AO - Night 7 - Federer v Fucsovics

Hungary’s Marton Fucsovics had done extremely well this year, and earned a round of sixteen meeting with third seed Roger Federer on RLA, Night Seven, 2020 AO.

For six games deuce was not visited, and at 3-3, Federer was at the line. Fucsovics converted the third of three break points and shocked the crowd by leading 4-3. He served out the set 6-4.

Roger was an angry man, and broke the Hungarian first chance he had in set two after delivering a love game himself. 

Federer saved a break point in game five then achieved a double break in the next game.

The set was cleaned up 6-1.

Still fuming after the first set calamity, Federer broke Fucsovics twice in the first three games of set three. The Swiss third seed lost focus and needed to save a couple of break points in game four. He was successful then - not so two games later when Fucsovics converted the second of two chances.

At 2-4, Fucsovics fancied his chances of regaining ground in the contest. No such luck as Federer broke for a 5-2 lead.

The set was Swiss, after a slight wobble trailing 30-40

Set four was the last we’d see of Marton Fucsovics in singles at Melbourne Park for 2020. Federer broke him in games one and seven, and served out the match 4-6 6-1 6-2 6-2, not facing a break point in the last set, in fact only visiting deuce on his serve in the final game.