August 17, 2004: The day Federer lost two matches at the Olympics

On this day, August 17 in 2004, in Athens, world No 1 and gold medal favorite Roger Federer was eliminated from the Olympic Games in both the singles and doubles events. In singles, the Swiss was defeated in the second round by the 79th ranked player in the world, a young Czech named Tomas Berdych, 4-6, 7-5, 7-5. An hour later, he came back on court with his partner Yves Allegro only to lose…

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