After losing miserably to Rafael Nadal on Sunday, June 8, 2008, the World Number 1 Roger Federer has now put all his hopes on his impending match on the green grass court of Wimbledon. A win there, he hopes, should peacefully lay to rest the memory of the worst defeat of his career and a miserable first half of the year. Roger Federer limped out from Roland Garros on Sunday after losing ungracefully to clay court arch-rival Rafael Nadal during the French Open final.

 

The coming week Federer will be playing his Wimbledon warm up in Germany’s Halle town and thereafter leave for southwest London where he has been winning since the past five years. Roger Federer is confident that he remains untouched psychologically by the damage caused by such a big defeat at the French Open in Paris and that he will find positives to put it all behind him. The defeat on Sunday was Roger Federer’s eighth in the season and he has just won only one title at Estoril. This had happened after rival player Nikolay Davydenko pulled out injured before the final.