{"id":85214,"date":"2021-06-14T22:22:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T22:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=85214"},"modified":"2021-06-15T00:01:31","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T00:01:31","slug":"federer-flying-in-return-to-grass-at-halle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=85214","title":{"rendered":"Federer flying in return to grass at Halle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roger Federer <\/a>returned to the court with a win over qualifier Ilya Ivashka as the Swiss player chases his 11th Halle Open title after withdrawing from the French Open to prioritise the grass-court season<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Federer held serve throughout in a 7-6 (4), 7-5 win over his Belarusian opponent but didn't break until the last game of the match. Federer is now 69-7 in career matches in Halle, his favored warmup for Wimbledon. Five of his eight career Wimbledon titles have come after winning Halle the same year.<\/p>\n

Federer pulled out of the French Open after the third round last week, saying he wanted to look after his fitness following two knee operations.<\/p>\n

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He moves on to play either up-and-coming Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime or big-hitting Hubert Hurkacz of Poland in the second round.<\/p>\n

Sebastian Korda of the United States upset sixth-seeded Roberto Bautista Agut 6-3, 7-6 (0) despite being ranked 42 places below his Spanish opponent at 52nd. That extended Bautista Agut's slump after a surprise second-round loss to Henri Laaksonen at the French Open.<\/p>\n

Seventh-seeded David Goffin retired against Corentin Moutet in their first-round match after having been close to victory. Goffin fell in the second set but still served for the match at 6-1, 5-3 before losing the next four games and retiring at the end of the set with the score level at 6-1, 5-7.<\/p>\n

U.S. qualifier Marcos Giron beat Canada's Vasek Pospisil 7-6 (4), 7-6 (6) and Australian Jordan Thompson saw off local wild card Daniel Altmaier 6-2, 7-6 (4).<\/p>\n

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Roger Federer returned to the court with a win over qualifier Ilya Ivashka as the Swiss player chases his 11th Halle Open title after withdrawing […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85215,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85214\/revisions\/85215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}