On Federer

One difference between the players is illustrated on their faces when they strike the ball. Nadal and Djokovic come to meet the wide ball with open mouths, frowning at it as if they have arrived to dispatch it in anger, wage war on it. Federer's face is entirely uncreased when he swings through the ball, as though, even in the fury of that moment as it unfolds in real time, he's engaged in a soft conversation with it. The beauty of artful Roger TIMOTHY BOYLE The Age online, 15/7/2011