Does anyone else think that Fed was told off for winning the first match too easily, hence the much closer score in the second one? I can then envisage him being asked to throw the third one, since he'd already won the series, 'or we aren't going to throw millions of $$s at you to play another exhibition against Sampras in the future'.

Just a thought ...

Well done Pistol Pete but you can be sure if the Fed needed to beat Pete to lift a grand slam title he would have won.

lol, very cynical there steven...I dont think any fixing went on though, the surface in all 3 matches was really quick apparently, faster than most of the ATP tourney ones which really helped Pete, as his serve is still one of the greatest ever....on a slower surface I think that Roger would have more one-sided wins....Pete had chances in the 1st one as Bethan said, he led 4-2 first set...I think he just started to shake the rust off over the 3 games and maybe having already won the mini-series, Roger relaxed slightly today