The world’s greatest tennis players, both active and retired, watch with wide-eyed disbelief as Federer continues, nearly unstoppable.

Andy Roddick said that he felt Federer was actually still improving – which was “kind of scary”. John McEnroe exclaimed that, until he saw Federer play, he had believed that he himself used to have a “pretty good game” but that it couldn’t hold a candle to Federer’s aggressive strategy. Even seasoned sports writers scramble for adjectives in an attempt to describe the “Federer Phenomenon”, so complete are his achievements and so flawless is his style.