Lille, France (SportsNetwork.
Patrick Kane
Jersey .com) - Roger Federer lost and Stan Wawrinka won, as visiting
Switzerland and France are tied at 1-1 following the opening singles at the 2014
Davis Cup final. The Swiss drew first blood on Friday when Wawrinka handled
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in four sets, while the nightcap saw Gael Monfils douse the
former world No. 1 Federer in straights, 6-1, 6-4, 6-3, on some slow red clay in
Lille. The acrobatic former top-10 star Monfils played near flawless tennis in
taking advantage of the 33-year-old Federer, who failed to demonstrate his
typical on-court prowess, perhaps due to a much-publicized back injury. Already
ahead by two sets, a determined Monfils got his fourth break of the match to
grab a 3-2 lead in the third, and he would keep Federer down from there. Monfils
broke Federer once again to close out the rubber, which he did on his first
match point with an easy backhand winner. The uneventful affair was over in 1
hour, 46 minutes, as Monfils popped 10 aces and tallied five breaks, while a
stunned Federer failed to break his French counterpart on Day 1. Monfils struck
19 more winners than Federer (44-25), while the Swiss legend uncorked 11 more
unforced errors (29-18). The 19th-ranked Monfils is now 10-2 in his career Davis
Cup singles, while Federer fell to 37-8. The world No. 2 Federer is now 8-3
lifetime against Monfils, who pushed the Swiss icon mightily in their last
meeting in the quarterfinals at the U.S. Open, where Federer had to save two
match points before coming back to win in a five-set thriller. In the opener in
Lille on Friday, the world No. 4 Australian Open champion Wawrinka bludgeoned
the tennis ball in outgunning the former Aussie runner-up Tsonga on the
Frenchmans home soil, 6-1, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2. Wawrinka was spot on with a
sensational one-handed backhand and prevailed in 2 hours, 24 minutes by breaking
Tsongas serve five times. Tsonga had to settle for only one break in the
setback. The 29-year-old Wawrinka is now 3-3 lifetime against the 12th-ranked
Tsonga, including wins in their last two meetings. The Swiss slugger also topped
Tsonga on some clay in Madrid last year. Wawrinka improved to 21-13 lifetime in
his career Davis Cup singles, while Tsonga fell to 16-5. Saturdays doubles match
has a French tandem of Richard Gasquet and Julien Benneteau facing a Swiss duo
of Marco Chiudinelli and Michael Lammer, but expect Federer and Wawrinka to team
up for that one if the great Federer is fit enough to play. The Wimbledon
runner-up pulled out of last weeks championship match at the ATP World Tour
Finals in London because of his back, a problem that slowed the Swiss legend
mightily in 2013. Sundays reverse singles will pit the 17-time Grand Slam king
Federer against Tsonga and Wawrinka versus Monfils. The best-of-five tie is
being staged on an indoor clay court in front of a capacity crowd of 27,000 at
Stade Pierre Mauroy. Thats the largest-ever crowd to watch a professional tennis
match. Switzerland is captained by Severin Luthi, while France is guided by
former Aussie runner-up Arnaud Clement. The French are 10-2 all-time versus the
Swiss in Davis Cup play. The two nations last met in a 2004 quarterfinal that
was won by France. The nine-time champion French are seeking their first Davis
Cup title in 13 years, while Switzerland and the iconic Federer have never
hoisted the coveted 114-year-old chalice. The Swiss finished as runners-up in
1992.
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baggage, a cancelled flight and a new pair of contact lenses.Melbourne,
Australia (SportsNetwork.com) - Andreas Seppi knew he couldnt relax. Up two sets
against Roger Federer, the 30-year-old Italian was eying a big upset but
remained wary of the opponent on the other side of the net. Its never
comfortable playing Roger, Seppi said in an on-court interview with a TV
reporter. He should know. Seppi lost his first 10 matches against Federer before
finally finding the all-time greats number in a monster upset on one of tennis
biggest stages. Seppi handed the second-seeded former world No. 1 Federer his
earliest exit at the Australian Open in 14 years, gutting out a four-set win in
the third round on Friday that took three hours to complete and ended with one
of the unheralded Italians best shots on match point in a fourth-set tiebreak.
