Roger Federer scripts incredible comeback to down Tennnys Sandgren at Australian Open

World .3 Roger Federer produced one of greatest comebacks of his career to reach  Australian Open 2020 semi-finals on Tuesday. third seed saved as many as 7 match points to complete a stunning 6-3, 2-6, 2-6, 7-6(8), 6-3 win over unseeded American Tennys Sandgren. This will be 15th time that Roger Federer will be making a semi-final appearance at Australian Open.

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Australian Open 2020: Roger Federer vs Tennys Sandgren highlights

Right from start of match, Roger Federer applied pressure on Tennys Sandgren and mand to open 3-2 le after Sandgren sent his backhand long. He mand to keep pressure on his opponent to win first set 6-3. However, in second set, it was Federer who created a lot of unforced errors giving Sandgren to take control of set. Serving at 2-5, Federer's backhand hit top of tape on set point and allowed Sandgren to win set 6-2 and level match. Federer hit 15 unforced errors throughout second set.

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In third set, unseeded American Tennys Sandgren raced to a 2-0 le after breaking Federer's service game. Without showing any signs of nerves, Sandgren continued to press hard for vant. Federer left court for a medical timeout at 3-0, but Sandgren never let down his guard and continued to dominate Federer. Swiss ace continued to fight to win every point. At 5-2, Federer mand to erase five set points on his serve, but Sandgren converted his sixth chance to take a 2-1 le in match.

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Australian Open 2020: Roger Federer comeback against Tennys Sandgren

In fourth set, both players held onto ir serves until Sandgren reached match point with Federer serving at 4-5. This is where Sandgren's inexperience came to haunt him. He h three match points to seal famous victory, but his errors gave chance for Federer to make a comeback and tie set as crowd roared.

set eventually moved to a tie-break where Federer gave American a 4-3 mini-break vant and ar three match points came Sandgren's way but Swiss erased all of m one by one to eventually close set 7-6 (10-8). After failing to wrap up match in fourth set, effects of started to take a toll mentally on American. Inspite of staying with Federer in early sts of final set, unseeded player fail to carry on momentum and lose final set 6-3. Federer could eir face long-time rival and second seed vak Djokovic or .32 seed Milos Raonic of Cana. 

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