Federer gained an early break in the opening set but his 22-year-old opponent hit backto tie it at 2-2 and then had chances tomove ahead for the first time.
His fortunes did not improve after his return from Italy and the centre-back has made no secret of his desire tomove elsewhere to play first-team football before this summer's World Cup.
Shortening the period of entitlement to unemployment benefit, for instance, would only bring it backto the position in 1985, hardly as radical a move as it first appears.