Sign up to the Front Page newsletter for free: Your essential guide to the day's agenda from The Telegraph - direct to your inbox seven days a week. Federer serves first and gets off to a bit of a howler - a double fault making it 0-30.
Mannarino then plays a brilliant forehand winner to get three break points, this wasn't in the script. . . Federer saves the first, before Mannarino goes long with a backhand.
The Swiss plays a blistering forehand to save the third - that's more like it. Another fine forehand, this one a winner, helps him win five points on the bounce and he holds to 40.
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