th won by Pete Sampras and is the first player in the open era to win 4 consecutive US Open championships. The ladt person to do so was Bill Tilden .
I waited till late night to watch the match as I thought it was time for the new generation to take over and only Novak could beat the unstoppable Federer. The match started slowly as none wanted to attack for the first 4 games. It was Djokovic who drew first blood by breaking Federer’s serve for the first time.
It was evident that federer was not playing his best of tennis which was more visible from the 3rd set of his Semi-Final match against Nikolay Davydenko. On that set Nikolay showed the vulnerability of Federer as he constantly kept Roger on the baseline and just played solidl. Nikolay showed that- if you play solidly and do not make much mistakes - Roger gets frustrated and is prone to hit unforced erros! 
I imagined Djokvic would have watched that match and would learn from it. But - though Roger played really bad- he broke back immediately after he was broken thus taking the initiatives away from Novak. Djokovic had 7 set-points in the first two sets but could not convert sinlge! - What a pity.
The final scoreline read - 7-6, 7-6, 6-4 in Roger’s favor.
What an end to an anti-climax! The first few games and first two sets brought hopes of an improbable upset asFederer was not hitting the balls as well as he could. But he is the ultimate king- his bad days are still better than good days for other players.
Go Roger Go- You can win the French Open too in 2008 - best of luck.
