A stroll in the park for the Maestro.
It took only 72 minutes for Roger to wrap up this match. Federer blasted 7 aces on 10 service games (no bad considering it’s on clay courts) to win 72 points vs. Hajek’s 54.
The only bad point on Roger’s performance once again was his bad conversion on break points as he managed to convert only 3 out of 13. This is something that he really has to improve if he wants to beat the big guys.
From Roger
“I’m just still looking for the timing and the rhythm here, but the longer I stay in the tournament, the more confident I am that I’m going to play better and better as the tournament goes on,” he said.
Some more about the new racket
“I guess it’s to a degree some more getting use to, just to see how it reacts on every single shot,
Clearly it reacts better to some shots. But it’s important not to think of it the whole time, not to talk about it all the time, but more just sort of go with it, fight for every point, have the right mindset, be optimistic about playing here now and wanting to achieve a good result and that’s what I’m doing.” said Roger
Next vs. Mayer
Roger will play the quarters against Florian Mayer that has defated Lopez 7-6 (1) 6-2. Head to head is 4-0 for Roger that has never conceded a set to the German. details
