French Julien Benneteau (ranked 49) upset World No1 Roger Federer in his openeing roung at BNP Parrisbas Masters 1000 on Wednesday,3-6,7-6,6-4.

When Federer cruised through the first set 6-3,it looked like it would be another routine win for the Swiss.Benneteau,though,didn’t relinquish his serve in the second set and took the eventual tiebreak 7-4 to level the match.

After failing to create any break opportunities in the first two sets,the Fenchmen took Federer’s serve at 1-1 in the third and finished it 6-4.Benneteau played the match of his life,serving at a staggering high percentage and gutsily taking the game to the world No1.Federer didn’t play bad,Benneteau was in a great day and got the biggest victory of his carrer at age 27,in his own country,supported by the French fans going crazy form the end of the second set until the end of the encounter.

Benneteau fell on his knees when he ended the match with an ace.Federer,who challenged the call just to make sure,was already waiting at the net for the handshake while the replay was rolling.When Benneteau lifted his head,tears were rolling down his cheeks. “It’s magic.It’s fabulous.Everything you can imagine.All those words.”Benneteah said.

Oddly,Federer has never passed the quarter-finals at Paris-Bercy in seven appearences,and it’s the third time he lost in his opening match.

“I can definitly play much better,but I can also play much worse.”said Federer “It wasn’t a bad performance.I think Julien,he went out,and got the victory.I definitly had chances,I missed them.Seems to happen to me a bit now,looking back at the Basel final and the US Open final....”

World No2 Rafael Nadal survived a 3 hours 15 minutes battle against fellow Spaniard Nicolas Almagro in three gueling sets 3-6,7-6,7-5 and Scot Andy Murray(No 4) also had to go the distance 6-4,5-7,6-4 with American James Blake.

No3 Serbian Novak Djokovic beat Argentine Juan Monaco 6-3,7-5.Djokovic folows up on his great win over Federer at the Basel’s final in Switzerland on Sunday.

No5 Argentine Juan Martin del Potro retired Marat Safin on Tuesday in a thriller 6-4,5-7,6-4.The Russian,only 29,annouced the Paris tournament would be the last of his professional career.

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