There was no being overawed by the occasion or freezing in the clutch points, nor any of the failings that have tripped up so many of the young pretenders who have shared a court with the 20-times Grand Slam champion.<\/p>\n
There was only composure and brilliance from the 20-year-old Tsitsipas who became Greece\u2019s first Grand Slam quarter-finalist and seems destined for bigger prizes in the near future.<\/p>\n
In short, he was not unlike the Federer of the early 2000s who crashed through the game\u2019s titans with fearless abandon and condemned a 35-year-old Andre Agassi to defeat in the 2005 U.S. Open final.<\/p>\n
After exiting Melbourne Park without a quarter-final for only the second time in the last 18 years, the Swiss shrugged off a suggestion from John McEnroe that the Rod Laver Arena crowd had just witnessed a \u201cchanging of the guard\u201d.\u201cHe\u2019s always going to say stuff. I love John. I\u2019ve heard that story the last 10 years. From that standpoint, nothing new there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Federer will note ruefully, however, that he has now been upset in the fourth round at two Grand Slams in succession, having been tipped out of the U.S. Open by unseeded Australian John Millman.<\/p>\n
His legs seemed heavy and his groundstrokes lacked punch towards the end of the Tsitsipas clash, which saw both players scramble hard for three hours and 45 minutes.He left all 12 break points he grabbed from the Greek go unconverted and blew four set points that would have given him a two-set lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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