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Musing over that wicked forehand winner that launched the dramatic turnaround after Djokovic booked his place in Monday's final with a  6-7 (7), 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, 7-5 win, a bitterly disappointed Federer would repeat the precise word his interlocutor used: "Confidence? Are you kidding me? I mean, please. Look, some players grow up and play like that. I remember losing junior matches. Just being down 5-2 in the third, and they all just start slapping shots. It all goes in for some reason, because that's the kind of way they grew up playing when they were down.

"I never played that way. I believe in hard work's gonna pay off kinda thing, because early on maybe I didn't always work at my hardest. So for me, this is very hard to understand how can you play a shot like that on match point. . . maybe he's been doing it for 20 years so for him it was normal. You've got to ask him."