Roger Federer of Switzerland acknowledges the crowd after defeating James Duckworth Roger Federer cut his time on court to
the bare minimum as he crushed James Dockworth 6-1, 6-1 in 39 minutes
to reach the semi-finals of the Brisbane International on Friday.
Federer won the 998th match of his career as he edges closer to the
magic number of 1,000.
The Swiss is set to become the third player in the Open Era (since
1968) to reach the milestone, joining Jimmy Connors (1,253) and Ivan
Lendl (1,071).
The speed of Federer's hammering of Australian Duckworth was a sharp
contrast to the two hours he took on Thursday to beat another Aussie,
John Millman in his opening match.
Federer dominated with a dozen aces, 24 winners and breaks on six of
eight chances.
The top seed and world number two next plays Grigor Dimitrov, who
defeated Martin Klizan 6-3, 6-4.
The second semi-final will pit US Open finalist Kei Nishikori against
fellow young gun Milos Raonic of Canada. Japan's Nishikori defeated
Aussie Bernard Tomic 6-0, 6-4 while Raonic put out Sam Groth of
Australia 7-6 (7-5), 3-6, 7-6 (7-2) on the back of 15 aces
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