6-2 - Lu hits a great return to Federer, but the Swiss shoots a forehand winner right back past him, which is followed up by an ace, an unreturnable serve and a forehand that sends him into the second round!

4-2 - It looks like another game of fruitlessly chasing shadows for Lu, but he battles back from 40-0 down to deuce. He can't quite complete the break, and Federer serves out with an ace, as if to say "Don't even try"!

3-1 - Federer runs Lu ragged around the court before killing the ball stone dead at the net to hold.

-- - An outstanding drops shot form Lu crosses the net at an acute angle, giving Federer no chance at all. He then is perhaps a tad unfortunate to see sliced shot called out, but he decides against a challenge.

0-1 - After getting up to 0-30, Federer struggles to reutrn anymore of Lu's first serves, but an unforced error from Lu takes the game to deuce. Federer fires a forehand too long before returning into the net for Lu to hold.

5-3 - Lu does not let that lost sight of a break knock him off his stride, and he serves up four unanswered points to keep himself in the set.

4-2 - Lu pushes Federer hard now, forcing Federer to whip a forehand into the net. Federer challenges a call on serve, but he was wrong, and then copmpounds his error by blasting into the net for his opponent to hold.

3-1 - Lu gets on the board in this set, as Federer overhits a forehand for the man from Taipei to hold to love. Donald Sinden is in the crowd, wearing a bright orange jacket. Do you even know who Donald Sinden is?

3-0 - Another deft drop shot at the net sees Federer hold once more. he's now going through these games so quickly it's difficult to keep up!

1-0 - Federer opens the second set, holding in the minimum of fuss.

- - Federer's superb return pushes Lu right back on the first point to get 0-15, but a great wide serve from Lu on the next gives Roger no chance. 15-15...

6-5 - Another very straightforward hold of serve from the Swiss, though he's puffing and blowing on his chair now looking not a little surprised to have been given such a tough workout.

5-4 - What a contrast to the previous game: four big serves in, and Federer wraps up that one in little more than 60 seconds. What price now the 14-time Grand Slam champ breaking in the next game to win the set? There will be massive pressure on Lu...

- - Lu pops in a first serve to save the break point - he's saved five of six break points in total now - and we're back to deuce.

- - Yet another hard-fought game, with long rallies - these lush, green early tournament courts seem a little slower than the ones at Queen's a couple of weeks ago. Lu ends up conceding a break point after a weak shot into the net...

3-3 - You can almost hear the planets realigning themselves once more: Federer completes the break back as Lu nets a backhand, and the normal order of the universe is restored after that brief, shocking interlude.

2-3 - Lu hits a lovely winner to get to 15-30 on Fed's serve, then attacks with another forehand to try to earn break points. He overdoes it, but earns break point on the next shot with a great backhand... AND FEDERER NETS TO CONCEDE THE BREAK! Incredible, Federer looked well in control and is now, unthinkably, a break down in this first set to a play from Chinese Taipei.

- - Lu plays a blinder to save the first break point, then Federer mishits one off the racquet frame to blow the second. It's a deuce game.

2-1 - Four first serves in by Federer only mean one thing: it's another love game served out by the Swiss legend, and he's made a great start. Will Federer cruise to victory this fornight? Will Roland Garros prove to be an inspirational boost or a heartwarming swansong for Federer's career? Impossible to say just now, but everything will be clear in 14 days' time...

- - Lu slips to 0-30, looking nervous as he does so, but then has picked himself up by winning a first point with a good serve, and adding another after a long, slow rally that makes it feel like the grass is slower than normal this year.

1-0 - Federer simply rips through Lu in that first service game - a mighty impressive start to his campaign, with four unanswered points.

- - There's a world of difference for Lu between winning a lowly Challenger event - even if he did beat the fast-rising Benjamin Becker to do so - and facing Rog on what he considers an emotional extension to his back garden.

- - Surprisingly Taiwanese player Lu has never played Federer, even though as the world number 65 he's been eligible to line up in the same tournaments for some time. What we can say is that Lu has shown some decent form of late, including winning the Challenger event in Israel.