Roger Federer had a rather complicated debut in his opening match in Basel since it took 3 sets to defeat the world no.35 Filip Krajinovic 6-2 4-6 6-4 in a 2 hours and 9 minutes contest.
When Roger was having a break point while he was already leading 6-2 3-1 everything looked immensely smooth for the Swiss before he had to engage in a proper fight.
Why I struggled against Krajinovic. FEDERER
During the post-match interview, Roger explained what happened to comment
“I didn’t serve very well today. I think I was misfiring the corners, I was not hitting the lines enough. Clearly you make your life more difficult, but still, I was up 6-2, 3-1, break points, so things could have ended very quickly today, even though I didn’t have the best serve percentage stats. But maybe that’s exactly what caught up to me eventually.”
Roger was right since he put only 47% of his 1st serves in, and he committed 6 double faults.
However, even if the match lasted more than 2 hours, Roger admitted that he was not very worried about that because on Wednesday he will have a day off.
“It was a bit more of a hard-fought victory, but they feel good too, especially knowing that I have the day off tomorrow, so it’s no problem having played three sets today,” he said.
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In the second round, Federer will face Jan-Lennard Struff. He needs to go back to his standards if he doesn’t want another struggle.
A TOUGH ONE
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