ATP Tour - Federer to play Monte Carlo Masters

Eurosport - Fri, 10 Apr 23:38:00 2009

Roger Federer has reversed his initial decision to skip the Monte Carlo Masters and will now take part in the opening clay-court tournament of the season.

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The world number two from Switzerland had originally planned to play less in clay-court competition in 2009 than in past years, and he has only signed up for Rome and Madrid as preparation for the French Open.

Organisers of the April 11-19 Monte Carlo Masters had kept Federer a wildcard in the hope he changed his mind.

"We never lost hope that he would play," admitted tournament director Zejlko Franulovic.

Federer has endured a disappointing start to the season in his own high standards, failing to win a tournament and losing more ground on arch-rival and world number one Rafael Nadal of Spain.

Federer has never won in Monte Carlo, and has lost the final of the last three tournaments to the Spaniard.

AFP

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  1. good luck fed, rafa @you fed, are the best tennis­ player

    From lyza, on Sat 11 Apr 5:41PM

  2. good luck fed, rafa @you fed, are the best tennis­ player

    From lyza, on Sat 11 Apr 5:41PM

  3. i think murray is perfoming well lately but roger is­ still the best player in the universe.so, federrer dont­ give up.you are the champion.

    From dejoks12, on Sat 11 Apr 5:39PM

  4. i think murray is perfoming well lately but roger is­ still the best player in the universe.so, federrer dont­ give up.you are the champion.

    From dejoks12, on Sat 11 Apr 5:37PM

  5. Look guys Tennis is worth watching around the world­ especially Africa because of one man - Ro genius­ Federer Without him money reeling television audience­ will ebb. Tournament organizers know this. Ask Monte­ Carlo 2009 organizers if you are in doubt. He is the­ Face of Tennis. Ro genius is the ONLY ambassador of­ Tennis- the best there was and the very best there ever­ will be on court.

    eric

    From Atlantic, on Sat 11 Apr 10:32AM

  6. Nadal wins because he is very quick around the court­ and even more importantly, he will chase anything,­ nothing is a lost cause. Couple this with the fact he­ hardly ever makes an unforced error and you have a­ formiddable player.
    If anyones going to stop him at­ Monte Carlo or Roland Garros, they'll have to play­ out of their skin. On clay he is more difficult to beat­ because he is so fast anyway, he has even more time to­ chase down. If Roger is going to beat him, the unforced­ errors have to go, Rafa sometimes makes less than ten a­ match.

    From dcvcarling, on Fri 10 Apr 10:50PM

  7. Come on Roger.
    It´s time to turn it arround again. I­ believe Roger will step up a gear and show he still got­ it. He will meet Nadal in the final and then it´s just­ to see whats happens because lets face it Nadal is king­ of clay but Roger is the second best on clay by far and­ he has showed that for many years.

    From markwandy, on Fri 10 Apr 7:24PM

  8. Venus is the best player in the world. Why does people­ not like the williams' sisters. They should be­ appreciated. They alone are the tennis players that are­ keeping the WTA WATCHABLE. Sorry if you want to watch­ junior quality tennis. SUPPORT VENUS. I think at the­ monet she is the only one worthy of a Grand slam at­ Rolland Garros she has work consistently hard. SHE­ SHOULD AND WILL WIN ROLLAND GARROS

    From B, on Fri 10 Apr 7:06PM

  9. A BRAND NEW ROLAND GARROS BY 2012!FRENCH FEDERATION­ TENNIS PRESIDENT Jean Gachassin announced tha a new­ CENTRE COURT WITH A RETRACTABLE ROOF WILL BE BUILT to­ make sure that the French Open does not move to Madrid­ in the near future.The whole Roland Garros will be­ enlarged(with new courts among others).There 4­ architects to choose from.Building licence to be­ obtained before end of 2009.Construction should be­ starting beginning of 2010 and ending in 2012.

    From Jeremy, on Fri 10 Apr 7:04PM

  10. another loss for Federer against Nadal...

    From Daniel OLiveira, on Fri 10 Apr 6:06PM

  11. I think Federer now realises that he cant let the young­ pretenders creep up on him. He now HAS to play as many­ tournaments as them just to stay where he is. Its a­ clear sign that he isnt as dominant as he once was.

    From Peter, on Fri 10 Apr 5:24PM

  12. It's hard for Roger to destroy his racket on clay.I­ can't wait to see......

    From sagupaan1, on Fri 10 Apr 2:29PM

  13. Come on Roger you can do it.Some of the posts on this­ site are stupid and not about tennis get RID eurosport­ please.

    From AJ, on Fri 10 Apr 12:27PM

  14. Lets all wish Federer good luck.. he needs a lot of­ luck now to win ANY tournament!
    Young guns are firing­ their weapon without any response from him! Now that­ next tourment is on clay...hmmmmmm..maybe more trouble­ for him and lost his control again!

    From Koyki, on Fri 10 Apr 11:05AM

  15. Great decision! I was already criticizing him for­ omitting this masters. Now I see he has clear mind to­ get as much practise against top players as he can.­ Looking forward to see him on clay. He is one of the­ best claycourters on the planet.

    From risimko, on Fri 10 Apr 8:41AM

  16. ROGER GET A COACH! ROGER GET A COACH! ROGER GET A­ COACH! ROGER GET A COACH!

    From damtaren, on Fri 10 Apr 4:32AM

  17. LET'S GO ROGER!

    From Nedim, on Thu 9 Apr 11:52PM

  18. Why is this saying invalid comment

    From dcvcarling, on Thu 9 Apr 11:24PM

  19. Good news for the tournament and good news for tennis­ fans. Without Fed, any tournament is incomplete. ­ Cheers

    From rhymes450, on Thu 9 Apr 10:31PM

  20. We all get a bit grumpier with age !! the truth is­ ,none of us here really have a clue,what it is like to­ be the very best in the world at any anything,do we ???­ Lets cut mhim some slack guys.We have been lucky to­ have him.

    From carlos480bc, on Thu 9 Apr 10:17PM
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