This is a humongous surprise. Phau serving for the first set.

Phau chokes bigtime. 5-5. :angry:

Not really. Federer is often a notorious slow starter at slams.. Wimbledon 2006 excepted.

And oh look, Federer breaks back to make it 5-5 in the first set.

3 breaks of serve apiece in the first 10 games! :yikes:

Nooooo.
Now this moronic tv switched to the federer match.

And a quick service game from the Fedster makes it 6-5 to him.. :ok:

Would anticipate Fed putting some serious pressure on the Phau serve, esp if he continues to fail to get his first serves in..

And sure enough, Fed breaks Phau to love to take the first set 7-5 :D

Aargh...
I off to get some dinner, with lots of booze to drown my sorrow..
Good night Wise and Petalp...

And predictably Federer storms to take the first set 7-5. Expect Phau to win a maximum of 4 more games now.

Meanwhile, Gasquet and Ancic both went through very impressively, winning in straight sets against Volandri and Soeda respectively.

'night chet..

I need to get some sleep too :( .. 'night wise, enjoy the tennis..

Ancic and Gasquet looking good, which is encouraging :ok:

Night chaps, I'm only still up cos snowed under with work, tennis is a welcome distraction...

Roddick gets the break he was after in the fourth set against Tsonga, that looks to be all over now. (Sorry about the random mish-mash of commentaries in the wrong threads etc...)

Phau was obviously feeling hungry after his choking fit in the first set, and greedily grabbed a bagel from the Federer canteen in the second. It's now 3-3 in the third set, Federer having relinquished a break, but will still end the match in this set.

I see Fed has a match point here at 5-4 (Phau serving).

Phau saves it with a big serve, though.

BTW, Federer did win, of course.

7-5 6-0 6-4

Fed wins as expected :)

Incredible - a Wise prediction that actually turns out to be true! Isn't that one of the harbingers of the apocalypse?