At dawn this morning, the quarterfinal match of the Qatar Open tennis ended with extremely unexpected results when the player was eliminated, Roger Federer after losing 1-2 against Nikoloz Basilashvili.
Although Federer has an advantage when winning set 1 with a score of 6-3, but in a day when his physical strength has affected his performance too much, making the “speed train” only become auxiliary character for the spectacular backward of the player Georgia.
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In the final set, FedEx had the opportunity to end the match when leading 5-4. However, he lost the opportunity and gave birth to the opponent to overcome the 7-5 victory.
It can be seen that the match took place last night reflected what Federer was facing because it was the second match he returned after 13 months of injury treatment.
The feeling of playing as well as the physical strength that the “express train” has not been regained after a long time he has to “guard the racket” since Australian Open last year.
Moreover, the first match against Daniel Evans also worn the physical strength of the Swiss legend, making his serve right away not as expected.
However, after the match last night, Roger Federer was still very optimistic about the long journey ahead:
“I am satisfied with what I show today and yesterday. I am very happy that I can play two matches in a row in 3 sets with world -class players.
This is very important for my return. As I said before, I haven't found 100% of the inherent form. I still need to improve a lot. Today's match is very different from the match yesterday with Dan (Evans). They are two players with different ways of fighting, so I have difficulty in adapting. “
After the quarterfinal match ended for a few hours, on his personal Twitter page, he immediately showed the announcement of the world's No. 1 former tennis player who would not join Dubai Open next week to have more time to practice and recover.
“It's fun to be able to play back at ATP Tour, I appreciate every minute of playing at Doha.
Thank you most respectfully to my companions, they helped me a lot to be here. I decided the best thing for myself to return to practice. Therefore, I will not attend the tournament in Dubai next week. ”
According to the sharing of “Express train”, the audience must wait until April to see his return in the tournaments of this season.
