Roger Federer has beaten countless opponents during his fabulous career, and he has a fantastic record against most of them. At the recent Rogers Cup, the Swiss sensation beat David Ferrer for the 17th time, and that didn’t feel “right” for the Maestro that commented: “I’m not 100 per cent comfortable with the head-to-head I have against David [17-0] because I have so much respect for him.”

Sometimes I feel sorry. FEDERER

During a post-match interview, Roger added

“In the juniors, yeah, probably my two times when I beat Chiudinelli because we grew up together in Basel, we played soccer against each other.

We were best friends way back when. We played twice on the Tour, once in Qatar, once in Basel in our home tournament, in the semis. Both times I won, I was like, ah, s**t. I wished he won as well because it would have done much more for his career than for me.

Yeah, in the juniors, I just felt sometimes when I used to play guys, you know, somewhere in the world where I felt like technically maybe they were struggling. I just felt like, oh, he’s trying so hard, he’s such a fighter.I don’t know; I feel like probably he works harder than I do, so he probably deserves it more. Then he beat me, and I’m like, I feel so bad. I’m such an idiot for falling into that trap.”

Roger will try to feel sorry again for Robin Haase that will be his next opponent in the Montreal semifinal.