To be fair Roger Federer played fantastic today for his first match of the season (won 6-1, 6-1 to Cameron Norrie, it was an exhibition but players usually are serious when playing the Hopman Cup). But my concern still remains his fitness.
It was expected for Federer to just stomp his class against Norrie, so I'm not surprised by the result though.
Novak Djokovic was great too in Abu Dabi, one thing is for sure, no way Roger Federer will win if he eventually bumps into Novak Djokovic. He will need to avoid it to win the title.
I agree. Seems that Novak Djokovic has his numbers. Roger Federer really needs to play perfect just to be able to beat Novak so it would be very difficult specially if your body is giving you a different signals already because of age.