“I'm very happy with my first round, to be honest,” Federer said.
“I protected my serve well, didn't allow Denis really to get into my service games very often. I was always in the lead, as well. Obviously that helps. I can free swing maybe a little bit more. At the same time I think I have to do some defense, some offense. It was a bit of everything.”
“I can trust my second serve in particular,” Federer said.
“When you trust your second serve, you can go after your first serve. I have good variation, to be quite honest. This court plays slightly different to the Hopman Cup. At the Hopman Cup also I served very well."
“I think I can be happy how I got out of the blocks from the off-season. That's always the most tricky part: how do you get through your service games time and time again, because if you don't get broken much, or hardly ever, not at all, you have so little pressure on the return games, you can really try out different things.
“I started to feel that midway through the first set already that it was going to be difficult for Denis to get into my service games. That relaxes you from the baseline. Then good things really happen.”
“It was a good match – I liked the way he played,” said Federer, who also faced Evans at the same stage at Wimbledon in 2016. “He's got all the shots, likes to take chances, takes the ball early. It's nice to see him back on the tour as well. I'm happy for him that he won his first round.”
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