50 Ridiculously Good Returns by Roger Federer 

Return drive winner, return drop shot, return SABR and returns where Fed just blocks & redirects awkward body serves! Roger is the most underrated returner - his sharp reflexes & racquet skills make this a total treat. RazOls killed it again 😀

7:32 WHAT A RETURN 7:36 WHAT A RETURN 7:47 WHAT A RETURN

Federer's BH really looks so elegant and graceful

One of the very best in most aspects of the game and the most complete player ever .

The Maestro!

Watching this is way more fun than some of the grunt fest ATP matches these days ….

He's the GOAT. Too bad people under the age of 30 or so will disagree since they've never experienced his prime in real-life

Federer is for me especially a very good first serve returner. I mean how many time do we see Federer returning absolutely huge serves such as Roddick’s serve, Isner, Karlovic, Raonic. His backhand block return is one of the best defensive shot on the tour not too mention his terrific reflex and anticipation. His second serve returns are solid, not as good than his first serve return, he is very good at attacking the second serve from the forehand side. It’s his backhand return on the second serve that can get a bit iffy. They are days where his backhand return on the second serve is not there. He tries to hit through the backhand more, late in his career with varying results. Often it’s a good indicator of how confident he is on the court when his aggressive backhand returns are effective.

9:40 Nadal has that "In or out, I don't care. I just want this nightmare to end" face XD

Fascinating stuff Raz! the 136mph return vs. Kyrgios was absolutely insane.

Magic and creativity never to be seen again

Without doubt, Federer is the most talented, beautiful, vesatile player ever to play tennis. Variety of shots he plays, is far more than combined of Nadal or Novak. His volley , stop volley, backend, forehand and dropshots are very pleasing to watch. To play for 20 over yrs with very high consistency is simply amazing. And above all, he is very humble, down to earth always easy going with his fans and media. We hardly read or hear ppl say bad things abt him. It is astonoshing to know that he has never retired half way in 1500 plus matches he has played. This shows how much he loves Tennis.. No other player has this effect on public past 50 yrs plus. No wonder he gets so much love, respect and attention from Reporters, players and public.. Even if Novak wins 25 Slams, he can never match talent, skill, charishma, elegance and popularity of Federer. Novak may go down as Goat but Federer is Lion ( king who rules)..👌🏻👌🏻..

Roger is the most gracious player ever. A true joy to watch

Fantastic stuff. Other players may end up having a better claim to the GOAT title, but Roger is the one and only MAESTRO.

I really hope he can make a comeback and win a slam or two. I know he has it in him, but I'm concerned about his injuries. 😞 To me he is the goat.

I'm a huge Fed fan, and I haven't seen 90% of these. Great work. Well done. Cheers and thanks so much.

The most underrated returner and defensive player in tennis, raz can u make a vid about feds 2017 backhand its so elegant and neo version was so pretty

Those rocket backhand returns - oh-my-God!

You cant teach the anticipation 🐐

Guys, it's Roger.

Thanks for paying heed to my request and including the replays I am commenting late on this video though. Federer's reflexes and and hand eye coordination are just other worldly. That's what allows him to return the biggest serves by standing right on the baseline with an effortless ease. And I suppose only he can return serves with drop shot winners 😆

Those Backhand returns especially 🔥

Federer is the most complete player I have ever seen.

Thank you for uploading this! It’s a great birthday gift!

This was special video. Thanks Raz. Never seen many of these. Just love

Wonderful video as always Raz! It’s a pity we didn’t see his 140+ mph return against Roddick at the 2007 USO or his multiple return winners against Karlovic at 2012 AO. There’s some other notable ones I remember too: the opening point of his 2010 USO semi against Djokovic where he hit an acute backhand inside-out angle off a 120 mph serve… - The crazy down-the-line chip vs Fognini, Wimby 2012, 115 mph - The time he DEFLECTED a *142 mph* serve against Groth at the 2014 USO - Magical backhand blocks against Isner first serves at USO 2015 in the second set tiebreak - Inside-out forehand return winners against Nadal at the 06 and 07 Wimby finals - *And lastly the match-saving crosscourt backhand he hit down championship point 7-8, 30-40 against Nadal in Wimby 08 while pissed off*

Thanks for posting, I remember them all. :)

