After almost fourteen months of waiting, Roger Federer returned to the field and officially returned to the ATP Tour. The Swiss champion returned to the ATP tournament in Doha where he showed good condition during the two matches played.
In the first match, Roger beat in hard-contested three sets after more than two and a half hours his opponent and friend, Briton Daniel Evans. The two had trained together in recent weeks and for the Swiss the return to the pitch was far from easy.
After winning the first set, Federer suffered from the reaction of the opponent which put the Swiss champion in difficulty, but in the third set Roger used his technical skills and experience to gain the upper hand over Evans.
He did not meet the same fate in the second game where Federer was eliminated in the quarter-finals against Georgian Basilashvili. After winning the first set without too much difficulty, the 20-time Grand Slam champion collapsed in the second set and only recovered in the third where he had a match point at 5-4 and a serve. for the opponent, then wasted this opportunity.
, thus losing the chance to advance in the tournament. In the evening, Federer then formalized the package during the Atp 500 tournament in Dubai. When we talk about Roger Federer we consider him to be a turf lover and consider Wimbledon almost his home, but over the course of his career Roger has also won several tournaments on hard and has also won numerous Open d ‘ Australia and US Open.
like the end-of-year Atp finals. In the era of the Open, Roger Federer is the tennis player with the most victories on the ATP circuit on hard courts, clearly ahead of one of his biggest rivals, Serbian Novak Djokovic.
Behind Agassi and Connors is Rafael Nadal, known mainly for his records on clay.
Roger Federer on his loss to Nikoloz Basilashvili
“Like I said, I’m not 100% yet,” Roger Federer said.
“I can feel it, I can see it. I’m still building. It’s a stepping stone. I’m actually happy with how I felt on the court overall.” Federer later said he anticipated the possibility of getting tired as the game progressed.
The Swiss even claimed that his shoulders were slaughtered in the later stages of the competition and that he did not have the courage to go the extra mile.
“I honestly expected to feel this,” said Roger Federer. “The whole shoulder, I feel the muscle pain around it. I didn’t expect that, I had served all the time, but I think it comes with the pressure. In games you give those 5s. % extra. ”
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