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 MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Roger Federer clearly didn't want to empathize with opponent Marcos Baghdatis ahead of Sunday's Australian Open final. The top-ranked Federer was to be going for his seventh Grand Slam title on Sunday, facing a player who began the tournament ranked 54th in the world and was a 500-to-1 shot to win the season's first major.
Asked after his emphatic semifinal win over Nicolas Kiefer if he could remember being nervous before his first major final, Federer said the circumstances were entirely different.
He'd spent a lot of time, he said, waiting for his chance — spending a period ranked just outside the top 100 and another just outside the top 10.
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