Beautiful, elegant, a Maestro for a reason 🤩! What an amazing work Raz 🙏

The Fed is tennis incarnate. A never-before-never-again phenomenon. I've always thought his return was underrated...and many intelligent commenters have pointed out those qualities that make the Fed such a good returner. They've also mentioned certain deficiencies, like his somewhat passive second-serve returns, especially on important points like BPs. Despite his ability to hit RoS winners and despite having hit countless such over his career, I think the passivity is attributable to Fed's overall mindset of wanting to get into the point. Once that happens, he can become the more offensive player, but the idea of making a UE by going for a big return is what holds him back. I don't think it's been a great tactic...but, then again, you can't really change someone's temperament. Here's a statistic taken from a bunch that I compiled when examining the minutiae of the Djokovic-Federer H2H. The fact that the Djoker has a fair claim to being the greatest RoS in the Open Era (he may not do as well as Fed against the _really_ big servers but his RoS, on the whole, is sublime) _and_ has a pretty good serve _himself_ is what makes Fed's BP ratio particularly impressive. "In Bof3 matches, the Fed-Djoker H2H is 16-16 (with matches played between 2006-2019). For these 32 matches, the in-match statistics for the Fed are: PD = 1.05; GD = 1.15; BP ratio = 1.05 (he even leads this against possibly the game's greatest returner...confirming my opinion that Fed's return is highly underrated); total points won = 50.6%; games won = 51.5%; sets won = 52.6%. In short, the Fed leads the Djoker in every one of these categories , an astonishing feat." As usual, some unseem gems in this, Raz. Thanks! P.S: I do wish you'd go back to your old intro. I don't remember it exactly any more, but I'm certain it was more...soothing. 🙂

“What a return...how good was that?” 🎾🍾❤️

The serve is always an exciting start to a point. It's where the server has the best advantage to put in a speedy hard serve, but yet also exposes the server to a good receiving shot as well. Roddick's super serves for example at high speeds leave him exposed because he's yet to recover his footing position from the exertion of the serve. If like Roger, you have lightning quick reflexes to hit a return in such a way as to take advantage of the momentum of the served ball by roddick, you get that point a few times.

Surprised the returns against Groth weren't shown. Groth is a monster server

the physics roger utilizes for most of these returns is so elegant in its simplicity: firm racquet, precise angle, and use the opponent's velocity rather than have to supply it himself. the impressive thing is the physiology it takes to execute these physics. from his elbow, forearm, wrist and grip, he has to be one of the strongest players since laver.

50 ridiculously good drop shots next?

Amazing !

Getting that 136 mph missile down the T from Kyrgios back was incredible. Best return of this video for me. That should have been an ace but instead was a pretty deep, line-licking return. Nick was probably in shock it came back.

Love the variety. Best pure player of all time.

I am A DIE HARD novak fan but ROGER IS EASILY THE GREATEST EVER👍👍

Necesitamos volver a verte roger...

Literally waiting for his RETURN🔥🔥🔥 GOAT🐐❤️❤️

creative ❤️‍🔥👏🏻

Can you do a video with one handed backhand returns winners? Thanks for this video.

Tennis Wizard 🧙‍♂️... So good 👍... All round player (Return Skill Included)... 🎾

Roger Federer is the King of tennis.

Such an underrated returner. But I have always been disappointed by his backhand returns since his prime (2007). He just seemed to have been fooling around with slice returns, instead of aggressively driving through them. He did that in 2017 and we saw how he made life difficult for others, especially Nadal.

Effortlessly beautiful

super

9:13 that's genius

09 uso to win the match after the tweener in the SF should be there too

class +

Never mind the tennis, is there a worse outfit than Wawrinka's checked shorts? But they're amazing returns. Perfect judgement plus taking the ball so early.

Part 1: forehands Part 2:backhands

It's crazy how that racketheadspeed is higher than mine even in slowmotion.

I think there was a huge serve from Roddick that he returned right at Andy's feet for a forced error as well. That serve was I think 140+ mph?

How many of those were second serve?

When Federer decides to TAS tennis

1:03 that's a 81 mph forehand but that's looks fast af

Unfortunately you missed his two best! One from the same kyrgios match where he chipped a first serve on set point to open the court. 2nd at 2008 Wimbledon, down championship Point he hit a cross court return winner.

GOAT where I sit

Could anything be more dispiriting for the server, so crushing.

Nadal's serve was one of the most difficult for RF to return. They have played so many times and, even with Rog in his prime and in the period when's Nadal's serve wasn't very good, he has not been able to attack Rafa's serve. Well, none of Rafa's shots in general... Up to recent years..

very much similar to steffi graf runaround forehand winners..

🙏👍 He doesn't have the most titles, it's true... but he's probably the best tennis player the world has ever seen. But the world is only now starting to realize it. Rafa, Djoker, Murray, Edberg, Borg, McEnroe, Alcaraz, are all fantastic incredible super good tennis players, Djoker is deservedly the most successful of them all. But only Federer had this genius, this playfulness. The closest is probably Sampras?! I miss Federer extremely watching tennis.

Third set 4/1 40-30 break point AO 2017 Final

Who else can return like this , winners. Plus ridiculous variation ?

Min 4:10 💙💙💙💙💙

That was better than a box of chocolates.

Why serve to his forehand? Have you seen his backhand?

impossible n'est pas Federer !

Roger can’t do this to my serves, because I mostly double fault !

Or 50 ridiculous bad serves

Tbh I´d never serve to his forehand.

“That’s not the technique you wanna work on for a return.” Well whaddya think Federer did you dummy?

I've been watching this dude play for 20 years now... Tennis seems bland now.

RF should retire. What is he waiting for ?