Roger Federer Expects US Open 2019 to be Faster Than Last Year

Twenty time Grand Slam champion, Roger Federer haven’t won the US Open title since more than a decade. Last year, the Swiss Maestro fell short of John Millman in the fourth round in New York.

In an interview in Cincinnati, Roger Federer predicted how the speed of the 2019 US Open surface is going to look like. After the court was slowed down last year, Roger Federer believes that the courts in New York will be a little faster as compared to the last year.

The 38-year-old explained there are speculations that the surface will not be as slow as the last edition of the US Open. He said, “I heard rumors that it was not going to be as slow as last year. Because somehow people said it ended up coming up a bit too slow on the slower side.”

However, the Swiss suggested that the surface at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center will be a bit faster than the previous year. He further added, “So I don’t know what to tell you. I guess it’s never going to be as fast as here, but I believe it’s going to be just a tad bit faster than last year. I think last year was, for a US Open, very much on the slower side.”

Last year, the tournament director of the US Open agreed that they had purposely made the courts slower. He said, “In the general feedback, we’ve gotten from players the last couple of years, a range of players, both male and female, the commonality we seemed to have been getting was: The courts were sort of gradually creeping up in speed.’

Brewer further added in the interview, “We just felt we needed to address that a little bit this year. At the same time, we wanted to ensure we had really good consistency across all courts.”