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Roger Federer included another in his cap Sunday by winning the ATP Indian Wells Masters title. Federer guaranteed a record-equalling fifth title at Indian Wells, proceeding with his vocation resurgence with a 6-4, 7-5 triumph over Stan Wawrinka. Federer, sidelined around six months after knee surgery a year ago, came back to win his eighteenth Grand Slam title at the Australian Open in January. With Sunday’s triumph in the all-Swiss last, Federer joined Novak Djokovic as the main men to win five Indian Wells titles, adding to those he won in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2012.

At 35, Federer is the most established ATP player to win one of the first class Masters titles, supplanting Andre Agassi who was 34 when he won in Cincinnati in 2004.

“It’s been only a children’s story week at the end of the day,” said Federer, who missed Indian Wells a year ago as a result of damage.

“I’m not as shocked as I was in Australia, but rather still this comes as a major, enormous astonishment to me, in any case, to win here again and beating the players that I did and the way I did.

“I couldn’t be more glad. It’s a flat out, enormous begin to the year for me. A year ago I didn’t win any titles. I don’t think I was in any finals aside from possibly Brisbane a year ago. The change is sensational, and it feels extraordinary.”

The fast advance means tenth positioned Federer should reassess his 2017 objectives. Preceding the Australian Open his point was to get his positioning to as high as eighth when Wimbledon was over.

“The objectives are plainly changing after this fantasy begin,” Federer said.

While Federer had won 19 of 22 earlier gatherings with Wawrinka – including a semi-last win in Melbourne – he noticed that his countryman would be no simple check as he played his first competition in America since winning the US Open in September.

Be that as it may, Federer guaranteed a firmly challenged first set with a break in the tenth diversion, pushing Wawrinka into a forehand blunder to end a strained rally for a set point, on which Wawrinka sent another forehand long.

Wawrinka reacted promptly with a tear to open the principal set – after Federer had held every one of the 42 of his administration recreations in the competition to that point.

He had spared the solitary break point he confronted – in his straight-sets pounding of Rafael Nadal in the fourth round – however sent a strike long on break indicate give Wawrinka the preferred standpoint in the set.

Wawrinka then withstood two break focuses to hold for a 2-0 lead, which demonstrated fleeting as Federer won the following three amusements to take a 3-2 lead.

Wawrinka a Federer fan

At long last Wawrinka wound up serving to spare the match. A strike into the net gave Federer a shot, and he seized it with a volley champ.

“I’ve lost some intense ones against you, however when you played the last in Australia, I was your greatest fan,” a tore up Wawrinka told Federer at the trophy function. “So congrats on your rebound and congrats on today.”

In spite of the fact that he possesses three Grand Slam titles, Wawrinka was playing in quite recently his fourth Masters last and has won only one of the renown occasions – beating Federer in the last at Monte Carlo in 2014.

“It’s an extreme misfortune,” he said. “As it were, I’m truly glad to make the last. It’s an extraordinary outcome on that, yet you generally need more.”

In the wake of expecting that knee inconvenience in the wake of the Australian Open would moderate his season, Wawrinka was satisfied to play at an abnormal state.

“After Australia, I wasn’t in a decent position,” he said. “I was ridiculously battling with my knee. I didn’t know to be back here in that level that speedy.

“In any case, regardless I lost the last,” he said. “So it was difficult.”