Sunday, August 23, 2009

[tennis] Federer Wins In Cincinnati


World no 1 Roger Federer won the ATP masters event in Cincinnati defeating Novak Djokovic in straight sets. Federer came back to winning ways after losing to Tsonga in the previous week in Montreal masters. Roger won the final of the ATP 1000 event 6-1, 7-5.
The Swiss started the match with his blistering form and packed up the first set after going to 5-0 lead within few minutes. Federer converted 2 of the 9 break points ke created and the number of break points clearly indicates the dominance of the world no 1. In the second set both broke each other once before Roger taking the decisive break point at 5-5. He then managed to keep his final service to win the touranament.
Earlier Roger Federer defeated current world no 2 Andy Murray 6-2, 7-6(8) and Novak Djokovic defeated the earlier no 2 Rafael Nadal 6-1, 6-4.
This is the third time that Roger Federer came out as the winner in the Cincinnati and it is his 61st ATP tour title. This year he has won Franch Open and Wimbledon Open other than winnig the Madrid masters. Djokovic has played 24 finals in the ATP tour inckuding this match and he has won 13 of them inckuding the Australian Open in 2008.

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