Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Australian Open: Roger Federer works hard to beat Andreev in opener

Australian Open: Roger Federer works hard to beat Andreev in opener
Australian Open: Roger Federer works hard to beat Andreev in opener

Roger Federer defeated Igor Andreev 4-6 6-2 7-6 6-0 in the first round of the Australian Open 2010 tennis tournament.
In the next round, Federer will play against victor hanescu, who beat juan ignacio Chela 64 63 76.

Federer began the tennis match breaking Andreev’s serve and taking a 3-1 lead. The Russian broke back and leveled the set at 3-3 before breaking the world number 1 to claim the set 6-4.

In the second set, Federer started to dominate Andreev and took it 6-2.

Andreev refused to give up and in the third set broke Federer for a 2-1 lead. Roger broke straight back and then again to lead 5-3 but to the world number 1 surprised the set was not even close to be over. Andreev took the two breaks back and found himself serving for the third set.

Andreev missed three set points and Federer forced the tie-break, dominating it 7-2 before grabbing a 2-0 lead in the fourth set.

Federer was untroubled in claiming it 6-0 to advance to the second round.

“Something missed, you know, something went wrong,” Andreev said. “Today, the key point was third set when I didn’t use the set points. Then after that, maybe I went a little bit down in the fourth physically, mentally.”

Even he needed 2 hours and 44 minutes Federer said he was pleased with his match throughout.

“It was a tough match. I knew from the start it wasn’t going to be an easy one,” he said. “But I reacted and I think I played a very good match.”

“A few hiccups, but I think those are more due to his good play and because of also playing against the wind,” he said.

“He got tired in the fourth set a little bit. If you can take advantage of it, the tougher player comes through.”


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