Federer does not expect Hewitt to take the risk of radically changing his counterpunching baseline game. ''He could, you know,'' Federer said. ''But then again, he could even run into the knife more brutally.''

"I don't play doubles often, but when I do, I tend to win a lot."

"It's good to see Davydenko back at this playing level," Federer said. "Fortunately for me, he wasn't good enough to knock me out."

Murray wins 3 straight titles in Asia...

"I’m not taking anything away from what Andy did, but was Asia the strongest this year?" asked Federer. "I’m not sure. Novak (Djokovic) wasn’t there, I wasn’t there and (in Shanghai) Rafa lost early. But it has been a good effort by him after losing to Kevin Anderson in Montreal (in August). Don’t forget how things were looking then."

"I'm shocked every time that I've reached so many finals or won against so many players or whatever record it is," Federer said. "It strikes me and makes me obviously very happy and very proud that I've been able to do it for so many years at the highest of levels."

""I get standing ovations 99 percent of the time - doesn't matter if the performance was great or not so great."

Slam number 16

"There's no secret behind it," Federer told reporters. "I'm definitely a very talented player. I always knew I had something special, but I didn't know it was like, that crazy."