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Novak Djokovic v Roger Federer: Rome Masters final – live!

Bryan will be here shortly. In the meantime why not read Kevin Mitchell’s report from Rome on a center court surface Djokovic has described as “dangerous”:

Djokovic took the Argentinian chair umpire Damian Steiner to task during a changeover in the second set, complaining that two visible dips, one on the baseline of the advantage court, made the surface hazardous. He did not receive a sympathetic response.

“That’s the thing that I wish I’d done better: not to get frustrated that much about the court,” he said later. “But people need to understand that at this level every single thing matters to us, especially the court.