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Defending champion Roger Federer retired Wednesday in the quarterfinals of the Wimbledon Grand Slam tennis tournament against South African Kevin Anderson. The eighth-ranked lawn champion had found a match ball in the third set, but he lost the game. Anderson finally won after 4:13 hours 2: 6, 6: 7 (5), 7: 5, 6: 4,13: 11.
21:27, 11 July 2018
Federer missed his great chance to win at 5: 4 and served Anderson in the third round when he could not use the match ball. Anderson, who was number 8, benefited from a setback by his spoiled opponent in a difficult pbad ball attempt. The finalist of the US Open the previous year had never won against the current world rankings.
Until the loss of the third set, Federer had won at Wimbledon since the semi-final lost against Milos Raonic two years ago. He had a brilliant start on the unusual for him Court 1, on which he played for the first time since 2015, had pushed Anderson into the first set and won the first set in just 26 minutes. Subsequently, however, Anderson rose steadily, while Federer, especially with the forehand committed more errors than usual.
At 0: 2 in the second set, the favorite had to surrender once more. More recently, this happened to him in the quarter-finals of 2017 against the Czech Tomas Berdych. Federer countered but with a break at 2: 3 and went on a solid decisive game with 2-0 sets in the lead. However, he was not able to do more violations against the strong badbadin Anderson (28 aces).
He was rewarded with a return match in the other sets. In the fifth epic movement, Federer was a little closer to the decision. He came in 4: 3 for a long breakball, but Anderson defended with a service winner. Many times he missed two points in the episode of victory.
After getting seven shots against losing games, it's Anderson, who made the crucial break at 12:11. Federer made his only double mistake in the game to be condemned. Anderson took advantage of the resulting breakball. A game later, he used his first point of match with a point of service. In the semifinal, the 32-year-old will face American John Isner (9) and Canadian Milos Raonic (13).
Federer lost to Wimbledon for the second time only after a 2-0 lead – after 2011 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, also in the quarterfinals. In a Grand Slam tournament, it happened a little later in the semifinals of the US Open against Novak Djokovic. For the record winners of the Grand Slam tournaments, he had gone on to the ninth unique Wimbledon title, which he had put to the best of the American Martina Navratilova.
In his badysis, Federer did not necessarily give a reason for Defeat. "There were a lot of small points, when I did not use the match ball or when I was broken at 5: 5, I'm not sure, I think you can not get it. attach at one point, of course, the match ball. " Fatigue did not matter. "I felt good."
There is nothing worse for a tennis player than having to explain a defeat. The day the form was not bad for him, but average. "Most days are average, good enough to have a chance to win, I did not feel as good at the start, I started well, but from the second set, I did not succeed Anderson played very well, but I would have liked to be able to push him even further. "
The 36-year-old South African has certified a super performance." Even mentally after the gap, I think his success at the US Open (final score of 2017) has certainly helped. "Anderson indirectly confirmed:" At 0-2 in sets, all that I I said it was that I had to fight and I think I did a good job, I was in a flow, beating Federer at Wimbledon, I will not forget not. "
Federer set his own record after all, namely the sets won by 34 at Wimbledon in a row, he had already managed between the third round in 2005 and the final in 2006. Federer Björn Borg had been the holder of the record before Federer with 24 indoor victories in 1976 and 1977.
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