Federer crushes Soderling

Swiss advances to semi-final date with Djokovic

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Federer crushes Soderling

Return: Federer bandwagon gathered pace in New York

You can wake me up at two in the morning or four in the morning and I can hit serves.

Roger Federer
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Former champion Roger Federer exacted a ruthless revenge on Robin Soderling to reach the semi-final of the US Open.

Soderling's victory over Federer at the French Open earlier in the year ended the Swiss maestro's run of 23 straight appearances in the last four at the grand slams.

But it was normal service resumed in New York as second seed Federer, looking to regain the title he lost to Juan Martin del Potro in last year's final, cruised to a 6-4 6-4 7-5 success.

The world number two made light of windy conditions to serve up a treat for his fans, including 18 aces.

Federer's seventh consecutive US Open semi-final will be against third seed Novak Djokovic, the fourth year in a row the pair have met in the tournament.

"I've practised my serve a whole lot my whole career, if I can't serve in the wind I've got a problem!'' joked Federer, who has yet to drop a set in the championships.

"You can wake me up at two in the morning or four in the morning and I can hit serves."

Sublime

Federer certainly needed to serve himself out of trouble in the first set, saving a total of four break points before converting his only one of the set with a sublime drop shot.

Soderling threatened to get back into the match in the second set when he recovered an early break to level at 2-2, but then promptly surrendered his serve in the next game after missing an easy smash when 40-0 up.

The Swede served for the third set at 5-3 but was again broken straight back and Federer moved in for the kill.

Federer, a 16-time grand slam winner including five US Open titles, has won all three previous contests against next opponent Djokovic at Flushing Meadows - in the 2007 final and in the semi-finals of 2008 and 2009.

"He's been playing great after a hiccup in the first round, he's a great player," Federer said of the Serb, against whom he leads the career head-to-head 10-5.

"We just played each other in Toronto and I got lucky to get through that one there and he's obviously looking for the big breakthrough at the US Open so it's going to be a tough one.''

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Ibrahim Tholley says...

Roger aka ''The Federation'' as i call him is just simple the best. I have always foolowed him since the comment made by Sampras that his the guy to watch. Now you are the man. However, needs to oovercome that metal strain of having rafa edging him. Has become too consisitent in that situation. I vote for Fed to win...

Posted 15:58 9th September 2010
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