15/30/40 GAME SET MATCH...PALONG PINOY

For four years Tomas Berdych has been tagged ‘the man who beat Roger Federer at the Olympics’. That tag ought now to end after Federer gained some revenge for his Athens defeat with a 64 76(4) victory over the 22-year-old Czech.
The ever-lucid Federer made the point afterwards that the tag may have weighed more heavily on Berdych than it did on him. “I got my revenge the next time we played, which was in Hamburg and I beat him 2 and 1,” he said. But it certainly seemed as if he was more than usually up for this match.

It was a high-quality contest, which was decided in the break of the Berdych serve Federer achieved in the seventh game of the match, and the superb tiebreak the Swiss played to seal victory. Berdych might have served a little better in the second set, but he played well enough to beat most players – he just happened to be up against arguably the greatest player in tennis’s history.

He next faces J.Blake who still up to this moment need to get a win over R.Federer.