The Serb, who beat Federer in the final of the world number one's home-town event in Basle on Sunday, looked a little jaded and appeared in trouble at 2-5 in the second set.
Federer is planning to play just 14 tournaments in 2013, even dropping his home town event in Basel and the Miami tournament, which has often been described as the biggest outside the four grand slams.
One benefit of the town hall event was to make his pitch to that base.
Between that and Springsteen, maybe this was not that different from an Obama town hall event in America after all.
After arriving in Minnesota, the President will host a town hall event in Cannon Falls, Minnesota at Lower Hannah's Bend Park.
He donned a coat and tie last year when he and other technology luminaries had dinner with President Obama, and wore a suit a few months later when Obama visited Facebook for a town hall event.
Police said Zinkhan arrived while the Town and Gown event was under way.
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Zinkhan arrived while the Town and Gown event was under way and got into a disagreement with his wife, police said.
Last week part of a long-awaited bypass to the Gwynedd town was opened temporarily to help another bicentenary celebration event in the nearby town of Tremadog, which Madocks also built.
Our first night, I ran into four friends who were also in town for the same event.
Charles Gibson of ABC news will moderate a town hall-type event.
In a statement, the trust said it was exploring the idea of hosting the event in another town.
Romney and his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, held a joint town hall-style campaign event Monday in New Hampshire.
Around 1890, he heard about an annual event in the town of Much Wenlock, in Shropshire, called the Wenlock Olympian Games.
He had helped to organise a charity event in the town last July, in which hundreds of people dressed up as nuns.
People in Corby were treated to a "royal appearance" on Saturday when Ms Agan appeared for an event in the town's Corporation Street.
She is being supported by friends and colleagues who are planning to hold a fundraising event in the town centre in the next few weeks.
"It really wasn't the sort of thing you wish to expose your children and grandchildren to in what was something that was supposed to be a pleasant event in the town, " she told BBC Wales.
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About 80 people turned out for the event in the Carmarthenshire town.
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This particular event was a reception for the DNC members who were in town for the DNC yearly meeting, which kicked off the day before that event.
Although hordes of media representatives and industry professionals have poured into town the festival remains a very public event.
Still there was enough spirit amid the umbrellas, raincoats and bin liners here on Bloomsday - the day in 1904 in which novelist James Joyce set Ulysses - to make this a worthwhile event in a dirty old town.
The event had been part of the town's calendar since 1960 but was axed last year after suffering major losses.
Blackshaw had created a Facebook event entitled "Smash Down Northwich Town" while Sutcliffe-Keenan set up a Facebook page called "Let's Have a Riot in Latchford".
But a number of local people have objected, saying the bubbly hairdresser had the wrong image and the event could be detrimental to the town.
The last time the cultural event was held in the Roman market town was back in 1973.
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It was always defined by the temptation of sunshine in December, an event set in a semi-tropical town known for its raging nightclubs, boutique hotels and consistent migration of celebrity.
Many of the towns have neighborhood watch groups and organize major events like National Night Out, an annual crime and drug prevention event sponsored by the National Association of Town Watch.
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