The match lasted one minute short of five hours, although it was short of very little else.

It had character: the warrior versus the artist, the stoic versus the romantic, and the economiser versus the prodigal.

It had plot: Baghdatis had tossed away the second set but still created improbably fascinating comebacks from breaks of service down in the third and fourth,

before Djokovic dug a trench of resistance in the fifth which the Cypriot could not overcome. (summary from Richard Jago from the Guardian UK)

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