Roche: Fed will get better

Roche - Federer's coach for the past two years - also said that Federer is within touching distance of emulating Rod Laver's calendar year grand slams of 1962 and 1969 by winning all four majors this year.

"Roger hasn't even started to use a lot of his game," Roche said on his return home to Sydney from Melbourne.

"I think Roger's best years are ahead of him. I think his big years are when he is 26, 27, 28 as that is when he will be both mature and at his physical peak. I think he will become a better player in many respects.

"It is a challenge for all of those who are trying to stop him but they are playing against a man who will probably enter tennis history as the best ever.

"He is like a good red wine, he is getting better with age."

With his 7-6 6-4 6-4 demolition of Chilean Fernando Gonzalez, Federer became the first player to win a major without dropping a set since Bjorn Borg won the 1980 French Open.

Federer also added his tenth major title in the last 15 grand slams and only has the French Open trophy missing from his collection.

"When Roger starts off a year, he always says that he will be happy to win one slam but winning two would be great and winning three would be fantastic," Roche said.

"The grand slam would be the ultimate. I had always thought that it would be impossible for anyone to do the grand slam again after Laver. And then I met Roger.

"That [the French Open] could be the most important thing right now,"