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1. Voo de Mar says:

   January 31, 2025 at 11:27 am

   Points won by each set: | 45-44, 33-27, 32-30 |
   Points won directly behind the serve:
   24 % Robredo – 31 of 125
   29 % Federer – 25 of 86

   A night session shocker on Louis Armstrong Stadium. Robredo [22], along with Ferrer, F.Lopez, Youzhny & Nieminen, belonged to a group of [7] Federer’s peers, who the Swiss maestro was regularly defeating, usually without any problems. Prior to their meeting in New York, Federer had defeated Robredo ten times (24:3 in sets), but the year 2013 meant Federer’s crisis (he captured just one title that year – Halle) while Robredo was full of positive energy after the year 2012 when he suffered a knee injury and missed many big main-level tournaments (sidelined for five months, dropped from No. 47 to 470 in the ATP ranking). I wouldn’t say that Federer played a bad match, he was serving at his normal level, furthermore he was very good at the net, but his break point conversion was catastrophic. Generally bad percentage of break points won (12% in this case) means nothing because the player:
   – wins the set anyway in a tie-break
   – wastes break points in games he ultimately wins
   – loses break point games in sets he holds all his games already leading with a break
   …but that fourth round match was different: Federer’s break points weighted profoundly as he lost seven games when he created them, and he did it in each set with a situation that converting them would put him in front (number of break points wasted in chronological order set by set: 1-1 | 1-3-2 | 1-5). It was a real disaster because Robredo was never a big server, thus in the vast majority of those break points the ball was in play, once even Federer was playing an overhead from a comfortable position. Federer broke Robredo twice in the opener (at 1:2 and 4:5) squandering break points at 0:1 and 4:3 in that set he lost 3/7 in a tie-break.

   Serve & volley: Robredo 0, Federer 8/10

   # Comparison of their three major three-setters:
   Aussie Open 2007 (QF): Federer d. Robredo 6-3, 7-6, 7-5… 2 hours 20 minutes… Total points: 119-94… Breaks: 6-4
   US Open 2009 (4R): Federer d. Robredo 7-5, 6-2, 6-2… 1 hour 48 minutes… Total points: 102-66… Breaks: 5-0
   US Open 2013 (4R): Robredo d. Federer 7-6, 6-3, 6-4… 2 hours 24 minutes… Total points: 110-101… Breaks: 4-2

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2. Voo de Mar says:

   January 31, 2025 at 11:55 am

   Robredo’s H2H records against the Big 4 guys (5-31):
   1-11 Federer
   0-7 Nadal (once two points away from victory)
   2-7 Djokovic
   2-6 Murray (lost twice squandering match points)

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