We know Roger Federer is friends with Tiger Woods. We know that his
girlfriend of seven years, Mirka Vavrinec, is a former professional
tennis player. We know he has been ranked No. 1 in the world since
Feb. 2, 2004, a record streak.
Micah Cohen and Juliet Macur of The New York Times invited a
heavyweight boxer, a physicist, the father of famous tennis sisters
and others to explain how they would beat Roger Federer.
WLADIMIR KLITSCHKO, heavyweight boxing champion and a friend of Federer's:
First of all, he's my friend, so I wish he's going to win, but we stipulate.
I think you have to get him emotionally out of balance. And to get him
emotionally out of balance, you have to check in the hotel next room
to Roger and make all the possible noise in the room that he couldn't
sleep. Don't let him get any sleep, and steal his luggage and his
rackets so that he couldn't play.
You can kiss his girlfriend, and maybe he'd get jealous, you know,
he'd get upset and whatever.
Put a sleeping pill in his drink so that he barely can walk on the
court. Ambien works pretty good.
DR. ROLAND CARLSTEDT, chairman of the American Board of Sport Psychology:
My research on over 1,000 athletes, including hundreds of ranked
tennis players, has isolated three psychological factors that are the
most critical factors in driving peak and critical-moment performance,
choking tendencies and overall mental toughness. The measures —
hypnotic susceptibility, neuroticism and repressive coping — work
together to mediate brain-mind-body processes that underlie technical
performance.
The ideal athlete's profile is high or low hypnotic susceptibility,
low neuroticism and high repressive coping, whereas the worst profile
is high hypnotic susceptibility, high neuroticism and low repressive
coping.
If I were to assume that Roger Federer has the ideal profile, there
are still minor vulnerabilities associated with this profile,
including the tendency to know it all, lessened coachability and
annoyance with those who dare challenge or contest athletes with this
profile. These characteristics may explain why Federer has been
without a coach for much of his career — something that could
eventually haunt him by preventing him to conceptualize ideal game
plans and also prevent him from accessing psychological interventions
that can help all athletes enhance recovery, sleep and immune
function.
The best way of increasing the odds that a player could beat Federer
would be to prime him psychologically through advanced mental training
techniques to carry out a meticulously and scientifically based game
plan that is designed to expose Roger's minute weaknesses. By engaging
in sophisticated and high-tech approaches to motor training and
mind-body control, procedures that I have validated through extensive
testing, a player who can last and go toe-to-toe with Roger or even
pull ahead of him has a chance of winning.
The ability to stay with Federer game after game is something that can
impact a player with the ideal athlete's profile, since they are not
used to being tested or having their high level of self-confidence and
self-esteem attacked head-on.
JELENA JANKOVIC, third-ranked player on the WTA Tour.
Oh, gosh, I don't know how I could beat him. I guess I would have to
tie his legs together so he couldn't move. If that didn't work, I
would wear a short skirt, and hopefully that would distract him.
DIEGO AYALA, professional coach who, as a player in 1996, defeated
Federer at the Coffee Bowl juniors tournament in Costa Rica.
Beating Roger Federer at the U.S. Open has been pretty impossible the
last three years, but I think I have developed a foolproof plan to
beat him:
1. Find out what restaurant he is eating at the night before the match
and throw some Ex-Lax or Visine in his water a la "Wedding Crashers."
2. You could mess up his wake-up call, to give him one every hour.
3. Bribe the stringers at the tournament to string his rackets at the
worst tension possible.
4. Create a roadblock so he cannot get to the tournament. I'm thinking
maybe blocking both exits of the Midtown Tunnel while he is in it.
5. If he somehow still manages to get to the courts, have somebody
there ready to go Tonya Harding on him!
HOWARD BRODY, emeritus professor of physics at the University of
Pennsylvania and author of the book "The Physics and Technology of
Tennis."
Roger Federer is a difficult tennis player to defeat because he has no
obvious weak spots in his game. One way to increase the chances of
defeating Roger Federer is to reduce the number of unforced errors you
make.
But how do you know which of your shots are more likely to go in (be
good)? There is a computer program which evaluates a shot's
probability of going in. It allows you to change how hard you hit it,
change the spin, how high above the court the ball is struck, where on
the court you are hitting from, where you are aiming your shot
(crosscourt versus down the line) and allows you to see the relative
chance of that shot going in.
This computer program uses the laws of physics (Newton's laws of
motion) to compute the ball trajectories for a given input and tells
you how risky or safe that particular shot is.
RICHARD WILLIAMS, father and coach of Venus and Serena Williams.
There's only three ways to beat Roger Federer. You first pay him
enough money not to show up — that's the first thing you do. If he
turns that down, then you try your best to get a baseball bat and
break his leg because he runs so fast. Now, if he gets away from you,
then the next one is, honestly, is just to sit like I do and watch him
play, then you can beat anyone just sitting in the stands because you
never miss a shot. Those are the only three ways I know you can beat
Roger Federer.
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