Federer beats Safin for 3rd successive Halle title
Sun Jun 12, 2005 10:18 AM ET
HALLE, Germany (Reuters) - World number one Roger Federer
beat Australian Open champion Marat Safin 6-4 6-7 6-4 to
win his third consecutive Halle Open title on Sunday.
Top seed Federer, who is also going for a third successive
Wimbledon title later this month, produced another masterly
performance on grass, his finesse and consistency proving
too much for the powerful but erratic Russian.
Federer extended his three-year winning streak on grass to
29 matches but is still well short of Bjorn Borg's record
of 41 over five years in from 1976 to 1980.
Second seed Safin had beaten the Swiss in their last meeting,
saving a match point in a five-set thriller in this year's
Australian Open semi-finals. They had never previously met
on grass.
Safin, who has been complaining of a troublesome left knee
since the Indian Wells Pacific Life Open in March, was upset
by controversial line calls during the match but did well to
take the second set tiebreak 8-6.
Federer broke in the third game of the third set, however,
and that was enough to give him victory in a high-tempo match
which thrilled the spectators packed into the 12,500-seater
Gerry Weber stadium.
The two players meet again in the doubles final later on Sunday,
Federer partnering fellow countryman Yves Allegro and Safin
playing with Sweden's Joachim Johansson.
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