While waiting for more difficult tests, the first of Roger Federer on the clay courts of Roland Garros 2021 turns out to be poor in problems. The Swiss champion, in his fourth appearance of the season, beats Denis Istomin with a solid 6-2 6-4 6-3 and returned to clay court success exactly two years later.
The Uzbek player, fresh out of the qualifying sieve and running out of solutions to tie the game, survives just over ninety minutes of play. Federer, who in 2021 had only beaten Dan Evans in Doha, will see him in the second round with Marin Cilic.
The twenty-time Grand Slam champion, who plays an extraordinarily consistent game, ends with a forehand from the center and makes no further changes to the draft until the finish line. Rather. At the foot of the finish line, he breaks his opponent’s serve for the fifth time.
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