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 | Federer survived a three-hour thriller against Simon19-01-2011 |
Roger Federer came out victorious in a spectacular clash with Gilles Simon in a second round of Australian Open, which lasted 3 hours and 13 minutes. Placed under № 2 Swiss was forced to show the best of himself in petsetov match, started well for Federer. He won the first two sets 6-2 and 6-3 for about an hour, then started the drama. The Frenchman came on center court transformed the Rod Laver and took the next two sets 6-4, 6-4, showing exceptional borbenost and gave everything for each point. The decisive third set was equivalent in the beginning but Federer cause your shot in the sixth game when your opponent samples and led 4-2. At 5-2 and serving for him to Simon, Federer led by 40-0, but squandered three machbola and had to settle the dispute in its filing. The match eventually ended with the famous Swiss ace in his fifth machbol in the meeting. In his next round opponent will be Belgium's Xavier Malisse.