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No. 1 seeded Roger Federer of these Wimbledon championships played a 32-game winning streak in the quarter-finals and played 82 times in a row at the All England Club
. two sets to love against Kevin Anderson, a great player but clearly overmotorized. Federer even held a match point at 5-4 in the third
Everything worked perfectly for Federer – until that was not the case.
From that moment, he found himself in an aerial combat. More than two hours after that match, Federer and Anderson fought and fought. In the penultimate match, Federer hit a shot that went near the line, the crowd gasped, but Anderson was able to recover the ball in play. Federer made his way into the net but the Crowd made more noise than Federer flushed the volley, leading to the breakup and finally the match.
Stunned and defeated, the loss finished Federer's run to a ninth Wimbledon title record. The final score: 6-2, 7-6 (5), 5-7, 4-6, 13-11 in 4 hours, 14 minutes. It was only the seventh match of the OT (meaning over 7-6 in the fifth) in Federer's career, and his first since beating Andy Roddick 16-14 in the 2009 Wimbledon final.
How mad was this angry? Here's a bit more perspective:
For the fifth time only (and the third in 269 Grand Slam games), Federer wasted two sets to love the lead
losing after holding a match point in a major?
Federer became the first-seeded male to lose a Grand Slam match with a two-set header since Lleyton Hewitt fell to Tommy Robredo at the Open of France 2003. (For what it's worth, Robredo is the player responsible for another of the reversals of Federer, when he beat the Swiss in the fourth round of the US Open 2013.
[1965] 9002] Quite crazy, the last set of the match lasted 90 minutes, as long as each of the first two matches of Federer.
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