Roger Federer vs Gilles Simon • Basel 2018

Surprised no one remembers Simon's famous 1970 Shanghai victory over Fed

Lol, 1970 shanghai.

Lol look, at the h2h... Shanghai 1970 ?

Federer easily

This match was so boring that I had to switch channels many times.

Fed is sweating crazily again. End is very near?! I hope not

Let's go Gilles, you can do it!

One thing for sure if federer serve is like this he is not going to make it at all. He is getting broken very easily even by high ranked players. And federer serve is regarded as one of the best in the world.

Can't see see fed ever equalling Connors tally of 109 singles titles

Most of Connors tournaments were in smaller tournaments. Most of Rogers were at the elite level.

If he keeps starting all his matches badly, sooner or later he'll be knocked out by someone like Zverev or Tsitsipas

I was never worried about this match. The real struggles will be in the semis and finals.

He is able to break back against lower ranked players but top ones don't give a chance to break back so he ll lose the match there....

Looks like a wta match.... Serve broken 6 Times and 2 sets r not finished

It now looks like not just Rafa's 17, but even Roger's 20 is in danger to be run over by tennis machine novak

Fed in Novak's bottom half of the draw in Paris.

What is it about Fed not getting broken again? lol

Too much of errors from Federer serve

Tsitsipas will be tough. So will Medvedev.

Talk about struggling, against Simon too. Ridiculous. How many unforced errors

Yes

Federer was not born then

Federer looked so far out of rhythm and I have seen couple of zverev match he is playing like he really wants it.

Fed has this without any doubt.....

He has to beat Tsitsipas or Medvedev before Zverev and they are both on fire. Especially Tsitsipas.

Yeah they're both oldies but I never guessed that they were so old... Hahaha

It's all easy for Fed, no-one to beat.

Bad start

Really frustrating to play Simon cuz he dordnt bloody miss.

No I feel federer is trying really too hard... Trying to be over aggressive. All the shots that he is playing he is literally blasting.

But no worry he will break back