Feds loses (a set)
As if he’d actually lose a match! I know, I am still a little behind here, but I’ve been busy.For some reason, my employer doesn’t care about tennis so I can’t spend as much time here as I’d like.
“I thought I was going to get my backside kicked,” said a jet-lagged Pless, who succeeded Federer as the world’s best junior in 1999. Instead he almost put the boot into Federer’s plan to take back the title he lost a year ago to Rafael Nadal.
He departed with the consolation prize of doing what none of Federer’s seven rivals at last month’s Australian Open could manage - taking a set off the Swiss before succumbing 7-6, 3-6, 6-3.
“Losing my first set of the year doesn’t matter much to me,” Federer said. “The main thing was winning the match.
The tight contest would probably have followed a more routine course if Federer had taken break points in either of Pless’ two opening service games. His failure meant he had to wait until the fourth game of the deciding set to break the Dane’s formidable serve, courtesy of an appalling forehand error on the third of three break points.
Telegraph