Biggest upsets of 2012 – Roger Federer beats Novak Djokovic – Wimbledon 2012
Right-hander Serbian professional, Novak Djokovic, received a four set shocker at the hands of the Swiss Maestro, Roger Federer at the green grass courts of the Wimbledon Championships held at the All England Lawn Tennis Club.
The Swiss veteran terminated the match, consolidating his victory 6-3, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 on 6th July 2012.
In a post match interview Federer said, “The surface made for a lot of first-strike tennis, making it more of an explosive than physical test. It enabled me to be aggressive. Everybody knows what a hero Pete Sampras is to me so I’m very proud to have a shot
at equalling him. I played a great match. It has been a tough tournament for me. I was able to step it up and get a bit lucky maybe. I thought Novak played well too - the first two sets went really quickly and the third was key to the match. Obviously, I'm
ecstatic, I'm so happy.”
The 31-year-old Swiss professional seemed extremely contended with his success over the world number one. As luck favoured Federer that day, he won the toss and got a chance to serve first in the match. He thundered across strong forehand volley wild but
even with of his fallbacks, he remained calm and collected. The score line in the opener levelled down to 2-all but swiftly Federer geared up and started to take the lead and concluded the initial set with a 6-3 lead.
Despite a sloppy start, Djokovic made a smooth entry and this time around, he was successful to avenge his initial loss. The Swiss professional clinched his winning momentum and kept a track of every move made by his challenger. He gradually shifted the
games momentum towards his side; he started to fire across more hits than his Serbian junior did.
The Serbian number one’s quick exit from the Wimbledon surely proved to disastrous for his world rankings. The Swiss professional nudged forward to secure the world number one spot for the second time after he defeated the British number one, Andy Murray,
in the final round.
The former world number one was the top seeded challenger at the London 2012 Olympics but faced a loss at the hands of Murray in the final and attained a silver medal. Djokovic’s pace declined down as he was unable to defend his bronze medal from the Beijing
2008 Olympics.
He reclaimed back his world number one spot after contesting for the second round of the BNP Paribas Masters in Paris. He avenged his prior failure against the Swiss professional in the final round of the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals in London. Eventually,
the Serb penned down his outstanding straight sets win, 7-6(6), 7-5 in the final.
Evaluating the match stats, the Swiss senior secured 64 percent initials serve accuracy, bombarding 12 aces and did not even once double faulted. He was for fortunate enough to snatch away 49 of 65 first and 26 of 36 serve points. In comparison to that,
Djokovic attained 63 percent first serve precision with nine aces and 21 unforced errors.
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