Federer Cruises Into Hamburg Quarters

Roger Federer create a huge improvement in his performance as compared to the previous match, where he had to come back from a set down against Daniel Brands.  In 3rd round match against Czech J Hajek, he was looking more committed.  He displayed a good performance to reach quarterfinals.   He got the victory by 6-4 6-3.

Federer Is Serving Against Hajek

In the opening set, first few games were very tricky one, because both of guys exchange breaks of serves.  Until the score was 3-3.  Now it was on serve.  Federer was serving to get 4-3 lead, but that was not easy because he was 15-40 down in this game and had to face two break points.  He saved those break points by blasting winner and a huge serve.  That was huge boost up for Federer.  In the very next game, Federer tried to break Hajek and was at 30-40 up.  But Hajek served a good one down the tea which Federer only managed to touch.  He hold that serve to get himself into even terms 4-4.  In the next game Federer hold his serve to 30 and forced Hajek to serve to stay in the set.  Federer considered it a huge opportunity and tried his best to break Hajek and take the set.  He produced and couple of set points on Hajek serve but Hajek saved initially all those set points.  But Federer continued his try and produce another set point, and it was moment when Federer converted the set point to take the set by 6-4 in 39 minutes.

Federer Thanking Crowd After Victory

In the second set, Federer quickly hold serve to love in the opening game of the second set.  Hajek also remained firm on his serve and set goes on serve until 3-2.  Now Hajek was serving to level the set, but Federer did not let him to do that and broke him to 15 to take 4-2 lead.  He confirmed that break by holding the very next game to get 5-2 lead.  Now Hajek was serving to stay in the match.  Federer again tried to seal the match there and produced a couple of match points, but all those match points were saved by Hajek due to his huge serve.  Now Federer had to serve it out, and he did that in style.  He fired a huge ace at match point to get his place in the quarterfinals in 72 minutes.  He will face florian Mayer of Germany in quraterfinals.  Federer is 4-0 head to head against him.


In other matches Tommy Haas beat Carlos Berlocq by 6-2 6-4.  In another match Fernando Verdasco beat no 4 seed Jerzy Janowicz, when he was forced to retire.