Wimbledon 2012: Roger Federer swats aside Fabio Fognini on Centre Court to reach third round In the Royal Box, both the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall offered the six-times champion a standing ovation after Federer slid smoothly into the third round with a 6-1 6-3 6-2 demolition of Italian Fabio Fognini, another top 100 player made to look faintly clueless by Federer's evergreen brilliance. The exercise lasted just a minute under an hour and a quarter, as if Federer had been told his Royal watchers had another pressing appointment elsewhere. Not to mention Sir Bruce Forsyth and wife, who evidently felt it had been nice to see him, to see him nice. Fognini, a 25-year-old ranked number 68 and good enough to reach the quarter-final at Roland Garros last year, did not play badly but threw in one dismal service game at 1-1 in the second and that, effectively, was that. Federer's serve and backhand were working so sweetly that even John McEnroe, watching from the commentary box, felt they were ticking over as well as he had seen. In the final set, Federer, watched by his parents here now that he was back on his familiar Centre Court patch, dropped only two points on serve as he took his ace count to 13. I'm very pleased. It wasn't that easy a match. I played a great first round and now a great second round. I'm serving well, moving well and all of a sudden you can be winning quite comfortably.