Federer Advances in the Tournament

The Swiss player Roger Federer secured his place in the next round of the tournament. He will face Serbian Novak Djokovic on Thursday. Djokovic will play against Austrian Dominic Thiem tonight, who defeated Federer in a previous match.

In addition, Federer solidified his position as the number three in the ATP ranking, with a lead of 685 points over Russian Daniil Medvedev. Medvedev will face Spanish Rafael Nadal on Wednesday.

This Tuesday's match was the second encounter between Berrettini and Federer. They previously played at Wimbledon. On that day, in a packed center court, the Italian player, full of nerves, could only win five games against Federer.

Now Berrettini has more experience and his nerves have dissipated after his overwhelming defeat against Djokovic.

For Berrettini, it was almost impossible to get worse after the match against the Serbian and on Tuesday, he improved, especially with his serve, his best weapon. In just half an hour, he had already won the same number of games as he did against Federer at Wimbledon. After saving the only break point in the twelfth game of the first set, he headed to a tiebreaker.

Then the composure of the six-time champion emerged, who ironically has had bad memories of tiebreakers and Wimbledon. Federer won with a score of 7-2, causing Berrettini to bow his head and lose faith in himself.

In the second set, the Roman player lost his serve from the very beginning, and Federer, who won almost 80% of points with his first serve, accelerated towards victory, ending the match in an hour and 18 minutes. This win allows him to stay afloat in the tournament.

Now his biggest obstacle awaits in order to reach the semifinals. The loss against Thiem has left him with no margin for error, and once he surpasses Berrettini, he will face Djokovic.

This will be their 49th encounter, the first since the famous Wimbledon final in which Federer wasted two match points.

In addition, this will be their seventh match at the ATP Finals, with three victories for Djokovic, two for Federer, and Federer's withdrawal in 2014 when he couldn't compete in the final due to injury.