In a demonstration of self control and supreme competitive tennis Roger Federer totally dismantled a somewhat fearful and tired Robin Soderling. 

What could we expect from someone that Federer had beaten 9 times in previous encounters without ever winning a set against Roger.

Federer had no pitty on the man he owes this Roland Garros victory to and who took out of the competion the only player that could have beaten Roger in a final of this importance - Rafael Nadal. 

Of course competitive tournament tennis is like this and Nadal lost but, a final without Nadal was almost like a no final for Federer to say the least.

Do I still believe Roger Federers conditioning remains suspicious, you bet I do! By serving extremely well Roger hides this weakness by making game after game as easy as possible.

Taking for example a Tommy Haas match where Roger won 28 points or 7 service games without hardly a return or a contest from Haas. ?

Did this play a role in the 5 set when Haas was tired of fighting for every serve of his and mental and physically drained out, while Federer had hardly fought?

Well Roger repeated this tactic against Del Potro and Soderling but a fit Rafael Nadal would not have allowed this and we would have had a very different final.

As a testimony to my words, Roger entered the final determined to win the first set and forced the pace and the play got the first set. Immediately, there was a vast decline in performance (fatigue or lack of fitness) that Soderling did not exploit with a break point in the first service game on Rogers serve. A Nadal would have been unforgiving and the second set would have gone 6/1 or 6/2.  Soderling allowed Roger to recover and lost the tie breaker.

These lapses lead me to believe that Roger is living on borrowed time and a possible career end is in the wings, I hope I am wrong but Wimbledon is an easy one for Roger the ultimate test will be the US Open.

Something that I can not hide from you is, that people are generally just lemmings! All of a sudden the herd decides that Federer should win! Boy, Roland Garros is a tennis tournament, not Davis Cup and much less a we feel sorry for this guy who never won this tournament!

The antics of the French crowd and the general press toward Acasuso, Haas, Del Potro and Soderling were just unfair:

- Shouts during second serves instigating double faults.

- Chanting Roger Federers name to psychologically destroy his opponents and they did because you can not fight an opponent of Rogers level and a crowd of fifteen thousand people! A little by little they mentally wore out Rogers opponents one by one.

- Any ball check request against Federer was greeted with uproars of disapproval, which carried on in future points against that player.

- The press, written, TV and Radio made it all possible to make sure everyone knew that history was in the making and that basically all other players in the tournament were just mere participants, for them a Roger Federer win was the only thing that mattered.

- Even the organization voluntary or involuntary, in the night or morning before the final added substantial amounts of sand to the court which made it slower which favored Federer who was hitting the ball slower than Soderling throughout the tournament at the tune of 20 to 40klms in some shots!

- These slower courts racked havoc with Soderlings timing and his powerful flat shots  which got him to the final and that would have hurt Roger, vanished. And we saw a Soderling struggling to hit balls with more topspin and often misstimed.

- Forced to serve harder in an attempt to compensate for the slow court surface Soderling lost his service rythm, started missing a high percentage of first serves and with it went his confidence. 

We have to remember that Soderlings average service speed before the final was well over 212Klm while Federers was in the 160/170Klm.

This simply means that while throughout the tournament Soderling was feeding on aces and solid powerful first services to set up the winners (flat shots).  Federer in turn was content to win by varying his services with much more spin and slower speeds. Ditto for ground strokes.

So in the end taking away Soderlings weapons with slower court conditions played a crutial role in Federers win.

What happened to fairness in sports?

Is it possible that humans can be lemmings to the point of forgetting that a tournament like the French Open is the product of the unabated efforts of all participants and that we should respect all, instead of unfairly and biased favor one player?

Tennis players are professionals, the tournaments are their workplace. Did any of us ever think, what if what was done to Acasuso, Haas, Del Potro, Soderling was done to any of us at our workplace?