It’s Day Nine in the Miami Open - the WTA semi finals and last of the ATP quarter finals.
Miami Open presented by Itaú - an ATP Masters 1000 category tournament, on Hard Layklold, in Miami, Florida, USA, 20-31 March 2019.
Defending champion:
John Isner (14) who defeated Alexander Zverev (4) 6-7(4) 6-4 6-
ATP quarter finals
- Kevin Anderson (6) v Roger Federer (4)
With one of the biggest serves in the business, Anderson potentially presented Federer with difficulty in achieving breaks of the delivery, and tie breaks would have been a high probability in deciding the match.
Only three times from thirty seven service games had Anderson been broken coming into his contest with Federer.
Federer broke Anderson as many times just in the opening set.
In the first game, the South African was clearly nervous, and the Swiss number one pounced on this - an Anderson backhand landing long gave Federer the break and a perfect start.
Perfection was the aim, and Federer came as close to it as anyone had so far in the tournament. The only area of concern was the first serve percentage - 38 - but it mattered little as Federer won six of the ten points when required to send a second serve down. 6-0
Set two began with Anderson still yet to win a game trailing 0-2, but he recovered temporarily by sneaking a break of the Swiss serve and levelling at 3-3.
At 4-4, Anderson served a 14 minute game, complete with six deuces.
He saved three break points, and wasted three game points, before a sliced Federer return forced an Anderson forehand to stray wide and serve was broken.
Roger Federer served out the match 6-0 6-4 and advanced to the semi finals.
- Denis Shapovalov (20) defeated Frances Tiafoe (28) 6-7(5) 6-4 6-2
Semi final match ups
John Isner (7) v qualifier Felix Auger-Aliassime
Roger Federer (4) v Denis Shapovalov (20)
Two Canadians have made the final four.
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