Federer will likely have to avenge his Wimbledon loss this year to Anderson to reach the semi-finals, although all four players in the group could still mathematically progress.

He deserved that win at Wimbledon but hopefully I'll get my revenge. The Sydney Morning Herald. Sports News Updated. By Reuters Staff 3 Min Read.

He seemed to be waiting for Anderson's ground game to break down. It never did. I couldn't really get the rallies going the way I wanted to, especially the one-two punch wasn't working at all today," Federer said, referring to the deadly combination of his serve and first-strike forehand.

Perhaps it was the breeze, Federer said, or maybe just a bad day on his side of the net. But he said he never really felt percent. It was one of those days when, in the waning moments when it really counted, he was unable to put together one of those breathtaking blasts of genius that breaks down even the gamest of opponents.

In the coming days and weeks there's bound to be a great deal of speculation about what this means for Federer in the long term.

There certainly was a ragged quality to parts of his game in the late stages, as he struggled to keep both an unruly forehand and his backhand in line.

Ah, there's that magic number, and that issue that will hang over Federer's head until the day he decides to call it quits. Some, as eager to identify the moment a champion fails as the moment he first triumphs, may say this could be the beginning of the end.

It certainly was a big lead he let slip, the first match he lost in five sets after winning the first two since Novak Djokovic came back to eliminate him in the U.

Open semis of But this was a quarterfinal at a Wimbledon where Federer had literally ripped through four previous matches.

And Anderson is a lean and sinewy ball punisher, a year-old who has worked tirelessly and more or less anonymously to become a Top 10 staple. No shame in losing to a player in that group by any score or number of sets on Wimbledon grass.

I don't remember. It was one of those matches where Tsitsipas should have won it, but both great onehanded backhand already, and, you know, I remember Denis was just going for broke, basically.

The more important it became, the bigger he went. Yeah, big fan of his game, so it's going to be tough tomorrow. Next up is Denis Shapovalov who again came from a set down to defeat Frances Tiafoe over on Grandstand.

The Canadian is into his third Masters final semi-final and he's come through some real tests this week defeating Evans, Tsitsipas and now Tiafeo in three sets.

Roger has never played the left-hander before but they have practised together on hard courts so I think he knows what to expect. Shapo has a huge hard-hitting game but he's still fairly raw so I think Fed will continue his gameplan of mixing it up and baiting Shapovalov into going for too much.

Roger has a pretty good record against left-handers too so I like his chances. I'm sure Shapo will take confidence from seeing what Thiem was able to do two weeks ago in Indian Wells so you can't write him off and as Roger said, it's going to be tough.

Hopp Schwiiz! I was thinking about getting mess after giving break back on second set but Roger played good 9th game even after some gutsy saves by Kevin.

Yeah lies, damned lies and statistics. They cannot. Disagreement happens when you try to elaborate a judgment based on them. And even this is incomplete.

And so on. So, folks, please stop blaming the numbers and instead analyze the use we humans make of them and the fallibility of our judgement,.

But when you look past the numbers, I played every test match against Zimbabwe, then the numbers mean nothing. Same for breakpoints, if won a match , and the stats says I am 1 out of 30 on break points.

Then wow, what a joke. Except watch the match and all thirty breaking points came at and my opponent hit 29 aces on every break point before I converted to take it So much fun and yes worth the late night.

It was all on show and so enjoyable watching the confidence soar from 1st game. Denis will be full of vim and vigour but yes I expect that low slice to play havoc again and the sheer variety.

Tiafoe played such a classic corner to corner baseline slugger game. My user rating shld be 4. Hard to hit it right!!

I docked him. Completely off-topic: why was Tiafoe given a female name? Frances is female, Francis is male. Completely on-topic: wow!

Huh, less true where? If you picked out a people named Frances I bet 0 of them are male. Or 1 if Tiafoe was in the lineup. Hope he can pull it off.

Matches have worked out quite well, test early to get used to conditions and from there he has played efficient as poss.

Log in Sign up. Log out. James Matthey jamesmatthey. That was only the beginning. It was vintage stuff from the time grand slam champion.

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