If you haven’t heard it by now, Federer is in a funk. He has had a difficult season, and has not reached any finals. He has even lost to Americans Fish and Roddick in Masters tournaments. The solution? Higueras! Federer is turning to the coach to change his French Open fortune. Winning the French is the only way you could call this year less than disappointing for Federer. SI has this breaking story here.
Higueras is a great coach, and I am sure for anyone but Federer he could be a fortune changer. But Federer has shown in the past that he is so strong-willed that he will not change his ways easily just because his coach tells him too. In the end, if Higueras gets Federer to play a more attacking type of game on the clay courts of France, Federer will finally challenge Nadal. If not, Higueras will be another Roche.