Although Roger Federer would have no difficulty facing Tennys Sandgren’s "dark horse" in the semi-finals, the Swiss tennis player experienced a very fierce battle with all five sets. repeatedly faced with failure. However, after 3 hours 38 minutes, Federer won 3-2 (6-3, 2-6, 2-6, 7-6, 6-3) to win the first ticket to the men’s singles semi-finals. 

In addition to the difficulties of Sandgren, the long-term match in the quarterfinals was also caused by Federer’s poor performance. The Swiss player who scored the first serve in 71% (80/112), the second serve reached 53% (31/59).

The loss of many points made Federer face up to 14 break-points, he successfully saved the game 10 times, to lose 4 games. The number of winners of Federer is not high, reaching only 44 winners, far behind the 77 winners of Sandgren, while he also defeated more than the opponent himself (56 - 53). 

The reason that the statistics of Federer is not equal to Sandgren, because the Swiss player is erratic, unable to maintain the regularity as the opponent, Federer is especially in the two sets of failures. 

Tennys Sandgren

Both Federer and Sandgren entered the quarterfinals with a hefty, break-point continual appearance in the first games. However, only Federer managed to protect the serve, with the only break in game 6, FedEx won 6-3.

Winning Set first, Federer started unfavorably in Set two, he lost the first game to serve. Maintaining stability, Sandgren won another break in game 8 to win quickly 6-2. Set 3’s scenario is similar to Set 2, though Federer’s resistance is stronger than before, but he still takes a break in games 2 and 8 for Sandgren to win 6-2.

Opposite to the opponent 2-1, Federer leaned back in defeat, he was still not really jubilant. FedEx caught his fans by the heart when leaving Sandgren three times facing the match-point in game 10 in Set 4.

Unable to determine victory or loss after 12 games, Set 4 appeared tie-break. Sandgren started off very smoothly, he went ahead 6-3 after getting a mini-break. The chance of winning is wide open, unfortunately the American tennis player cannot take advantage. After losing all 3 match-points, Sandgren left Federer to win a mini break to win 10-8 to push the match into Set 5.

The hard battle took a lot of strength from Federer

Federer’s well-experienced playing experience helped him to play stably in Set’s decision, while Sandgren did not have such bravery. Having broken game 6, Sandgren watched Federer win 6-3 in the deciding set and win tickets to the semi-finals. 

Federer’s opponent will be Novak Djokovic, a Serbian tennis player who won 3-0 (6-4, 6-3, 7-6) against Milos Raonic in the second quarter-final. Djokovic continued to flourish even though he did not win as quickly as the previous rounds, but the Serbian tennis player still plays well when successfully defending 100% of the games that serve the ball. 

Djokovic is in a sublime form

Djokovic will be a huge challenge for Federer in the next round, the Serbian tennis player is taking every advantage. Better form, better fitness and playing time at the Australian Open 2020 are also much less than FedEx. Swiss player played up to 14 sets in the last three matches (2 matches played 5 sets).

The first women’s singles semi-final has also been identified. No. 1 seed Ashleigh Barty won Petra Kvitova 7-6, 6-2, she will play against young tennis player Sofia Kenin. In the quarterfinals, the 21-year-old American won the Ons Jabeur 2-0 (6-4, 6-4).