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Monday 19 February 2018
Federer overpowers Dimitrov to win 97th career title

registering his seventh vic- sive player would win and
tory in as many meetings. Dimitrov started the stron-
Federer's third title at the gest, winning his first game
Rotterdam tournament to love as he slammed
comes a day before he powerful forehands and
officially returns to the top backhands past Federer.
of the rankings, more than But the Swiss great quickly
five years after he was last started matching Dimitrov's
world No. 1. groundstrokes and con-
He will become the oldest verted his first break point
person to hold the No. 1 po- in the fifth game. Federer
sition when the rankings are broke Dimitrov again to go
updated on Monday. It's up 5-2 and then served out
been more than five years the set.
since Federer was last No. Federer kept the pressure
1, and 14 years since he first on Dimitrov in the second
reached the top spot. set, breaking the Bulgarian
Federer, who has 20 Grand in the first game and con-
Slams to his name, said his tinuing to dominate on his
next target is 100 career way to victory in just 55 min-
titles. utes.
He moved a step closer Federer won a massive 82
Sunday. percent of points on his ser-
Roger Federer of Switzerland plays a shot against Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov in the men's singles Federer said ahead of the vice compared to 55 per-
final of the ABN AMRO world tennis tournament at the Ahoy stadium in Rotterdam, Netherlands, final that the more aggres-
Sunday, Feb. 18, 2018. cent for Dimitrov. q
(AP Photo/Patrick Post)

By MIKE CORDER exclamation point on a re- said. "The goal was to make Kvitova beats Muguruza in
Associated Press markable week by winning the semis and I won the
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands the tournament for good tournament so of course Qatar for 2nd straight title
(AP) — Roger Federer measure. I'm incredibly excited and
came to the ABN AMRO Federer overpowered an so, so happy."
World Tournament aiming ailing Grigor Dimitrov 6-2, The 36-year-old Swiss ex-
to secure a return to the 6-2 in less than an hour to tended his domination over DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Petra ruza to 4-1.
top of the world rankings. win his 97th career title. the player once dubbed Kvitova continued her re- Just like in her match
He achieved that goal Fri- "What a week it's been. Ab- "Baby Fed" for the similari- markable comeback by against Wozniacki, the
day. On Sunday, he put an solutely amazing," Federer ties in their playing style, beating Garbine Muguruza 16th-seeded Kvitova made
in the Qatar Open final on a scratchy start, losing her
Sunday for her 13th straight first service game with two
win and second consecu- double faults to go 2-0
tive title. down. She then had two
The 27-year-old Czech, more double faults in the
a two-time Wimbledon fourth game to get bro-
champion, needed anoth- ken again, and was trail-
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