In Which Your Humble Scribe Admits That He Was Wrong. Or Possibly Right.

I closed my piece for Friday with this paragraph:

But Federer is clearly well below 100 percent. There's just no question. He won yesterday because Youzhny got hurt. He plays Feliciano Lopez in the next round, and, barring some miracle of healing, Federer is going to lose.

Despite expecting to see a one-sided win for Feliciano Lopez, I watched anyway. And what I saw instead was what I have come to see as standard Roger Federer, in which against a player like Lopez, here the 31-seed, a veteran player, legitimately one of the, yes, thirty-one best players in the world, Federer is just simply, brilliantly better. The match was Roger in full flow, and, as with every match in which he achieves that state, it was beautiful to behold. And beautiful despite it being something of a whuppin', three-three-and-five to Federer, finished in a mere 1:46 for three sets, less than the time many players take to play two.

So I was wrong. Federer very, very much did not lose. Unless, perhaps, I was right: that among Federer's myriad other skills, we can now add a magical ability to heal.

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