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Yeah... those are good points, but it doesn't address the fact that Federer compiled a ton of slams when his toughest outs were Andy Roddick and Leyton Hewitt.
First of all, Roddick and Hewitt are not terrible. They were #1 at one time and were grandslam champions. Federer made them look terrible eventhough they were good enough to reach the finals. Game evolves constantly, so players of the previous generations will usually look terrible unless they were otherwordly talents. Btw, he also played and beat players like Safin, Agassi, Nadal, Djokovic, Murray in his slam finals.
Second, what do you want to us to address? You want Federer to pick his finals competition? He can only play whoever makes to the grandslam final. He can't go back in time and pick Sampras to play in his wimbledon finals or go forward and grab Djokovic at his peak to play in the US open finals(although he did play him in couple of semis and showed that even against the toughest of competition, he's good enough to compete on even terms at 30 yrs of age. Imagine him at 25 when his speed, reflexes and confidence are at an all time high).
It's strange that only Federer is being blamed for his finals competition. What about Sampras? Was he playing Agassi in every grandslam final? Look at the names Borg beat in his 6 french open wins. Or his wimbledon wins. Or Laver when he completed his slams. A player can't choose his competition. We can only judge him based on how he handles his competition. And Federer handled them pretty well..