Wimbledon first round - top players results

Posted by bumeral

June 25, 2008

Roger Federer wants to add its sixth consecutive title at Wimbledon. The Swiss has been impressive in his debut before Dominik Hrbaty, who has been imposed with great ease in three sleeves. The ‘Swiss Express’ is already in second round, like Novak Djokovic, who spent some trouble to break into German Michael Berrer.

Roger Federer, first-seeded pentacampeón and Wimbledon, won his debut in the veteran Slovakian Dominik Hrbaty, a marker of overall 6-3, 6-2 and 6-2 after one hour and twenty minutes of play. The Swiss, which was very comfortable at all times maintained a regularity of 75% success rate with the service and did not give any option to his rival in no time. Federer, who has been running for sixty consecutive matches won on grass, not too tired in a day quite sunny in London and is now in second round, where they measured the Swedish Robin Soderling, which was imposed on American Kevin Kim in four sleeves . Federer and Soderling have been measured six times, with two victories for the world number one.

Novak Djokovic, third-seeded and semifinalist last year in London, won the German Michael Berrer for a marker of overall 7-5, 2-6, 6-3 and 6-0 after two hours and seven minutes of play. ‘Nolan’ what went wrong in bars initial meeting, where they have good shock winners with errors not forced. Despite carried the first sleeve, in Belgrade espabilaría not until the second set, which is aimed Berrer. From there, the clash took a turn of 180 degrees and Djokovic Djokovic was that we have come to expect: sound, aggressive and winning. It was noted the following two sealed their sleeves and go to the next stage, where he expects the Russian Marat Safin, which has played only once, at the Australia Open in 2005, party ended with a comfortable victory for Moscow. There were other times …

For its part,-seeded Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis as the Chilean Fernando Gonzalez, Italian Andreas Seppi, Czech Tomas Berdych, or Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka kangaroo Lleyton Hewitt, overcome their first round of commitments to crush the Belgian Steve Darcis , To American Robby Ginepri, the German Tobias Kamke, Russian Evgeny Korolev, Brazilian Marcos Daniel and the tulip Robin Haase (in five sets) respectively. The most attractive game of the day it disputed the Swedish Thomas Johansson and American Vincent Spadea, the second was winning two sets to zero and the first turned around the situation to seal its ticket to the second round.

The surprises of the day came with eliminations Croatian Ivo Karlovic and Argentine David Nalbandian, at the hands of German Simon Stadler and Canadian Frank Dancevic respectively. The Croatian Gigantonas fell into four sleeves (4-6, 7-6, 6-3 and 7-5) and the Cordova in three sets (6-4, 6-2 and 6-4).

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