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Roger Federer waved his new larger magic wand to a two set victory today over J. Hajek today in Hamburg, 6 – 4, 6 – 3. Fed started off a bit shaky but then poured it on and went on to to a straight set win to advance to the quarterfinals. He will face F. Mayer who advanced in a straight set victory over F. Lopez. Roger is testing out his new, larger Wilson racquet in both Hamburg and later at Gstaad to see how he feels from a comfort level. Obviously, an equipment change takes some time to adjust to. Very interesting to see Roger finally make this change after a disappointing first half of the 2013 season (especially the second round exit at Wimbledon). Many have called for Fed to make this change for some time as the other members of the big four use larger racquets, Roger using his 90″ Wilson wand was using one of the smallest ones on tour prior to testing out the new 98″ Wilson racquet designed for him. He seems to be making the change comfortably and I certainly hope it makes a big difference in his performance as we head to the hard court swing of the season in North America, especially at the US Open. One of the other ‘older” guys, Tommy Haas also advanced to the quarterfinals today with a straight set win over Berlocq. I hope Roger can win this event and the next smaller tournament in his home country of Switzerland and gain the confidence in the new equipment that he is going to need to be a serious threat to Djokovic, Murray and Nadal (providing Nadal’s knees are cooperative) at the final major of the year! GO FED!
