Federer, 36 years old, beat Marin Cilic, a 29-year-old from Croatia, in a five-set match, 6-2, 6-7(5), 6-3, 3-6, 6-1, to win the Australian Open in just over three hours. “I think that it was just little bit difficult to adjust, especially the beginning of the match,” Cilic said. Marin Cilic Cilic looked uneasy in the first set, but settled down and pushed the match to five sets. He led Cilic 3-1 in the fourth set when Cilic did the improbable: He won five straight games to win the set. “It ran away from me.”When Federer won last year’s Australian Open, everyone was surprised.

Source: Wall Street Journal January 28, 2018 16:18 UTC