Federer out of Olympic singles tournament
August 15, 2008
After a long rain delay Roger Federer took on James Blake in the Olympic tennis singles. Federer made too many unforced errors. This combined with good play from Blake at crucial times saw the Swiss no. 1 seed exit the tournament.
James Blake won the match 6-4, 7-6(2). The unforced error count for Federer was 56. This is way too high in two sets of tennis.
Watching from courtside it seemed that Federer was having trouble getting into his game. His shotmaking did not appear silky smooth as I have witnessed in the past.
Overall Blake was just too good. When Federer looked like making a comeback after getting into the tiebreak Blake came up with the big plays and won convincingly.
The crowd made up mostly of Chinese with a sprinkling of foreigners were cheering for the Swiss player. There was the odd cheer for Blake from US people in the crowd.
In the other quarterfinal match that followed Rafael Nadal defeated Jurgen Melzer of Austria 6-0, 6-4.
In other matches on the outside courts at the Olympic tennis green Serbia’s Novak Djokovic defeated Gael Monfils of France 4-6, 6-1, 6-4 and Chile’s Fernando Gonzalez defeated Paul-Henri Mathieu also from France 6-4, 6-4.
Check back here later for some photos from my night at the tennis.
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