Murray stunned as P23 seeds fall at Queen’s SPORTS 2424 Wednesday, June 21, 2017 Federer claims 1100th tour win First victory of the grass-court season

Halle (Saale) veteran in Stuttgart last week. ighteen-time major champion Roger But the world number five was back to his Federer picked up his first win of the imperious best on Tuesday, as he broke in grass-courtE season by thrashing Japan’s the fourth game en route to the opening set. Yuichi Sugita in the first round at The 66th-ranked Sugita was no match for yesterday. his illustrious opponent, although he did The Swiss top seed, who skipped the entire avoid a second-set bagel by breaking when clay-court schedule in order to be fully fit for Federer served for the match. Wimbledon, brushed aside lucky loser Sugita Federer, 35, will be one of the favourites as 6-3, 6-1 in just 51 minutes, to bring up his he looks to land an eighth title at Wimbledon, 1100th win on the ATP Tour. which runs from July 3 to July 16. “I had never played him. And playing For now though the world number five will against me, all are always very motivated,” focus on winning the warm-up event in Halle Federer told the website. for a ninth time, and he will face in-form “That doesn’t make it easy, but I’m very home hope in the last 16. satisfied. That was a very good start into the Earlier on Tuesday, Mischa Zverev’s Gerry Weber Open.” brother and fourth seed Alexander eased to Federer, who won his first title a 6-3, 6-2 win over Paolo Lorenzi, while Kei since 2012 at the Australian Open in January, Nishikori fought back from a set down to lost the first match of his return to German defeat 6-7 (7/9), 6-3, 6-4. ’s

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