ATP: Falls, flips, sensations: Federer takes down his rivals

Roger Federer is a master of balance, but the “Maestro” likes to send his opponents onto the boards. Here you can see the best slips in the video.

Roger Federer is by no means a crash pilot. The footwork of the Swiss is so supple even at an advanced age that the 36-year-old seldom puts himself on his nose. After his knee injury last year, things looked a bit different:”Roger had to learn to walk more or less from scratch,”fitness coach Pierre Paganini said recently.

For Federer’s opponents, however, rough ground contact is not uncommon. Especially Novak Djokovic made frequent acquaintance with the hard ground during his duels with the 19-times Grand Slam winner. The fact that the falls did not always go out completely painlessly, you can see in this entertaining compilation.