Thursday,
May 10, 2007
Italian Filippo Volandri
Knocks out Roger Federer in
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Filippo
Volandri a wildcard in the last 16,
beat the world number one, Roger Federer, in just two
sets.
Third
seed US Andy Roddick also fell on Thursday.
Federer Loses to Wildcard in
Reuters
May 10, 2007
The world number
one, who finished runner-up in
He rallied
briefly at the start of the second set, but four unforced errors in the third
gamethe last two played almost casuallyallowed Volandri
to grab another break and serve out for the match.
Federer's defeat means he has now
gone four tournaments without a title - his longest stretch without a title
since becoming world number one in February 2004.
"What I've
done here will only sink in tomorrow. This is the best court in the world. The crowd were fabulous," said Volandri.
"I played a
perfect match and pushed all the way to the end. I couldn't ask anything more
of myself."
Third seed Andy Roddick also fell on Thursday, losing 6-0 6-4 to claycourt specialist Juan Ignacio Chela.
The big-serving
American, playing his first tournament since a hamstring injury forced him to
pull out of the Miami Masters in March, could not handle the metronomic groundstrokes of the Argentine
In a later match,
defending champion and world number two Rafael Nadal
plays 15th seed Mikhail Youzhny.
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