Australian Open 2010: Day 12 Semi Finals

Day 12 was the day 2 of the semi's. Today it would be either Tsonga or Federer facing Murray (who won the previous day) in the Final on Sunday. There was actually the female doubles final and a mixed double semi before the Roger Federer vs Tsonga match but I didnt really feel like watching either one of those.So, I skipped the first 2 matches and arrived just before the Federer Tsonga match started.

This promised to be a good match up, seeing as Tsonga (yellow) has been playing quite well in the tournament and had just 2 tough back to back 5 set victories in which he displayed how tough he is. Federer............ well Federer is Federer. Lets just leave it at that.







Many would have predicted that this match would end in Federer's victory and it did. However, few if any would have predicted the manner in which he achieved that victory. He simply destroyed Tsonga. I mean absolutely and completely obliterated him. It seemed like Federer could do no wrong and Tsonga could do no right. He was hitting all sorts of winners and when Tsonga tried to make a comeback, he just put him back down again. Final score: Federer victory 6-2, 6-3, 6-2.


Federer dominated Tsonga to such a degree that the match lasted only for 1 hour and 28 minutes and the last set took barely over 30 minutes.


Since the match ended rather quickly, Jim Courier made the interview a bit longer then normal. I have to say that he is one of the more entertaining interviewers that I have seen.