"It was enough to make me stop a match - beyond that I don't know, that's not my profession, " said Roddick.

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With both sides falling foul of referee Rob Debney and conceding a stream of penalties at rucks and scrums the match was a stop-go, error-strewn affair from the fifth minute front-row flare-up which handed Cipriani his opening penalty.

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The Scot comfortably held his next service game and took Federer to deuce in game nine, but he could not stop his opponent taking the match into a deciding set.

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Carroll then made the save of the match, a stunning one-handed stop to deny Boateng.

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But Swansea held on and man-of-the-match Dyer could have added a second but for another impressive Steele stop.

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