Somehow I felt it all along. Gulbis has the kind of game to intimidate anyone (and himself!) and Federer hadn’t looked in top form in the beginning matches. It was ripe for the “upset”. And by now we all now it happened in a gruelling five-setter with the scoreline:Â 6-7 (5), 7-6 (3), 6-2, 4-6, 6-3. The key point in the match was Federer serving at 5-3 up in the second and he missed an overhead and after that simply lost his head and the set in the tie-break. Federer said about the match: “A lot of regrets…I just couldn’t kind …
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