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Wimbledon 2008: Best of day 9
July 3, 2008
If there was a prize for endurance, Ancic would already have won it. Not only had he taken an exhausting 11 hours 43 minutes to get to the last eight, almost double Federer's time, he also contested 180 games before Wednesday.
Federer had played 67 fewer games and he did not want to linger longer than necessary on Centre Court.
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"He makes you play the hardest you can and on the other hand you can't give him anything," he said. "There's not one point you get for free. I never saw him serving better."
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Incidentally, Ancic was the last man to beat Federer on grass. He upset Federer in the first round on his Wimbledon debut in 2002, since when the Swiss has won 64 consecutive matches on grass, 39 at the All England Club where he has lifted the trophy five times in a row.
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