Australian Open: Djokovic joins Federer in the semifinals

The miracle and the metronome… So could be summed up the poster for the Australian Open semi-final between Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic.

If the Swiss suffered a thousand evils against the American Sandgren (in five innings with seven game points saved), the Serb continues his stroll. In the night session, Djokovic only needed three small sets (6-4, 6-3, 7-6 [1]) to extinguish the Canadian Milos Raonic.

The biggest annoyance for the seven-time winner of the tournament was to ask for a medical time-out ... to change his lenses. "I couldn't see much in a few games," he says after drying a few tears in his green tracksuit, flocked KB 8-24 in tribute to his mentor Kobe Bryant. It was nothing tactical. In the first two sets, I did exactly what I wanted to do, I was pretty quiet on my service games. And, in the last one, I played a perfect tie-break. "

Djokovic too strong for Raonic! Serb dominates Canadian in three sets and joins Federer in semi-final 🃏

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Djoko in freewheel

In his five games, the man with 16 Grand Slams conceded only one round against the German Jan-Lennard Struff in the first round. Since then, he has been coasting, and it is difficult to see who could prevent him from winning an eighth title. The march promises to be very high for Federer in the semi-finals in the 50th head-to-head between the two men (26-23 for the world number 2).

"It's my favorite short and I love being there," says Djokovic, who will play his 37th Grand Slam semi-final. I have enormous respect for everything that Roger does. With Rafa (Nadal) , they are my two biggest rivals on a court, and we played so many great games. May the best win… "