French Open 2009 - Results, Discussion

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Del Potro with three break points at 2-2.

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Breaks him, 3-2 with DP to serve.

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Fed looks off the boil big time and the power of Del Potro's backhand is troubling him, not to mention his serve. This set looks gone; he's going to need a bit of a recalibration.

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Del Potro takes the first set 6-3 (his first set ever over Fed). Federer looked off-balance and has struggled to nullify DP's serves thus far.

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Hm.....I don't like the look of this. Fed needs to make an adjustment and fast. 1-1 on serve in the second but Del Potro is well in control of the flow of the match.

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2-2 in the second...

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Del Potro just keeps delivering with his first serve. 4-4 on serve in the second.

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6-5 in the second, Federer serving to stay in the set.

And he levels it 6 all. Enter the tiebreak.

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Fed is playing a ripper tiebreak so far, 5-1 up with one more serve in hand.

And make that 6-1. So five set points now.

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He takes the second set, yells and the crowd goes up as one. So we are one set all, 3-6, 7-6.

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Del Potro breaks early in the third, 1-0.

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2-1. Good luck breaking DP, the bloke is serving out of his backside atm.

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Del Potro up 5-2 in the third. Aside from that tiebreak he has completely dictated proceedings.

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Takes the third set 6-2 and leads 2 sets to 1. And that is probably it for me tonight.

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Federer finally breaks DP's serve, we are 3-1 in the fourth.

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And consolidates, 4-1.

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Breaks him again and proceeds to serve it out for 6-1. Del Potro started to lumber in that set which isn't a good sign plus his first serve dropped off significantly, but you sense he will have a serious crack in the fifth regardless. I'm still worried about this one.

And yeah I'm staying up because this is too epic to miss.

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Fed breaks Del Potro in the opening game of the fifth set and consolidates for 2-0.

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3-1...

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Del Potro breaks back, 3-3!!