Roger Federer continues the defence of his title of the tournament in Dubai, which is on hard courts and in the category "ATP 500". The second in the scheme and six-time champion in UAE beat Fernando Verdasco from Spain with 6: 4, 6: 3 with an hour game on the central court and he is in the quarterfinal.
The lefties from Madrid began impetuous the game and samples for 2: 0. Federer gradually found his rhythm, leaped more aggressively, began often to come to the net and turned the break for 3: 4 with a zero game.
Verdasco started to make mistakes more often, and the greatest from Grand Slam reached a new breakthrough to zero, and then at 5: 4 served for the set. He again didn`t give a point to the Spaniard closed the part with an ace after half an hour game.
Roger began with a break the next set. Than however was a bad service game of the father of four children and Verdasco gave back the break to stop the negative series of 6 lost games. Federer broke again after a collision with the frame of the racket to come again forward with 3: 2. At 3: 5 the Spaniard served to stay in the game. But Federer decided to finish the match. He led with 40:15 and implemented the first match point with ruthless re-tur according to the rights.
The second-ranked ended the match with 17 winning hits (four aces) and 15 unforced errors. Fernando Verdasco recorded 13 winners (5 aces) and 26 errors (3 doubles).
In the quarterfinals Federer expects the French Richard Gasquet, who beat very difficult Roberto Bautista Agut from Spain with 6: 4, 3: 6, 7: 6 (6).
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