Bulgarian tennis player Grigor Dimitrov said that it wasn’t easy playing against Swiss tennis superstar Roger Federer, who admittedly is his idol. The young tennis pro lost to Federer in the quarterfinals of the Swiss Indoors Basel tournament in straight sets last week.
“He wasn’t easy to play against, but that’s what I expected. Sometimes I was expecting certain shots and in actual fact they would go the other way,” Dimitrov said. “You have to forget you are playing against your idol, because the guy on the other side also wants to play better than you and beat you. I don’t think you should allow yourself to think like this when you go against any player. It was a great experience overall. Hopefully next time it will be a better battle.”
Dimitrov is currently working on a trial basis with Roger Rasheed, an Australian coach who worked recently with Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
