Tennis-Federer fully recovered from loss to Fish

By Sandra Harwitt

MIAMI, Fla., March 27 (Reuters) - World number one Roger Federer said on Thursday he had fully recovered from his semi-final loss to Mardy Fish at last week's Pacific Life Open.

"You move on, you analyse it, then you look forward. I feel fine now. I'm motivated and I'm confident on the practice courts," Federer told reporters at the Sony Ericsson Open.

The 26-year-old Swiss, who has won 12 grand slam titles, has made a slow start to his 2008 campaign due to a bout of glandular fever.

He has played in only three tournaments and is still looking for his first title of the year in Miami.

Federer reached the semi-finals at the Australian Open where he lost to eventual champion Novak Djokovic and lost in the first round in Dubai to Andy Murray.

"The sickness just before the Australian Open was the biggest problem for me, because that really sort of set me back a little bit," he said. "But I still played, I thought, very well throughout the event, and I just felt a little slow throughout."

Federer said he believed that once he got back into the swing of playing matches on a regular basis again his game would flourish as it had in the past.

Most of Federer's closest competitors agree with his positive outlook as his health improves.