Federer Destroys Santoro
Everyone thought that Fabrice Santoro would give Roger Federer a hard time. If this is how Federer meets tough competition without playing a warmup event, the rest of the field will be in a tough, but very familiar situation.
Federer so completely dominated Santoro, it wasn’t even funny expect to Santoro. When Federer missed an easy overhead, Santoro ran around in circles as if he won the match. As Federer was about to win the match, Santoro pleaded for mercy, looking at the scoreboard. Federer paused, then served out the match taking the last 10 games in yet another awe-inspiring 6-1, 6-2, 6-0 romp.
So why is this such a big deal? Santoro is the oldest player in the draw and Federer is an all-time great, shouldn’t this have been expected? Sure, Federer was supposed to beat Santoro but again, this is Fabrice Santoro. Regardless of his age and the fact he’s now played in 62 Grand Slams, he can still give the best players fits and isn’t prone to upsetting the odd top 1o player every now and then. Not to mention that Federer didn’t play any warm up events, hasn’t played in a tournament since the Masters Cup and no one knew if this may be the first time he doesn’t win a Slam outside of Paris in God knows how long. Still, Federer shows that he is perfection personified and that no matter what we may think, he’s not ready to go downhill yet.