Federer Chokes

If you're a tennis nut like me, you probably know by now that this douche bag shanked his way out of Indian Wells.



Fedshanker had 3 match points: 2 in the second set and 1 in the third set tiebreaker. To be sure they were all on Bag's serve. He could not convert his chances. In contrast, the tennis gods gifted Bags with one match point which he converted.



Bag's record against Fed is now 1-6.

The match statistics tell part of the story.

	RF	MB
Aces	8	3
DF	1	2
1st Serve %	60	59
1st Serve % Pts Won	54/63 (86%)	48/65 (65%)
2nd Serve % Pts Won	21/42 (50%)	30/46 (65%)
Break Points Won	2/8 (25%)	2/4 (50%)
Total Service Points Won	75/105 (71%)	78/111 (70%)
Total Return Points Won	33/111 (30%)	30/105 (29%)
Total Points Won	108/216 (50%)	108/216 (52%)

At 50-50 in points won, a match will be a crapshoot. But with three match points, Fed had the match on his racquet but he just couldn't close it out. After the match, both players had contrary analyses.

Roger Federer: "I just couldn't find the way to win. I was maybe one shot away, maybe wrong choices at the wrong time, maybe playing too passively."

Marcos Baghdatis: "Roger was a bit too aggressive. He was missing a lot of balls. I was more calm than him."

For the interviews, see here and here.

Hard to say what was going on mentally for Fed, as playing aggressively is his game. For sure he was serving well, but returning mediocrely.

Kudos to Bags for hanging in there for the win!