The swiss duo Roger Federer and Belinda Bencic can be something special in the tennis tournament Hopman Cup in the australian city of Perth, where countries compete against each other.
In Saturday’s final against Germany won the Federer and Bencic the crucial doublekamp over Alexander Zverev and Angelique Kerber with the digits 4-0, 1-4, 4-3.
In the third and decisive set, it should be decided in the tiebreak, and Federer and Bencic sharpest in some very entertaining duels between the four top players.
With the victory of 2-1 in matches was defending Switzerland will therefore last year’s Hopman Cup title.
And it came to pass after the exact same playbook as last year’s finale between the two tennisnationer.
In the two singlekampe, there was the game earlier Saturday, Germany and Switzerland won a match each.
Federer launched finaledysten over three games to win 6-4, 6-2 over Zverev. It brought Switzerland in front with 1-0 in matches. It was also the case in 2018.
Kerber followed then up with a win over Bencic in the 6-4, 7-6. Thus equalized Germany to a 1-1 draw in matches. Again, it was also the scenario last year.
Federer has now won the Hopman Cup three times as a player, since he also earlier in his career, won with his partner Martina Round. It happened in 2001.
This is Federer the only player to have won the tournament three times.
