Roger Federer regroups between serves in Thursday's five-setter in the second round of the U.S. Open. Roger Federer, deadpan: “I feel quite warmed up by now.” No one imagined it would be this hard, this nail-biting, for the Fed Express at the U.S. Open. Federer held to love and then broke Youzhny in a second chance at match point: 6-1, 6-7, 4-6, 6-4, 6-2. How much 36-year-old Federer — grappling with his own back issue and surviving back-to-back five-setters — has left in the tank remains to be seen. Until Federer took command of the final set Thursday, it had been quite a tense thing.

Source: thestar September 01, 2017 01:41 UTC