Two total smashing victories for Roger at Wimbledon so far, it's a good sign for his chances at winning his 17th slam and reclaiming No.1! He beat Albert Ramos 6-1 6-1 6-1 and Fabio Fognini 6-1 6-3 6-2, dominant on serve and net play. That's only 9 games dropped in two matches, which is impressive for a player his age.
Both Ramos and Fognini were at no stage a threat to Roger and his aggressive play left them standing. The unforced error count has reduced - another good sign as in RG he was hitting many uncharacteristic errors which cost him sets in the early rounds and almost lost to Del Potro.
Roger has come into Wimbledon's early rounds with a much different game plan than he did at Roland Garros, serve and volley was one of the reasons why he played so here on grass, serving accuracy is higher now and he has also reduced his count of unforced errors - in RG, he hit at least 30 each match.
Roger will play Julien Benneteau next, who actually beat him in the 2nd Rd at Bercy 09 in their last meeting. There's no way he can do the same here, so I pick Roger to win 6-1 6-4 6-3. “I was serving well,” said Federer. “You're not going to get many chances throughout a set, maybe, against me, when I'm serving well. I didn't think it was that easy of a match. [I] really tried to focus hard and made sure I played sort of a clean match, which I was able to do again today.”
I have decided to scrap Roger's semifinal match against Youzhny, it was a great match for Roger and superfast as well, there was nothing to really to write - summing the match up Roger was just too good as he usually always is.
Roger was the favourite coming into this match, he started off breaking Haas in the first game and held serve but not before long Haas broke back after a mishit forehand by Roger at break point. Roger didn't have the aggression in his shots suddenly and Haas was hittin... Continue reading...
The clay court season was very difficult for Roger but now its back to grass at the Gerry Weber Open in Halle which is one of my favourite tennis venues. Roger has won here five times before and was honoured this year with a street named after him.
Roger started Halle quite well, beating Florian Mayer 6-4 7-5, firing 11 aces and prevented the German from converting his only break point opportunity. The grass courts at Halle are pretty fast and Roger adapted well from clay courts to play som... Continue reading...
Roger suffered a straight sets loss to Novak Djokovic ending his hopes of a 17th slam. He was the slight favourite coming into this match after the two marathon matches Djokovic played, but even that didn't prevent Djokovic from overpowering him. I had limited live streaming and had to use my mobile for live scores from the second set. Overall, other than a few great rallies, it was a boring match.
A lot of momentum swings in this match, Roger started well, played aggressive, broke to lead 3-2... Continue reading...
Sorry about the delayed posts, I was a bit too busy in the past few days. I've decided to summarize Roger's past three matches all in one post.
FEDERER VS MAHUT Another slight test for Roger, he didn't really keep his rhythm throughout the whole match. Mahut played well, considering clay courts don't favour his style. He broke Roger in the fourth set, but failed to consolidate it and Roger closed out the match 6-3 4-6 6-2 7-5.
FEDERER VS GOFFIN Goffin played extremely well at the start of match a... Continue reading...
I must say, I'm slightly concerned about Roger performance so far in RG. He's been playing his C game in both matches, if this goes on, he might not even make the semis. It's fair to say Ungur was playing well for his standards after upsetting Nalbandian in the 1st Rd and he'd never played Roger before.
Roger was looking fine in the first two sets taking them 6-3 6-2, he saved two set points at 4-5 in the third, forced the set into a tiebreak. He played some 1st strike tennis and held two mat... Continue reading...
An okay performance by Federer's standards in this match 6-2 7-5 6-3, but in the first round of a grand slam doesn't give anything away of his actual performance. There's been times where Roger has played well up to the quarters and he drops off suddenly - most recently in Melbourne this year where he was the favourite after beating Del Potro in straight sets.
Back to the match, it was a bit messy - 47 unforced errors from Rog in a comfortable three set match is dreadful, but as I said above,... Continue reading...
Roger will meet Novak Djokovic for the 25th in the Rome semifinal after dismissing Andreas Seppi, who at no stage at all, posed a threat. The Federer Express had an astounding 81% 1st serve accuracy and won in 54 minutes.
Earlier, Roger was tested against 2003 French Open champion Juan Carlos Ferrero in a three set match, but on that occasion he was never looking at departing.
I predict its going to be a tight 3 setter, Djokovic played Tsonga in his quarterfinal and totally crushed him. But y... Continue reading...
A very nice start for Roger, an easy victory against clay court specialist Carlos Berlocq 6-3 6-4. He managed to adapt quickly to the different conditions and the slow red clay compared to Madrid. There were not really any problems after it was looking that Roger might withdraw from Rome due to preparations for Roland Garros and Wimbledon.
Roger started extremely well, breaking Berlocq's serve and taking the first set 6-3. A good strategy from Roger by coming into the net as he won 18 out of ... Continue reading...
A great fighting performance by Roger today to win his 20th Masters 1000 title, he now ties the record with Nadal. I must say I wasn't expecting Berdych to play so well, especially in the first set where he broke in Roger's first service game and eventually won the set 6-3. Roger's shot placement wasn't good, and the explosive Berdych serve kept him from returning balls effectively.
A crucial moment came in the 2nd set where Roger broke to take a 2-0 lead. He kept the serve clutch, but was u... Continue reading...
