Five-time champion and world number one Rafael Nadal had seemed the likeliest to derail Djokovic at Roland Garros but Federer has cutaswathe through his section of the draw, with fellow Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka his latest victim.
Indeed, we cut such aswathe through Wales that if you wished to do so - and why not, for it is a lovely country - you could walk from the south-east corner to the north-western most point and find yourself on Conservative territory all the way.