Roger Federer Australian Open Favorite? Improved Health, Training Fuel Quest To Rejoin Tennis Elite in 2014 [VIDEO] : TENNIS : Sports World News

Roger Federer is out to show that stories of his demise are unfounded.

The Australian-based web site, theage.com.au, reported right now that the 32-year-old Swiss tennis star thinks he can add to his 17 Grand Slam championships in 2014.

“I at all times imagine that I’ve improved over the past 10 years, you understand, that I’ve not gone backwards, and I have been in a position to win (the Open) 10 years in the past, so I at all times really feel as I transfer ahead I’m a extra full participant, a greater participant,” Federer mentioned in a Friday teleconference to advertise a Jan. 8 charity occasion in Rod Laver Enviornment in Brisbane, Australia. “That is why I’ll at all times imagine that I can win, so long as my physique is holding up and mentally I am actually hungry travelling the world and taking part in matches, and that’s the case proper now – I am very wholesome and coaching extraordinarily exhausting.”

Federer completed 2013 with out making an look in a Grand Slam ultimate for the primary time since 2002. His rating dropped to sixth by season’s finish, only one yr after he regained the No. 1 rating on the planet.

He says damage curtailed his performances final season, extra so than Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic.

“Some success has come again additionally on the finish of final yr, which is kind of vital for me, for my confidence, as a result of I used to be actually in a troublesome spot from Wimbledon all the best way till Basel, I might say, with simply combating my confidence after which, notably, additionally my again challenge. I could not actually practice the best way I wished to for a while, and now it is actually picked up once more and I feel I am actually transferring in the proper route.”

Federer completed 2013 with considerably of a flourish, profitable 9 of his final 13 occasions and reaching the finals of the Swiss Indoors Basel earlier than shedding to Juan Martin del Potro in three units.

The latest play has given Federer some confidence in opposition to the top-seeded participant at subsequent month’s Australian Open.

“I actually hope to be taking part in my very best (there), which I actually assume is feasible, after which something is feasible for me, I personally imagine that.

“It is simply vital for me that I play higher in opposition to the highest guys. It is not been dangerous this yr, however I simply did not land sufficient wins, in order that’s one thing I need to enhance for this yr.”

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