Federer in Impressive Form

When Federer strode onto Centre Court today to resume his match with Richard Gasquet nobody could guess how he felt about a rain delay and about a young Frenchman who took him to a close 3 set match in Halle weeks ago. Apparently Federer had only one thing on his mind, that was to utterly dismantle Gasquet in a performance that seemed as some dub it "scary". Today Federer hit 35 winners to only 13 errors, he struck 5 aces to 1 double fault, and he converted 5 out of 7 break point opportunities. Federer resumed the match at 6-3, 1-2 and proceeded to take 5 games in a row to seal the second set and put himself up 2 sets to none. After basically running through the second set Federer closed Gasquet out in impressive fashion with a final score of 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 to book himself a spot in the second round against British hope Tim Henman. Henman can only hope that he doesn't see what Federer has done to Gasquet because after the way Roger dismissed the 20 year old Henman simply has no chance of winning. I think it is quite unfortunate as well that Henman had to play the defending champion in only the second round, personally I enjoy watching one of the few serve and volleyers left in the game as we know it.

To put it simply, I think an article from the wimbledon website said it best:

To judge by Federer's tuts of irritation on the rare occasions that he committed the sin of an error, you might have thought he was having a bad match. If this was a bad match, then everyone in Federer's half of the draw should vacate the SW19 premises immediately for their own safety.

One more note is that Federer has successfully taken Bjorn Borg's record of consecutive grass court wins and now sits at 42 in a row. Federer has said himself that this mark is great, he owns another part of tennis history now, but the next match and the tournament are of more importance to him at the moment. More to come as matches are completed.

P.S. - Credit to the official wimbledon website for that picture, check out his sick blazer eh?