Baseball prediction Roger Federer returned to the court with a 3-set victory over Daniel Evans (video + photos)
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After a 14-month absence from the court, Roger Federer returned with a victory at the ATP 250 hard court tournament according buy over under picks in Doha, Qatar with a prize fund of 788 thousand dollars.
In the match of the second round, the Swiss, who is a three-time winner of the title in Doha, defeated the British Daniel Evans with 7:6 (8), 3:6, 7:5.
The meeting was very equal and lasted nearly two and a half hours.
Federer`s lack of practice in the number 2 scheme was especially evident in the second set, in which he made an early breakthrough, which he failed to return. However, the Swiss also showed the alleged 20-time Grand Slam champion. He was more focused on the most important moments of the first and third sets, saving Evans` setball in the first in the tiebreak, and in the last he allowed himself the luxury of missing a match ball in the tenth game.
Federer`s opponent in the quarterfinals will be the Georgian Nikoloz Basilashvili, who won 6:2, 6:2 over the Tunisian Malek Jaziri.
The leader in the scheme Dominic Thiem also qualified for the quarterfinals. The Austrian faced serious difficulties against the semifinalist of the Australian Open Aslan Karatsev, but still won with 6:7 (5), 6:3, 6:2.
Team lost the first set, although they led by 5:2 points in the tiebreak, but this did not affect him negatively and he showed why he ranks fourth in the world rankings. The Austrian made a breakthrough for 2:0 in the second set, which provided him with an equalization of the result, and in the third he quickly took the lead with a 5:1 game, which predetermined the match.
For a place in the semifinals, Team will play with the Spaniard Roberto Bautista-Agut, who won 6:4, 6:3 against Alexander Bublik from Kazakhstan.
The champion for 2020 Andrey Rublev also qualified for the quarterfinals, but without a game. The Russian did not appear on the court at all, as his opponent Richard Gasquet (France) gave up due to injury. The place in the quarterfinals was also found by the fourth in the scheme Denis Shapovalov from Canada and the American Tyler Fritz, who will play against each other in the next stage.
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