WATCH: Alexander Zverev downs Roger Federer at Hopman Cup in Perth

In one of the highest quality singles matches ever seen in the 29-year history of the event, Federer showed plenty of the class which has won him a record 17 Grand Slams, but couldn’t quite hold off the bold 19-year-old German.

Despite the result, Switzerland kept their hopes of reaching Saturday’s final alive with a 2-1 win over Germany -Belinda Bencic beating Andrea Petkovic in the women’s singles and then teaming with Federer to win the deciding mixed doubles.

The men’s singles was a classic battle between the old and the new, with Federer left to rue his failure to serve out the first set when leading 5-3.

In the end, two booming first serves from Zverev, the first teenager to make the top 20 since Novak Djokovic in 2006, closed out the match in front of a record Perth tennis crowd of 13,785.

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