Federer, Wawrinka bury hatchet

ROGER Federer and Stan Wawrinka took to Twitter yesterday in a bid to bury any lingering resentments from their bad-tempered London match ahead of the Davis Cup final against France this week. “It’s great being with the boys again,” tweeted Federer, above a Swiss team picture including himself and Wawrinka with arms around each other. In the shot, world number four Wawrinka makes playful ‘bunny ears’ behind his teammate’s head. That frivolity seemed light years from the fallout that hit the two countrymen as Federer defeated Wawrinka in three gruelling sets 4-6, 7-5, 7-6 (8/6) on Saturday evening in the ATP World Tour Finals semi-finals. Federer had saved three match points in the 10th game of the deciding set in that match and it was poised at 5-5 and 40-40 in game 11 when Warwinka gestured to Federer’s box asking that they not make noise in between serves. Federer’s wife Mirka was sitting in the players section and he was reportedly upset that Wawrinka had blamed her. Tne two were then seen involved in a long and tense discussion in the locker-room after the match and on Monday each went their own way en route from London to Lille in northern France for the Davis Cup showdown.