Tennis Doha Results
Australian Open Federer Advances quarterfinals after beating Lleyton Hewitt
Swiss tennis player Roger Federer continued his winning streak on Monday, defeating Lleyton Hewitt and qualifying for the Australian Open quarter-finals for the seventh consecutive year. The world number one showed his best game against his old rivals and achieved a 6-2, 6-3, 6-4 Victory in less than two hours before a packed Rod Laver Arena. Hewitt, the last local player in the tournament, has not beaten Federer since 2003, and the gap between current and former world no. 1 has never seemed greater. Federer was very effective from the beginning, is clean and spectacular backhand. Hewitt, approached on the other side the net only three times in the first set and won two games. Hewitt won all the points do not serve or volley Laden, his mission was to Federer out of position on the baseline, then come and put an easy volley. His strategy, however, gave little in the way of results. At the end of the first set, Hewitt lost 6-2. In the second set Federer retained his good performance breaking Hewitt in the fourth game of the second set with a wrong foot backhand drive. With the same shot Federer won the second set 6-3 and increased its Lead to two sentences. In the third set, though, things finally got a little complicated for the Swiss player. Hewitt tied the set with a score of 4-4, but the No. 1 Whacked in the world, at last against the Australian 6-4. With the end result is Federer moved into the quarter-finals, where the Russians Nikolay Davydenko face it, the Spaniard Fernando Verdasco in an electrifying game to beat, 6-2, 7-5, 4-6, 6-7 (07.05), 6-3. Federer managed seven aces and 49 winners, he needed only one hour and 55 minutes to put away the Australian. Now that exist with Hewitt, Australia has no representative players in the final phase of its opening. After the match, Federer said that he much with his performance and his Ability to keep his concentration pleased commits no error and the focus on his game plan. "There is hardly made any unforced errors. If there was something that was them in the moments I can live with. I was really in a position to press the offensive, also serve as had I, and I moved too well, overall I am very happy, " said the Swiss, who committed 30 errors and converted 49 winners. Hewitt, on the other hand, despite his loss, was happy with the way he played. He admitted Federer Skill and recognized him as the best player in the circuit. "He played special tennis. Tonight was as good as the U.S. Open final in 2004. I just prepared the way I wanted to prepare for the Australian summer. Gave 100% every time. But I ran into the best player at the moment, I would say. "Now in the quarter-finals, Federer Davydenko is on Wednesday 27 January face. Davydenko is certainly the constant tennis player in the circuit, as it ended in 2009 with victories at the Masters 1000 in Shanghai, China and the Masters Cup in London, and opened a successful 2010 with victory in Doha. Despite losing the Australian Open final to Rafael Nadal, Federer is the favorite to win the tournament. About the Author
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