A victory for the old days

Roger Federer became champion of the Masters 1000 Paris-Bercy in the final after beating Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. This is the third title of the season for the Swiss, the sixty-ninth of his career and the eighteenth in an event of this nature.

Roger Federer in Paris came full circle by becoming the second player in history (after Andre Agassi ) to win seven Masters 1,000 different career, he has only Monte Carlo and Rome. The Swiss would not conform with the sweetness of first reaching the final in the 'city of love', the final number 99 in his career, but he wanted to put the icing on the cake with a title as important and necessary for him . He got to bend to Jo-Wilfred Tsonga by an aggregate score of 6-1 and 7-6 (3) after one hour and twenty minutes in a clash played on Center Court at the Palais Omnisport.

Federer is one of those players who, for more years to comply, you can never say it's over. Although statistics showed Paris to the Swiss appointment had only been able to shine in minor appointments in Doha champion and Basel, as always offers you a place among the favorites in any capacity. You only need to see how the match against Tsonga began to assert this maxim. After being with side 15-40 in the opening game, pulled expertise to solve your service and sign below the first break of the match. He took early control of a game between two players clash in ways that offered respectable a wide range of strokes made with a sixth gear. And in that frame of mind who best manages the times is the Swiss master. Tsonga, excessive rainfall, returned to 'give away' service with a double fault in the fourth set and ended up conceding the first act with only the game of honor to his credit, too much punishment for a player who wanted but could not.

A stuck Tsonga lacked
a devoted audience cheered their champion (Tsonga won in Paris in 2008), 'Jo' calmed the nerves at the start of the second act and suggested to Federer, who in full control of the services on rest, was the one who had to save more options of danger. A deep right Gallo-ball break in the eighth game, hailed as the public good, but that technology was determined to prove he was bad-could mark a turning point, but he escaped alive that a rival he was knocked out moments. Finally the set went to tie-break, sudden death, the Basel controlled from start to finish. A strong finale for a player who never ceases to amaze.

With this victory, Roger Federer added 802 on the ATP Tour, occupying the seventh place in the ranking leading Jimmy Connors (1242), Ivan Lendl (1071), Guillermo Vilas (923), John McEnroe (875), Andre Agassi (870 ) and Stefan Edberg (806). The Swiss can keep adding victories to his credit at the Masters Cup in London where you have the need to defend the title won last year after winning the final to Rafael Nadal . The O2 ahead. In its best version.