Roger Federer shares what he would do on a rematch with Andrey Rublev
What would Roger Federer do different on a rematch against Andrey Rublev compared to the match the Swiss lost to the Russian on Thursday in Cincinnati? The 20-time Grand Slam winner replied: "Start better, you know, maybe can have him in the ropes maybe a bit longer and just wait it out a little bit. Maybe not give him the lead. A lead is always nice to have. You can free-swing after that. To be honest, it's tough when it's fast like this to tell you, Well, I could have done this or that. I just would have hoped for maybe an overall better performance, and I would have known what I would have known after playing this first round that maybe I would know the patterns maybe a tad bit more. He was mixing it up nicely, you know, on the serve, on the return. He's really consistent. You know what you're going to get, really. I think I just have to play better overall to hang with him."
Comparing Cincinnati speed surface to Wimbledon, Federer added: "This is faster, for sure, just because of the bounce. The moment the ball bounces, up here it's harder to control. So it's hard to get it down. Whereas in Wimbledon everything comes over hip height and it's easy to control from there. So that's one fact. Obviously the heat is another one. And then spins, also, you can work with. So this is definitely faster than Wimbledon."
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