It was written in the stars, it just had to be Federer, there were no two ways about it.
The stage was set, the actors ready to start procession but the story line had to follow just one path, and that was the path to Federer’s 20th.
Marin Cilic gave it his all, pushed Federer to the limits, made him come up with super human Tennis, but Federer was there waiting, waiting to answer all of Cilic’s questions. And he did so in emphatic fashion!
Roger Federer looked on song right from the word go, breaking Cilic early in the first set and running away with it 6-2.
Cilic though wasn’t going anywhere, he was in it for the fight, and fight he did.
Cilic snatched the second set from Federer’s reach, bringing the match to parity.
Federer though wasn’t going to be overawed by any of it, he had been there tons of times, and he was going to make that experience count. Federer ran away with the second set and it felt that Cilic could be a mere bystander in the 4th set.
However, Cilic wasn’t going down without a fight. Despite being broken by Federer early in the 4th, Cilic came back hard, pushing Roger to the limits and ultimately breaking down Federer’s resistance to win the 4th set 6-3.
We were back to square one, we were in for another decider in Melbourne, and the momentum seemed to be on Cilic’s side, but Federer was there last year as well, and that maybe could have worked in his favour, and it did.
Cilic was close to breaking Federer in his first service game of the 5th but Federer, like always, found a way out.
He then broke Cilic and it was a procession from there on.
Federer lifted his arms in delight as he won that final point, becoming the first man to win an astonishing 20 Grand Slam titles.
This is how Twitter reacted to this incredible feat.
