No.
4 Roger Federer battled his way into the semifinals of the Miami Open on
Thursday, he saved two match points in the deciding tie-break before completing
his 6-2, 3-6, 7-6 in a quarterfinal match at the Tennis Center at Crandon Park
in Key Biscayne, Florida.
It
marked Federer's second difficult match in a row, as he needed two tiebreaks
and nearly two hours to beat Roberto Bautista Agut in the fourth round, and
followed that up with a near-two-hour effort against Berdych as well.
A
capacity crowd at the Crandon Park stadium was chanting “Let’s go Roger” by
this stage, making no bones of their partisan support. And their vociferousness
may have further scrambled Berdych’s anxious mind. Facing match point himself
at 7-6 in the tie-break, he responded with one of the biggest double-faults you
will ever see.
“You
guys were making us nervous,” Federer joked to the crowd during the post-match
interview with commentator Brad Gilbert. “If we threw in a few double-faults at
the end there, it was because of you guys, not because we can’t play tennis.”
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