In a match that lasted close to 4 hours, Swiss maestro held upper hand at the end defeating the Serbian 7-6, 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 to reach the finals of the Roland Garros.
One could see the old Roger back and the Roger forehand was flowing with ease. He produced a performance from top draw and one to remember for a long long time. Clay has not been his forte but his performance never made one feel like so.
Semi- Final at Roland Garros between Roger Federer (3) vs Novak Djokovic (2) was always going to be a titanic match and it proved out to be one with class of short making from both players. Few games went as far as 6-7 duece each.
Roger had not been in best of form lately and on the other hand Novak was on a 42 match unbeaten run.
Fireworks began from the first set as both players started to unleash their weapons, it went into tie-break and Roger won the hard fought set 7/6(7-5).
Roger then went to race past his counter part winning second set with ease 6/3. The Serbian then came back strongly in the third set to get better of Roger winning third set with same score. Fourth set saw both players holding their serves and it also went into tie break which ended in favour of the swiss.
It’s a dream final set now, Roger Federer meets Rafael Nadal in the finals of the grand slam
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