Following a hard serve, Seppi found himself in no mans land on Federers return
but got the ball back. It drew Federer to the net, but Seppi was able to track
the next shot down in the corner, looping a forehand over Federer and down the
line for a winner. It finished off a 6-4, 7-6 (7-5), 4-6, 7-6 (7-5) win that
ended Federers run of 11 consecutive semifinal appearances at the seasons first
Grand Slam event. To beat Roger first time, especially in a Grand Slam,
best-of-five, is a special moment for me, said Seppi. Of course, at the
beginning, I just went on the court to enjoy the match and to play my best
tennis. I was pretty calm. I have to say, from the beginning [and] also in the
important moments. Federer hadnt lost this early at the Aussie Open since he was
also ousted in the third round way back in 2001. [It was] just a bad day,
admitted Federer. I wish I could have played better, but clearly it was tough
losing the first two. [I] had chances to get back into it. I let it slip, I
mean, both times in some ways. I guess I won the wrong points out there today. I
knew how important that second set tiebreak was, so clearly that hurt, losing
that one. The end wasnt pretty. It wasnt easy to play with the shadow. But it
was the same for both of us. [It was] just a disappointing loss. The four-time
Aussie champion -- his last win came in 2010 -- Federer aced Seppi 15 times but
also committed nine double faults, including one to go down 15-30 in the 12th
game of the fourth set.
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an ace to force a tiebreak. Federer holds a mens-record 17 Grand Slam titles,
but its the three-time ATP champion Seppi who moved on to face Aussie Nick
Kyrgios. Meanwhile, third-seeded former No. 1 Rafael Nadal got past Israeli Dudi
Sela 6-1, 6-0, 7-5 and No. 6 seed Andy Murray, a three-time Aussie Open runner-
up, eased to a 6-1, 6-1, 7-5 win over Portuguese Joao Sousa and will next face
No. 10 Grigor Dimitrov, who battled Marcos Baghdatis for 3 hours, 27 minutes
before besting the 2006 Melbourne runner-up 4-6, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 win. The
14-time Grand Slam champion Nadal beat Federer in the 2009 Aussie final and is a
two-time runner-up in Melbourne, including last year when he was stunned by Stan
Wawrinka in the final. Nadal, of course, is the reigning French Open king.
Nadals fourth-round opponent will be tall South African Kevin Anderson. In other
third-round action involving seeds, No. 7 former Wimbledon runner-up Tomas
Berdych handled Serb and last weeks Sydney champion Viktor Troicki 6-4, 6-3, 6-4
and a No. 14 Anderson dismissed No. 24 Frenchman Richard Gasquet 6-4, 7-6 (7-3),
7-6 (8-6). Up next for Berdych will be dangerous Aussie Bernard Tomic. Also on
Day 5, the promising crowd favorite Kyrgios doused Tunisian Malek Jaziri 6-3,
7-6 (8-6), 6-1 and an all-Aussie affair saw Tomic knock out Sam Groth 6-4, 7-6
(10-8), 6-3. The third round will resume here on Saturday, including matches for
current world No. 1 Novak Djokovic, the fourth-seeded reigning Oz champion
Wawrinka and fifth-seeded U.S. Open runner-up Kei Nishikori. Djokovic will take
on 31st-seeded Spaniard Fernando Verdasco, while Wawrinka will encounter Finnish
veteran Jarkko Nieminen and the Japanese Nishikori will be opposed by American
two-time NCAA singles champion Steve Johnson. The reigning Wimbledon champ
Djokovic is a seven-time major titlist, including four Aussie crowns. He
captured the title at Melbourne Park three straight years from 2011-13. Also
slated for action Saturday are eighth-seeded Canadian Milos Raonic, ninth-seeded
former Roland Garros finalist David Ferrer and 19th-seeded towering American
John Isner.
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