34-year-old Federer is back in Melbourne Park with the dreams of capturing his 18th Grand Slam title.
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Throw in Andreas Seppi’s upset win over Federer past year at the Australian Open and there is enough evidence to suggest that Dolgopolov has what it takes to cause trouble this afternoon.
“Alexandr can play great when you give him too much time so maybe it wasn’t a bad thing that it was as fast as it was”.
The Japanese player was broken serving for the second set when he double-faulted and he was far from convincing in the tiebreaker, before finally sealing it when the American’s forehand went wide.
The Swiss maestro revealed that after storming into the third round of the Australian Open yesterday.
His 6-3, 4-6, 6-2, 7-5 win over Argentina’s Marco Trungelliti was not as fluent as he would like but the Bulgarian is carrying some confidence.
On Tuesday, No. 8-seeded Williams trudged off Rod Laver Arena after her surprising 6-4, 6-3 loss to Johanna Konta, a British player making her debut in the Grand Slam’s main draw. “So that’s why, for me, it’s quite obvious that [a tennis career], it’s not going to happen”.
Williams eased lingering concerns over the state of her injured knee as she obliterated the Taiwanese, even pulling off possibly her first ever round-the-net shot for good measure. He hit 15 aces among 43 winners. She reached the tournament second week as a qualifier in 2008, but had only won two matches here since. “What we are talking about is corruption”, he told a news conference Monday called to reject claims that any evidence on match-fixing had been suppressed or gone unchecked. It’s also harder to return, clearly. He’s got the game to be really unsafe.
The second set was more competitive, reaching 5-5, but then a couple of fatal errors from Dolgopolov and Federer broke.
She closed with an ace, her seventh, finishing in precisely an hour.
Roger Federer hopes his children choose not to follow in their father’s footsteps as the Swiss says he would grow bored with 40 years of tennis.
With the second set tied 5-5, Federer unleashed a perfectly executed, down-the-line backhand for break point. No 22 Ivo Karlovic retired due to a left knee injury while trailing Federico Delbonis 7-6 (4), 6-4, 2-1.
He made it clear that he’d like another sporting direction for his two sets of twins – six-year-old daughters and one-year-old sons.
But her service game again let her down and Sharapova capitalised to secure the set in 38 minutes. He has struggled to maintain the level of play he had in 2014 that peaked with his semi-final run at Wimbledon.
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“But, I’m a big fan of his game”. In a repeat of last year’s final, he faced Canadian player and fourth seed Milos Raonic but lost in straight sets 6-4 6-4. If you look at the positive side, he should have, could have won the tournament.
