Wimbledon 2010: Andy Murray Storms into Semi-final Clash with Rafael Nadal

July 1, 2010 by: Sport News

When Roger Federer had already been raised in an incredible day on Centre Court when Andy Murray was saved by ‘the shot that never existed. “

With Murray on the ground and the score 5-5 in the second set tie-break, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga decided to leave a looping shot that gently beside him and gently landed on the baseline. Until then, ‘Big Jo had been smacking everything that came near him.

So Federer is out, Murray is still in, and Scotland, will appear tomorrow in the second semifinal of Wimbledon, when he will play Rafael Nadal, the world No 1 and a former champion.

Federer went silent, Murray was bouncing on the grass, at one stage pumping his arm toward the floor in the style of a man trying to start a chainsaw.

Federer’s aura of infallibility at the All England Club? It is a thing of the past, to the hill in Wimbledon Village, with a pint in the dog and the fox. Federer lost in the quarter-final to Tomas Berdych, and are now in the post-Federer here.

Murray has played in two Grand Slam finals – the 2008 U.S. Open and this season: Open from Australia – and both times he lost in straight sets to Federer, a man who thinks the best player of all time.

If Murray can reach a slam final third, if he can beat Nadal and become the first Briton to play for the title since Bunny ‘Henry Austin in 1938, Federer is not going to wait for him. Serbian Novak Djokovic will or Berdych, none of whom has played in a Wimbledon final.

Here was the extraordinary figure of Federer on Centre Court abused. For the first time since 2002, Federer will not appear on the second Sunday. A lack of grip by the neck and Federer hitting the backstop him below the Royal Box, Berdych could not have done more to destabilize and intimidate, to intimidate the champion.

And what’s worse for Federer, who Monday morning to be ranked in the top two for the first time since 2003, down from Nadal and Djokovic. Federer was the champion of Wimbledon, and now it’s quarter-finalist at Wimbledon and the world is 3-to-be.

Federer can still win the Gold Cup Challenge Wimbledon next summer or sometime in the future to catch up with Pete Sampras in a record seven titles, but never going to dominate the new turf. In 2008, he lost to Nadal, but that was over five sets, in the dark, in a game widely regarded as the greatest of all time. This time, Federer lost in four sets to world No. 13.

Every fortnight, Federer has been playing below their best gold standard and get away with it. On the first day, dropped the first two sets against a nobody in Colombia and in the second round he lost a set to a Serbian qualifier.

Federer said he had been carrying an injury. By the time it was Berdych, Federer was out of Wimbledon with his defeat than eight years.

Federer has not been himself since he beat Murray in the Australia Open final in January to win his 16th Grand Slam title. From Melbourne, Federer has not won another title at any level. That is partly due to lung infection he suffered shortly after the Aussie Open. But you would think that Federer had reverted to Federer at Wimbledon. That did not happen.

When Federer lost to Robin Soderling in the quarterfinals at Roland Garros, was the first time in six years that has failed to reach the semifinals of a Slam. In the next blow, reaching the last four was again beyond it.

Federer has suggested he wants to continue playing for many more years, so they can show their twin daughters, born last summer, what you can do with a racket. However, many more of these quarter-final defeats in the slams, and Federer could begin to think seriously about the R-word retirement.

Maybe it will be Murray to win the first title of the post-Federer. But we are getting ahead of ourselves. First, Murray has to beat Nadal, who is unbeaten in 12 matches on the grass after losing tournament last summer due to problems with both knees.

They met in the quarterfinals of the tournament in 2008, when Nadal was slapped in straight sets. Nadal has won seven of their last 10 games, while Murray won his last, in the quarter-final in Australia this year.

There are, as always happens when Murray plays here, the whole story to think about. There has been a British champion since Fred Perry in 1936, and have to go back almost as far as a finalist in Britain here.

In the past 70-odd years, the British players have reached the semifinals of Wimbledon, is to go beyond what has been problematic for players of origin. British men are on a run of nine defeats in the semifinals of Wimbledon. Mike Sangster lost one, Roger Taylor missed three, lost four Tim Henman and Murray lost one last summer when he was stopped by a superb performance from Andy Roddick. Before you can emulate Fred, you first have to emulate Bunny.

You can not have been easy to move to the center court shortly after the defeat of Federer. Tsonga became the first player in this tournament to have a set of Murray. And then he took 5-4 in the second set tie-break, with two points on serve to come. He lost the first, put a volley into the net. And then, at 5-5, thought the shot of Murray would go over and let it fly. It bounced in. In the next section, when Tsonga of forehand went long, Murray made the holding of the saw.

After that, the only thing that went wrong for him was when a ball boy gave him another drink. But tennis was just as he had wished. Accelerated towards its fourth coup semi-final.

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