re: The Unofficial 2018 Australian Open Thread

Those gifs and that shot...SMH.

I'm not sure if the casual fan realizes this, but anyone who has played any amount of tennis, even high level juniors etc., knows how extremely difficult that shot was. Amazing even.

Fed's ability to take balls on the rise/short hop like this, especially with a one-handed backhand, is simply incredible. Maybe he's not the quickest, fastest, hardest hitter, etc. (although he's obviously in the top 1% of the best at those even), but his feet and hand eye coordination have to be the best. And mentally, in a sport where so many of the top players even display their negativity openly to their own detriment, he is ridiculously calm and even keeled.