players: ("Laver wants to see Murray more aggressive", headlined the BBC). With Fed it is deeply caculated stealthy intent writ large in his body language and immediately communicatable to anyone even, my wife who knows nothing about tennis. She came in half way through and said: "Murry is following him.... Federer is making all the shots....", It is the big Fed psyche out, as he oozes body language that says, "I am the boss here", and lesser plays don't have it. What must be hard for Murray is that as hard as he works to adapt and develop Federer's game is also maturing over time, and yet as hard as he works he will never have the Fed aura. Fed really is an inspiration in life, where the tennis game is a microcosm of life, requiring heart, patient thinking, physical courage, self-discipline, perseverence, level-headedness, self-control and where fortune favours the brave. (There are so many existential levels where the Fed phenomenon is just soo beautiful to behold). That is all we can ask of our sports stars in the end - to be that inspiration. I am just glad the Fed did it one last time, if he never does it again, to shut up those who began to erode his repute with snide remarks | re his demise and decrepitude. Tennis outsider that I am, is the No.1 ranking all that important within the game, or is it just an add on to the main GS events? I only