The ex- German tennis player Boris Becker, three times champion of Wimbledon, assured today to EFE that the Spanish Rafael Nadal is “without a doubt the player of the year” while the Swiss Roger Federer, number one of the world, “will have to reach to Nadal and to surpass it”, in declarations made in London.

To little days of the beginning of the match of older tennis of the world, Becker made a review at the moment that better players both live on the world and affirmed that “Federer is again the favorite to take Wimbledon”.

Nevertheless, teutón considers that the Spanish tennis player, to whom defined as “very powerful”, “will play better and with more east confidence year”.

“Nadal is without a doubt the player of the year. Federer must reach it and to surpass it”, explained. “Even so, Federer already has done that in the past so I do not see reason for which it cannot do it again”.

The German, a player who marked a time in the London match, declared that he is a “enthusiastic one of the duels between Nadal and Federer “.

In comparison with the tennis of his time and its duels with Ivan Lendl or John McEnroe, Becker thinks that then there was more competitiveness and considers that the problem at the present time is that Swiss and the Spanish “wins too much easily”.

“If they had stronger competitors could show more personality like players”, clarified.

Boris Becker, also winning of two Opened of Australia and a Open the USA, thinks that Federer could arrive to be remembered like one of the best ones for all time with no need to gain a Roland Garros.

“Everything will depend on how many times Wimbledon wins and the other Grand Slam. Pete Sampras, for me the best player of history, never gained the Open one of Paris but she gained seven Wimbledon times and five times Open the USA”, clarified.

Becker, east commentator year in Wimbledon, praised the reforms of the match as far as the equality in the prizes between men and women and the technological conquests like the new system of measurement, “Hawk Eye (Eye of Hawk)”.

The one that outside number one of the world in the decade of the 80 thinks that these improvements will serve so that Wimbledon “adapts to the new times like they have made the rest of the matches” and continues this way “being the first match of the world”.