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Qatar Open Federer’s

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Roger Federer added to his long list of remarkable statistics Saturday by winningthe23rd titleofhiscareerwith n6-3,6-l win over Ivan Ljubicic in the final ofQa tar Open.
It was both the 14th final in a row and the 20th match in a row that Federer had won, and his 44 th victory in46matches.
All these are comparable to some of the better achievements of greats like Pete Sampras, Ivan Lendl and Stefan Edberg, and given how much more physical the modern game is becoming, Federer's efforts appear all the more remarkable.
But the triple Grand Slam titleholder was not especially interested in such things.
For him it was more important to have gone through the tournament without having dropped his serve and to know that, with the defence of his Australian Open title only a week away, much of his game is already where he wants it tobe
"It’s always special to win somewhere for the first time, but I just hope
I can keep it up," he said. “Because I have a very important tilletodefendin Melbourne"
Curiously, despite the one-sided score-line, ljubicic came closer than anyone to achieving the break of serve which nobody had managed throughout ten sets.
He had a heavier game than Federer and appeared to try to play big on the important points to embarrass him.
It made sense but it also betrayed Ljubicicalittie.
He had Federer at love-40 in the sixdt game and was unable to take advantage of two Federer second serves on two of them; then he had a great chance to put Federer at love-40 again when he was serving for the first set, but from love-30 missed a volley and then overhit with an ambitious backhand return.
"Winning the game from love-40 down at 4-2 was Important, and there was another opportunity for him at 5-3. These were moments when I thought this is not the direction I want to be go ingin.
"But after I had won those games I think I broke his belief which is exactly what I wanted 1 never lost my serve andlputpressureonmyopponent."
Federer was sometimes forced to scuttle quickly to contain the bombshells from ljubicic, who had won three of the previous six encounters including the last one 15 months ago in the Wimbledon champion's home cityofBasle.
But Federer was also constructing points, as usual, in a wide variety of ways.
/liter Ljubicicserved adouble fault disastrously to concede a break at the start of the second set. the world number one increased the frequency ofhis net attacks.
He concluded the next game with a fierce volley and finished the match with a deft approach facilitating an exquisitely angled forehand volley winner - moments which would have pleased his new coach Tbny Roche, who apparently will be trying to develop this aspect of Federer's game further.
"At the moment I think Federer is playing better than Sampras did," said Ljubicic. "It'sjustthatPetewentonfor seven years. Wfe will have to see through theyears how Roger copes."
Federer next travels to Kooyong to play an exhibition tournament before beginning the defence of the Australian Open in nine days time.