World No. 1 Roger Federer eliminated by Gilles Simon at Rogers Cup

By: Nick Patch, THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO - For nearly six hours on Wednesday, play at the Rogers Cup was disrupted by pounding rain, lightning and thunder. Then Gilles Simon went out and made more noise than all of it combined. France's Simon eliminated world No. 1 Roger Federer 2-6, 7-6, 6-4 at the $2.6-million tournament on Wednesday. "That's just unbelievable for me to win against him," Simon said. Federer, who won the tournament in 2004 and '06, became the first top seed to lose in his first match at the Rogers Cup since Lleyton Hewitt in 2002. "The problem was my game today," Federer said. Second-seeded Rafael Nadal looks like the favourite now, though he didn't look stellar in his first match Wednesday, struggling early on before ousting Ottawa-born qualifer Jesse Levine 6-4, 6-2. There were several other notable... [read full story]