Federer Advances Into Hamburg Semi Finals Haas Ousted

Top seed Roger Federer had to face a fierce test against home favourite Florian Mayer.  He beat Mayer under just two hours of thrilling tennis by 7-6(4) 3-6 7-5.  Federer never lost a set against Mayer in last four meetings, but this time Mayer was at his best.  He pushed Federer to the limits, because Federer had to use all of his abilities to come through this match.

Federer Is welcomed By Crowd

In the opening set all went on serve, none of the player gave any chance to other to even see some break points.  Only Federer had only one break point opportunity in 6th game, which Mayer saved by huge serve. At last this set had to be decided in the tie-break.  In this tie-break Federer played his best tennis got got this breaker by 7-4 to take one set lead in 48 minutes.  In the second set, Mayer started to take control of the match and thrilled the whole crowd by breaking Federer.  This was the only break which was necessary to level the match by 6-3 in 37 minutes.

Federer Hitting Defensive Backhand

This was the only set that Mayer took from Swiss master in his career.  Now Federer tried his best to break Mayer at any cost.  He broke Mayer in 3rd game, but Mayer immediately got the break back.  This was another thrilling moment for crowd.  Federer continue his try and broke him again in 5th game.  Mayer again broke back by support of home crowd.  If Mayer could not get the breaks back then match would be finished earlier.  But that did not happened.  After that Federer played best games of the match to level at 5-5 and again broke Mayer in the very next game, which proved to be decisive.  And time Federer served the match out by playing beautiful service game to love.

Fognini Against Tommy Haas

In another match Fobio Fognini of Italy beat second seed Tve and won 71% of these points.  He also saved 5 of 6 break points that he faced.  He broke Tommy Haas four times which was prove to be decisive statistics.  Haas could not get advantage of opportunities, which Fognini did.  This cost him lose this match.  He could only win 44% points on his first serve.  So overall Tommy Haas could not convert most important points of the match, and tennis is game of opportunities conversionommy Haas in straight sets by 6-2 6-4 in 1 hour 22 minutes.  Fognini showed great defence on his second ser.  This thing cause him an unexpected defeat.

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.  

Federer And Tommy Haas Survived At Hamburg Openers

Former world no 1 and currently world no 5 Roger Federer and German hope Tommy Haas survived at Hamburg second rounds.  They moved into third rounds but they had to concede one set each.  Federer beat home favourite and big serving Daniel Brands by 3-6 6-3 and 6-2.  On the other hand Tommy Haas beat Kavcic of Slovakia by 6-1 4-6 and 6-4.  Both of these matches were interesting to watch, because in both of matches there will a lot of twists and turns especially in Haas match.

Roger Federer was playing for the first time after shocking second round exit at Wimbledon.  He needed victory to boost himself up.  But his opponent was none other than Daniel Brands, the man who teased Nadal a lot at French open and took a set against him.  And it was expected that he will give Swiss master the same challenge and he did that.  In the opening set Federer served a good one in first three service games and continued to tease Brands on his serve.  He took a couple of games to deuce on Brands serve but Brands always came back with huge serve.  At 3-3 Federer was 15-40 up on Brands serve but this time Brands again saved these two break points by cross court forehand winner and a huge serve, which Federer only managed to touch.  And he hold that serve also to get 4-3 lead.  In the very next game Federer was looking bit upset due to missing opportunities in last game.  His first serve did not find its mark and soon he was 0-40 down and was broken.  Brands serve for the set in style by firing a couple of aces and sealed the set at 6-3.  This was the time when there was roaring of crowd all around.

Now fans were looking Federer to come back and he did that.  He increased his first serve %age and won all 17 points on his first serve and gave no chance to brands on his serve.  He needed only one break to serve the set to level the match at 6-3.  In the deciding set there was Federer all around.  He broke Brands twice in the deciding set to seal the match at 6-2.  This was much needed victory with his larger frame racket.  In the whole match Federer fired 9 aces and won 83% of points on his first serve.  In the third round he will face J Hajek of Czech Republic.  And this will be their first meeting.

In another match earlier, Tommy Haas beat Kavcic despite a come back form him.  In the opening set Tommy Haas served well and show beautiful return game and took the set quickly by 6-1.  In the second set Kavcic made a come back and hold his serve firmly.  He broke Haas once to take the set 6-4 to level the match.  In the deciding set Haas again got early break to get 4-1 lead.  In the very next game Haas was on the brink of double break, but Kavcic hold his nerves to hold serve to reduce the Haas lead at 4-2.  Surprisingly in the next game Kavcic got the break back and hold his serve to level the set at 4-4.  Under pressure Haas hold his serve to get 5-4 important lead.  Now Kavcic was serving to stay in the match, but this time he could not hold his nerves and he lost his serve and hence the match despite huge come back.