And the story goes on when King Roger Federer is rushing to his six crown of royal Wimbledon courts. There is only one man that maybe will be able to stop Emperor of Grass courts and definitively it is not Marat Safin. Rafael Nadal is aiming into this title also and need to save strenght for final and that is why I think he will finish big Russian. Former no. 1 Safin rebuild some of his form that we used to watch 3-4 years ago. Defeating Seppi, Wawrinka and Lopez good players proves that Marat on grass improved and feels much better than few months or year ago when he was losing nearly all matches in every tour. Also he eliminated Novak Djokovic (no. 3 seed) but as I watched this clash there is no doubt for me that Djokovic lost with himself first and them with his opponent. Safin was playing properly but if you want to fight with Roger Federer at form, at his favourite surface you need to get galactic level of yours game. Safin plays well, with help of his fighting spirit and strong 1'st serve he was able to beat Fognini, Djokovic, Wawrinka, Seppi and Lopez but with the last three he lost a set. Against Lopez even statistics show that he need to improve if he want to fight with Federer. Safin is using well his first serve, winning always around 80% of points from it, but only half of hits are his first. Second serve is much weaker and Safin mostly take around 50-60% of those. Lopez had 8 break-point chances and used three and Safin made over 20 unforced errors when Swiss is making around 13 in every match. Roger poses well balanced serve, both 1'st and 2'nd is giving him a lot of points. Mario Ancic in my opinion stronger server than Safin wasn't able to hit too much aces to Roger who was returning many of his fire hits. In my opinion in situation when Federer will return well 1'st serve of Russian his game will be out, becouse Safin build most actions on his strong serve. When that happen Safin will start to get angry, he will lose concentration and breaks will go on. Federer showed high form in every match and I don't think he will low for clash with Safin. Safin once won with Federer in 2005 Australian Open and it is enough, Swiss will take another one win over Russian. I think this line is very interesting becouse in situation when Safin will start to get mad he won't be able to hold his serve for long and Federer didn't used to give up his own serve. Good Luck!

Pick: Roger Federer to win with -7 games handicap at 2.05 with Pinnacle: 8/10 

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