Roger Federer's Great Escape vs Benoit Paire _ Halle 2018 Highlights

By Federer's standards, that looked good. It was the obvious place, the right hip. Yeah, well-worked point. Pär sticking with him. 15.30. Woah. That is scary. Warming up now. That's a rocket. Great balance, as ever. 15.30. Pay the price in the end for playing like that. The disrespect. Well played. And here is break point. First break point of the match goes to the man from France. 30.14. Pär says, go on. Spiel. Federer. Yes. The boiling point has been reached. Hauptspiel. Mr. Federer. It's challenging, but he's not going to get anything, surely, out of that. Well, you do feel Federer gets to break here. 19.40. 30.14. 9.50. Pär feels... Oh, that's a collector's item. 15.40. That's just too good. I mean, that backhand again is a lethal weapon. Oh, he gets it. Patient build-up from Federer. Spiel. There we go. Zweiter Satz Pär. An ace to Seelig. Seelig's side. 6-3. Ah, super play. The best of Federer there. Well done. That's a great shot. It was a tricky shot, wasn't it? It's incredible the core position that he adopts after serve, so that he can hit a backhand. He's right in the forehand corner, hitting this one. Forehand side, behind the service line. Oh, he's got it. It was never in until the last split second. What a return. You have to watch where that ball's going. It doesn't look as though it's going to go in in the last moment. Just curves and dips in. Federer. One more thunderous serve. 6-5. Oh, how tough was that? Oh, boy. He's done well there not to complain about the crowd, because I think the crowd thought it might have been going long and it was the end. Is he going to complain now? Don't think so. Credit to him there, because the crowd were noisy. He's done well to keep his head together, because it's tough to take that, isn't it? The service on the line, the forehand there. Brilliant return. Right on the line again. Yeah, the old frailty on the forehand, when the ball's hit softly to it. This he's undoing once more. And now it's Federer with a second match point. 8-7. Federer. By the skin of his teeth, he's made it through again to the quarterfinal. But what a contest. Genuinely thrilling. Hats off to Benoit Paire, because he really helped.