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Ana Ivanovic had to be tired for this match -- she had played two and three-quarter hours the evening before. She had perhaps been sick. And she was facing Serena Williams on an American hardcourt.
Roger Federer took care of Milos Raonic 6-2, 6-3 in the semifinals of the Western & Southern Open on Saturday night. Federer, who made similarly short 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 work of Raonic in the Wimbledon semis, needed just one hour and eight minutes to set up a final showdown against David Ferrer.
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For the sixth time in their six career meetings, Milos Raonic (Thornhill, ON) was defeated by the great Roger Federer. The Swiss Maestro defeated Raonic 6-2, 6-3 in the semifinals of the Western and Southern Open on Saturday night in Cincinnati, Ohio. / Pour une sixième fois consécutive, Milos Raonic (Thornhill, ON) a dû s’avouer vaincu face à Roger Federer.
This was a match of rather wild momentum swings. The first two swings are obvious, but in the third set, Serena Williams built a 5-2 lead, then almost let it slip away. That leaves Caroline Wozniacki at #11, and with no chance to rise above that at New Haven.
Check out these EPA photos of Roger Federer at the Western & Southern Open.
Click here to check out the draws and order of play from the Western & Southern Open.
What a difference a year makes. In 2013, Roger Federer lost in the second round of Wimbledon, got unceremoniously bounced out of two clay-court events, then lost to nemesis Rafael Nadal in the Cincinnati quarterfinals. One summer later, Federer finished runner-up at Wimbledon and the Rogers Cup and he is now through to the Cincinnati semifinals.
Going into this, we couldn't help but think that this was a contest to see which of these two had slipped more from his prime. It was, obviously, Murray, who will not rise above #9 and therefore will need a withdrawal by Rafael Nadal or someone if he is to earn the #8 U. S. Open seed.
Novak Djokovic's hard-court struggles continued on Thursday with a 7-6(6), 7-5 loss to Tommy Robredo in the third round of the Western & Southern Open. Djokovic is now a modest 2-2 since winning Wimbledon, having previously lost to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga at the same stage of last week's Rogers Cup.
Click here to check out the draws and order of play from the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati.
John Isner reached the Western & Southern Open final last summer, but there will be no repeat performance in 2014. In fact, no American man will play for the title this time around. That much was guaranteed on Thursday, when the host nation's last two hopes in Isner and Steve Johnson both went down in third-set tiebreakers.
Maybe Novak Djokovic suffered from one too many headlines. This is the one Masters event he has never won, so naturally everyone was wondering if he could win it this year.
Roger Federer's little lapse in the second set meant that he had to spend more than two hours on the court -- hardly what he wanted after his long week in Toronto. But he survived to keep his lead on Stanislas Wawrinka in the contest for #3.
The Thursday, August 14 Day Session (Session 10) is completely sold out and the Western & Southern Open is at tournament capacity for that session. No Center Court, Grandstand or Grounds Pass tickets remain.
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