Roger has always been known to be one of the uniquely gifted tennis players, with extensive skills and styles during his games. Known to be amongst the most versatile players Roger enjoys the skills of all-court playing style. He is proficient in playing all of the required essential shots with utmost expertise. His volleyer and baseliner are both excellent, who can very well efficiently dictate the play.
Roger is known to use, the conventional grips in his plays, and that is the secret behind his great success. The forehand grip of this great personality can be described as a mixture of modern eastern and mild semi-western style. This makes it clear that his hand is about halfway under the racquet. This allows him for a choice of a flat and a topspin shot.
The distinguishing feature of Roger amongst all the other tennis players is that he is known to strike from his forehand on a plan that is straighter as compared to any other strike. He then finishes his swing curled around his backside, which is not known to be a typical technique of having the racquet reaching the shoulders and the elbow facing the sky.
Roger is also known to be efficiently capable of generating top-spin shots which allows him to open the angles of cross courts together with hitting the ball in full pace.
David Foster Wallace a very well known personality has described his exceptional style with:
"a great liquid whip"
John McEnroe has referred to it as
"the greatest shot in our sport"
Roger has also been an efficient one-handed backhand player which has been drastically improved over the years. Though there was once a time when the critics considered this as the weakest of his side, now it has proved to be essential for some of his major victories.
One of the many unique qualities of Roger is that he plays his shot quite early, when the ball is still on the rise, quite similar to the way of Andre Agassi. This art actually requires excellent footwork and reaction speed. It is also known that as compared to many of his opponents, Roger plays his shots very much closer to the net. This is his technique to give a very small reaction time to his contender.
The most difficult to understand of all his playing styles is his serve, where he tosses the ball at exactly the same spot no matter where he intends to strike it and usually has his back on the opposition.
The maximum speed of his first serve is estimated to be 210km/h. Roger keeps the serves mild, but occasionally increases the strike speed to keep his opponents off-balance.
His strength though is his own self as we all know that he is a wonderful, naturally gifted player. Even then his major power is his excellent footwork and his balance during the games which are the two most essential elements for a tennis player. Roger is also considered to be one of the fastest movers in the tennis game.
Deviating from the conventional technique of taking small steps while approaching the incoming ball, Roger has the ability to stride with long steps and hit the ball with a perfect balance, even if requires back pedaling.
His styles and talent are just the proof of his natural gift of being an outstanding tennis player.
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