ATP - Roger Federer v Philipp Kohlschreiber

Kohlschreiber is a player that started to make a more significant impact on the tour only from last year. When he beat the Russian Youzhny and won the tournament in Munich in April 2007, his long name finally started being pronounced right among the tennis world. He continued his great form in 2008 as well by first winning a tournie in Auckland and then making it to the 4th round of Australian Open. Philipp is one very diligent player that plays with a lot of touch, he likes to play long points, got a really solid backhand and it could be said he's an all-rounder with plenty of talent. Last year he also achieved a good results in Halle when he reached the semis to lose against Marcos Baghdatis. The German got one step closer to the title this year and I believe his progress is obvious. He got his best ranking ever just two months ago (24th) but quite poor play during the clay season dragged him down to a more realistic 40th rank where he lies now.

Roger Federer's time has finally come. This is a period in a year when the world number one has zero mercy for all of his opponents. In the semis versus Kiefer he got two early breaks and finished the match in a relaxing way afterwards. He returned the ball fantastic and almost every single 2nd serve by Kiefer resulted in Federer's point. In the 1/4 finals against the last year's finalist in Halle, Baghdatis, he also made couple of early breaks in each set. Seeing Roger doing all that with so much easy makes me wonder just one thing - how convincing will he beat Philipp today. Federer apparently couldn't wait for the grass season to begin, in this finals he will seek for his 59th straight win on this surface and there's no doubt that he will easily get it if he'll play at his level.

Backhand slice i top spin shots are his favorite weapons for putting the opponent 'to sleep' on grass, but usually all of his baseline shots can cause trouble to his rivals primarily because of the great game overview FedEx has. I think that during the exchange of shots Roger will really slow the German down and make him get through lots of trouble using his backhand diagonal shots that Fed can send under some very 'unpleasant' angles and as soon as he smells 'blood' he will get over to the net and finish the opponent. These two have met just once, interestingly it was in Halle in 2005. and Federer was better 6/3 6/4. Due to the big motivation and after dropping both of this year's Grand Slams, Roger will want to regain as much self-confidence as possible before 'his' Wimbledon and show that nobody can match him on grass at the moment. Therefore, an easy win is expected so the under would be the most logical choice in this match.

Higher stakes & GL.

Pick : Under 20 Games
Odds : 1.95
Stake : 7 / 10
Bookmaker : Unibet
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