oys bro! "poetry in motion" - well put! btw, just to let you know if you have missed, several exhibitional matches are going to be held later this year between Roger and the former king of grass court - Pete Sampras. while pete is quite a fan of federer's poetries, he claims that the game has slowed down considerably over the last few years and players are no more risk takers enough to come to the net and "play serve and volley". perhaps he is trying to point out the rationale behind federer's domination in the court. :P here's an excerpt from the article: In summary, Sampras doesn't think much of the grasscourt tennis currently being played. He doesn't sound terribly convinced that he - soon to turn 36, five years after he walked away from tennis after winning his 14th grand slam title at the US Open - couldn't still get to the net against these guys and put away vintage Pistol Pete volleys. These guys would include the four-time defending champion, Roger Federer, whom Sampras recalled sparring with in Los Angeles this year and, as he said on Tuesday during a conference call to promote World Team Tennis, "holding serve pretty handily". The "sad" problem, as Sampras sees it, is that players have surrendered to the slower conditions, the stronger racquets, the fear of risk. He has been watching Federer hang on the baseline, toy with lesser players who won't dare push him the way Boris Becker and Stefan Edberg and Goran Ivanisevic and Patrick Rafter used to chip, charge and challenge Sampras across the 1990s. "If there is anything Roger doesn't like to see, it is someone coming in and serving and volleying, someone putting pressure on him," Sampras said. "I think my game matched up reasonably well against his." click hereto read the full article.