Journal Pioneer

Federer wastes match point, loses to Anderson at Wimbledon

- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Roger Federer was a point away from a rather tidy, straight-set victory in the Wimbledon quarterfin­als. One lousy point. And then, slowly, over the next twoplus hours, all the way until the fifth set reached its 24th game, as the temperatur­e dropped and the spectators’ cries of “Let’s go, Roger!” echoed through the shadows, everything came apart for the eight-time champion against an opponent who’d never beaten him before nor made it this far at the All England Club. In a stunning turnaround in an unfamiliar setting - No. 1 Court instead of Centre Court - the top-seeded Federer blew a third-set match point and, eventually, all of his big lead in a 2-6, 6-7 (5), 7-5, 6-4, 13-11 loss to No. 8 Kevin Anderson on Wednesday in a 4-hour, 14-minute tussle. “It was just one of those days where you hope to get by somehow,” Federer said. “I almost could have. “I should have.”

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