This Player DISRESPECTED Roger Federer... and it ended up Backfiring him!

[robk]

Federer dealt with these ultra hard hitting weapons with no fear and pure talent. Favourite player of all time.

[jeffrp]

Silly title. No disrespect and no backfiring on him.

[seanxi]

Roger's thoughts : I hit the ball in, why would I not want that point...

[MC-clip]

I will never tire of seeing Roger Federer hit his backhand. It is the most perfect stroke in true history of the game.

[weyman]

Robin Soderling did Roger Federer a big favour by beating Rafa at the French Open. One of the few defeats Rafa suffered there.

[mnztr]

Damn I miss watching Fed. No one playing today has his tennis IQ. Not even close. Novak, maybe more mentally tough, but no one crafted points and had the match play management of Fed.

[lawrencemckeon]

Soderling thought the ball was going out, so he took a half hearted swing, THEN the line judge called it out, which didn’t affect his swing. Then Soderling’s shot also went out. Hawk Eye overruled the line judge, but Soderling’s ball needed to be in for him to have an argument. ie. He should have played the ball properly and not assumed it was out.

[brewster]

My opinion - not disrespect, just fierce competition. Could have been a bit of a mind game attempt. I was guilty of that back in my college tennis days (who wasn't?). The quality of tennis in this match by both players was unreal. But like previous comments, the grace of Fed's game is unmatched. There may be others who statistically beat Fed, but none (so far) that portray his mastery and grace of every stroke.

[bashqadriqadri]

Miss federer. The real GGOAT. Greatest gentleman of all time.

[jameswatt]

Never been so encapsulated by tennis. Great story and highlight set up. Perfect

[tolendoi]

I thought it was going to be a 6-1, 6-1, 6-0 kinda match. Regular match win for Federer and nothing backfired on Soderling.

[phadleytube]

Really quite a close match and not the thumping the title of this video suggested. When I first saw Federer beat Sampras at Wimbledon and even when losing to Tiger Tim Henman he seemed more fierce the way he played. His groundstrokes were stunning scary bullets with pinpoint accuracy. Later he obviously mastered the game a lot more and became more graceful and elegant but never saw that same menacing play. Maybe with the exception of his Indian wells win over Rafa fresh from beating the Spaniard in the Australian open. Anyway I'm no tennis expert but that was my impression.

[Dreamdancer]

Roger loves this guy...he was the guy that stopped Nadal from facing Federer in the Roland garros final that he actually won....so he played him instead and got his only

[stickyrice]

Robin Soderling the only player who really beat up Prime Rafa on Clay.

[rivierarocket]

For Soderling who had a 1-16 WL against Federer Soderling needed to shut his mouth

[Lucille-kymp]

Simply the Best Rogiee we missed you😭❤️💋🇵🇭🇨🇭

[knotwilg]

Söderling was the only player ever having the courage to call out Nadal's compulsive behavior that made him consistently violate the time rule but umpires never did something about it. He also beat Nadal, which goes to show that if you refuse to play by Nadal's rules, you have a chance. You have to accept being the enemy though of the world of tennis. Nadal is a tremendous player, a nice guy off court, a true professional, so his popularity is totally fair. But he did bend the rules throughout his career and he was particularly nasty when being called out on it.

[martintu]

Nothing to do with backfire, Federer just beat him like he beats others during his prime

[kennethwilliams]

To me, it looked like Soderling thought the ball was going long and just half-swung at it, not because he heard the out call but just believed the ball was long.

[harryedwards]

Na it was very tight match not a punishment by any means . Roger put less balls in the net but Great play by both