Novak Djokovic has ended the Australian Open tennis win streak of Roger Federer with a hard fought straight sets win. Federer was attempting to win three straight Australian Open titles. In 2005 he also failed at the semi final stage.
This time around Federer started well and was serving for the first set at 5-4. […]

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A win for Roger Federer over Russia’s Nikolay Davydenko has setup a final show down against Novak Djokovic. The final score was 7-5, 6-1, 7-5.

The match lasted 2hr 21 minutes. Despite not playing his best tennis Federer got through this match without dropping a set. Davydenko had several chances in the third set to take the match to the fourth set. With Federer serving at 4-5 30-40 Davendenko missed by a matter of inches grabbing the set. He had played a patient point and had the opening down the line. Federer was beaten however the shot was just wide. After this Federer stepped up a gear to close out the match.

In the other US Open tennis men’s semi final Novak Djokovic overcame the heat and a tough opponent in the form of Spain’s David Ferrer. After going down 1-4 in the first set Djokovic stormed back to take the first set 6-4.

Twice in the match Djokovic had to call for the trainer. He appeared to be suffering from the heat. With the final the next day hopefully he is fresh enough to challenge Federer. In today’s match he fought doggedly to overcome his opponent and took the second set 6-4. He then closed out the match 6-3 to reach his first grand slam final.

Federer will be looking to turn around the last result he had against Djokovic. Just a couple of weeks ago Djokovic defeated Federer in the final of the Montreal Master’s series final. In that tournament the young Serbian player defeated Roddick, Nadal and Federer in consecutive matches.

Djokovic will be lining up against Federer who will be playing in his 10th consecutive grand slam final. The final is the second time the two players have met in a grand slam. Earlier this year Federer defeated Djokovic in straight sets at the Australian Open. On that occasion it was a round of 16 matchup.

If Federer can win the US Open final he will claim his fourth consecutive crown and grand slam tournament win number 12.

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Super Saturday is normally what we see at the US Open. This is the day that the men’s semis and the women’s final are played on Centre Court.

Today at Wimbledon we witness the men’s semis and the women’s final. The only difference is that one of the men’s matches is being played on court 1.

The number 1 seed, Roger Federer takes on Frenchman Richard Gasquet. As I write this post Federer has just taken a two set lead. The four time defending champion took the first set 7-5 and followed this up 6-3. Unless Gasquet can pull something out of his hat it looks as though Federer will have a shot at matching the great Bjorn Borg’s 5 consecutive Wimbledon titles.

Meanwhile in the other semi the young Serbian Novak Djokovic got off to a good start against world number 2 Rafael Nadal taking the first set 6-3. Nadal showed he was not giving up easily and hit back taking the second set 6-1. Djokovic must surely be feeling the effects of two marathon matches in the previous rounds.

It is looking likely that there will be a repeat of the Wimbledon tennis final from last year. Last year Federer was too good for Nadal winning the match 6-0 7-6(5) 7-6(2) 6-3.

At the conclusion of the Federer-Gasquet match on centre court we will see the Women’s final between former 3 time Wimbledon champion Venus Williams and surprise finalist Marion Bartoli.

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