We know the two combatants in the Wimbledon final for the women and on Friday afternoon we will find out which two men will play out for the title at SW19 when the men’s semi-finals are played out on Centre Court.
Few would have successfully predicted the semi-final line up that we have with Rafael Nadal, Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic all casualties this week already. That leaves the odds makers suggesting the title is Roger Federer’s to lose. Time will tell on that score.
Day 10 Recap
We had a winner and a loser on Thursday. We were correct in thinking that Garbine Muguruza would fly through the first set of her match with the nervous Magdalena Rybarikova but unfortunately Venus Williams was far too good for Jo Konta so the overs in that match didn’t come in. We now know the ladies final on Saturday will be between Muguruza and Venus.
Sam Querrey vs Marin Cilic
The opening semi-final is the battle of the five set men out on Centre Court as Sam Querrey takes on Marin Cilic. This will be the fifth time these two have met with Cilic having won the previous four matches so he’ll be confident of making a first Wimbledon final.
Querrey battled past Andy Murray in five sets in the quarter finals to make his first semi of a Grand Slam. It remains to be seen whether he is nervous but he could do without being because Cilic is playing some brilliant tennis at the minute.
I’m effectively on Cilic at 9/1 in this match having backed him to win the tournament outright and I’m happy to let that run. I would take the overs in games in a normal match between these two that I wasn’t involved in but I sense Querrey may be nervous so I wouldn’t be all that surprised if this is more comfortable for the Croat than it might look on paper.
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Roger Federer vs Tomas Berdych
The second semi-final is being billed as the match before the Roger Federer coronation but Tomas Berdych will have other ideas on that and so he should because he is playing some really good tennis in this tournament.
The problem Berdych has going into this match is that very good doesn’t cut the mustard against Federer at the minute. Grigor Dimitrov didn’t do much wrong in the last 16 and got wiped out and Raonic soon realised he had no answer to the brilliance at the other end.
Berdych is hitting the ball hard and he is serving well but he is going to be under so much pressure here. Federer will get more balls back and his own shots will move Berdych around with spin and accuracy. I don’t see the Czech being able to handle Federer here so under 35.5 games looks the way to go.
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