Roger Federer, current number 8 of the individual classification of the ATP, will be measured today with the German Dominik Koepfer on the night shift of the runway Philippe-Chatrier, not before 9 p.m. local time (GMT-3), within the framework of the third round of Roland Garros. We review the most important of the previous one. It will be the first time they face each other. It will be televised on ESPN 2 and will air on ESPN Play.
Roger Federer
Roger Federer wants to continue taking tennis rhythm ahead of the turf tour, and his great goal Wimbledon. The Swiss has played little and nothing since the beginning of 2020, more specifically after the Australian Open of the year in question. A serious injury to his right knee kept him off the slopes and caused him to undergo two arthroscopies.
His comeback was at the ATP 250 in Doha, where he beat Briton Daniel Evans and then lost to Georgian Nikoloz Basilashvili. That defeat made him get off the ATP 500 in Dubai and return to training, as he was limited physically. Something similar happened in the ATP 250 in Geneva, in which he fell to the Spanish Pablo Andújar.
But things seem to have changed for the better at Roland Garros, where despite playing the best of 5 and on a slow and heavy surface, in which Federer has always been more “earthy”, very much in quotes, the Swiss has shown a very good level and has not fallen from the physical. Roger 6-2 6-4 6-3 defeated Kazakh Denis Istomin in the first round and 6-2 2-6 7-6 (4) 6-2 Croatian Marin Cilic in the second.
Dominik Koepfer
For his part, Dominik Koepfer also comes from playing the ATP 250 in Geneva, where he fell in 3 sets in the quarterfinals against the Norwegian, specialist in brick dust and highly current, Casper Ruud. The German has already shown that he can be a significant threat on clay, for example when he made things very difficult for Novak Djokovic at the 2020 Masters 1000 in Rome, which the Serbian would eventually win.
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