原文:McCarton AckermanSunday August 31 [網球] 2014 US Open Federer四盤進級16強

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趣味新聞網記者特別報導 : 原文:McCarton AckermanSunday, August 31, 2014 No. 2 seed Roger Federer of Switzerland overcame a slow .....

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McCarton Ackerman
Sunday, August 31, 2014

No. 2 seed Roger Federer of Switzerland overcame a slow start in his third-round match in Arthur Ashe Stadium against Marcel Granollers of Spain, hammering down 47 winners in the last three sets and winning 18 of the last 20 games to prevail to prevail, 4-6, 6-1, 6-1, 6-1.

Granollers hadn’t taken a set off Federer in their two previous matches but was determined to break that streak. He dropped just one point in the first three games of the match, stepped well inside the court to attack Federer’s second serve and thumped a return winner to break him in his opening service game. But with the No. 2 seed serving down 2-5, rain and lightning took the players off the court for two hours.

When play resumed, Federer immediately grabbed the break of serve back and it appeared that the ship had been righted. But with Federer serving at 4-5, Granollers produced his best tennis, hitting a lob winner to earn set point and lacing a backhand passing shot up the line to grab the opening set.

When Granollers earned a break-point opportunity in Federer’s opening service game of the second set, the fans inside Arthur Ashe Stadium began to murmur at the makings of a potential upset. But Federer saved it with an ace and as day turned into night, the No. 2 seed began to find himself in familiar form. A huge forehand gave him an early break of serve against the Spaniard and then he broke once again with an outrageous forehand passing shot on the run to lead 4-1. Two games later, the Swiss maestro wrapped up the opening set when Granollers sent a forehand long.

The third set picked up where the second set left off, as a backhand into the net from Granollers gave Federer an early break of serve. The Spaniard managed to hold serve down 0-3 and stop the streak of consecutive games lost at nine, but it did little to stop the Federer onslaught. Charging the net in an effort to shorten the rallies, Federer took control with another break of serve to go up, 5-1, and he easily closed out his next service game to wrap up the set.

Federer continued his one-way traffic in the final set, breaking Granollers once again in his opening service game. He hit a forehand volley winner on his third match point to wrap up the match after just under two hours of play.

With this win, Federer has reached the second week of the US Open for the 14th consecutive year. He next plays No. 17 seed Roberto Bautista Agut of Spain or Adrian Mannarino of France. The No. 2 seed has never played Bautista Agut before, but he has dominated all four of his previous matches against Mannarino, including a straight-sets shellacking at last year’s US Open in which he dropped just five games.

Looming ahead for the five-time US Open champion is a potential quarterfinal match against No. 7 seed Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria. Federer won their only meeting last fall in his birth city of Basel, but Dimitrov has been in red-hot form this tournament and could prove to be a major test.

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現年33歲的Federer在網壇真的算是老將瞭，不過我想他應該至少還會打到下一次奧運
麵對Granollers雖然被打下瞭一盤，不過最終還是很犀利的已連續三個6-1晉級
有時候看網球覺得有意思的就是這點，選手之間的狀態變化可以馬上改變整個局勢
也許在這次比賽Fed在第一盤並沒有準備好，但是進入第二盤後很就抓住節奏

今年的Fed跟去年比起狀態提升瞭不少，
一方麵現在每場比賽都有他兒時的偶像兼現在的教練Edberg在場邊加持
一方麵換球拍之後失誤確實也較少瞭，
之前有一斷時間因為年齡增長體能下降專注力跟著下滑，
總是莫名其妙爆一堆UE(Unforced Error)，還一度被掛上UE王的稱號，
反手拍的弱點也終於比較能夠剋服瞭

Fed今年這邊的簽錶相對於Djokovic而言比較沒那麼睏難，
Nadal退賽在加上比較強悍的那幾位像是Murray還是Tsonga通通都排到Djoko那邊瞭
還有常常在硬地賽是把Djoko打到很辛苦的Wawrinka也在那邊...
Djokovic那半邊可以算是死亡之組吧，當然Fed這邊還然還是不能排除任何可能
因為他接下去要麵對的可能有近況頗佳的Dimitrov，還有小火車Berdych