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The eighth champion Roger Federer was sensibly knocked out of Wimbledon by South African giant Kevin Anderson while Rafael Nadal defeated Juan Martin del Potro in a Center Court epic and will meet Novak Djokovic in the semi-finals.
Federer missed a point match and continued to lose a thriller Court One, 2-6 6-7 (5/7) 7-5 6-4 13-11 as Anderson Anderson, 32, became the first South African in the semifinals of Wimbledon since Kevin Curren in 1983. It was a clbadic four hours and 13 minutes.
"Twice I did my best to keep beating, beat Roger Federer here at Wimbledon will be a memory of which I remember particularly" I told myself to keep believing, he says. " I said today that it would be my day. "
This was Federer's first appearance at the All England club since defeating Sergiy Stakhovsky in 2013.
"Sometimes you do not feel well, and you do your best." I did not see it coming, "says Federer.
" I've had moments when I was Great, I had the impression of reading his service, other times when I do not know where the heck I was moving. "
The eighth seed, Anderson, will face the ninth seeded American John Isner Friday at the final on Sunday
Dvokovic v / s Nadal
The triple champion Novak Djokovic has reached his first Semifinal Majors in over two years defeating Japanese Kei Nishikori 6-3 3-6 6-2 6-2
The 12-time Slam champion will face his former rival and world number-one Nadal who has seen Del Potro 7-5 6-7 (7/9) 4-6 6-4 6-4 after four hours and 48 minutes on the center court to reach his sixth semifinal at Wimbledon and 28th on the majors.
For the only second win at Wimbledon, Federer was beaten after taking a two-point lead, his previous loss to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the quarterfinals in 2011.
The 20-time Grand Slam champion seemed to be moving towards his fifth consecutive semifinal of Wimbledon after taking the first two sets.
This first salvo gave Federer 34 successive sets won at Wimbledon, equal He was playing his own record between 2005 and 2006.
But playing Court One for the first time in three years, Federer was unusually inclined to make mistakes. Anderson had not managed a single Federer set in the last four meetings.
Yet once he's finished Federer's series of pbades for 85 consecutive games – a series that goes back to last year's semifinal – Anderson's confidence
On this occasion, he dominated 16-14 in the Wimbledon final against Andy Roddick in 2009.
But this time Federer cracked by signing his first double fault at 11-11 in The goal of giving Anderson the crucial break that allowed the Swiss of
The win yesterday allowed Nadal to win his 11th win in 16 games against fifth seed, Del Potro, while the only one in the game was the winner. Spanish remained in the running for an 18th Grand Slam title. "19659002" there were incredible points, "said 2008 and 2010 Nadal champion.
" Sorry for Juan Martin, he is an opponent and an incredible player. In a way, he deserves to win too. "
" Anything could have happened, so it's a great achievement for me to reach the semi-finals at Wimbledon. "
" In the last set there was a Djokovic, who leads his rivalry face-to-face with Nadal 26-25, reached his eighth semifinal of Wimbledon and his 32nd place at Wimbledon. the majors after a tumultuous clash between the center and Nishikori
It will be the first Serbian semifinal of 31 years to a Slam since the Open of France 2016, when he finished the Grand Slam career.
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The 12-time major winner prevailed despite two code violations and accusing referee Carlos Ramos of" double standards. "
" I think the first warning was useless, "said Djokovic in the second set to harpoon his racket in the yard.
" This did not hurt the grbad. Kei did the same thing in the fourth set but was not warned.
"The referee said that he had not seen it, I do not think it's right but that's what it is." Despite his anger – and a time violation in the fourth set – Djokovic, the 12th seed, has still beaten 10 of the last 12 games.
Isner, 9th seeded, made the semifinal -7 (5/7) 7-6 (9/7) 6-4 6-3 win over the 2016 finalist Raonic.
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