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Roger Federer was at his absolute vintage best as he defeated Andy Murray 7-5, 7-5, 6-4 in 2 hours and 7 minutes to reach his 10th Wimbledon final.

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As Federer stated in his press conference, this probably was one of the best matches of his career.

His serving was immaculate, his baseline play was ferocious, his returns were crispy and his net play was Godly.

1st Set

Andy Murray won the toss and decided to receive and had a break-point in the opening game. That was actually the only break-point that Federer faced throughout the match.

There were no break of serves for the first 11 games. Federer got two break points in the 12th game, he converted his 2nd set point to win the 1st set 7-5.

Here are the 1st set stats -----

2nd Set

The Swiss maestro kept on winning his service games comfortably, while Murray looked in problem as Federer consistently pressurised Murray's service.

Federer had 5 break points (set points) in the 10th game, which perhaps was the most dramatic game of the match. Murray managed to hold on in a game which lasted 15 minutes.

But, Federer managed to break Murray's service in the 12th game to win the 2nd set 7-5.

Here are the set stats ----

As the stats will show, Federer was the clear favorite and Murray's chances of making a come-back looked bleak ----

3rd SET

The 3rd set was no different. Federer once again was flawless in his serving. Once again, the Swiss maestro broke Murray's service in the 10th game to win the match in the 10th game.

Here are the match stats -----

The final against Djokovic will be Federer's 10th Wimbledon, 26th major, 131st singles finale.

This will be the first time after 7 years (2006/07/08- Federer vs Nadal), when two same men will compete vs each other in the Wimbledon final. Overall, 8th time in the open era.

& This will just be the 2nd time in this millennium when two former Wimbledon champions will face each other in the Wimbledon finale...

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Roger Federer schooled Roberto Bautista Agut 6-2, 6-2, 6-3 in an hour and 25 minutes to reach the Quarter-finals of Wimbledon for a record 13th time.

Federer will play Gilles Simon in the quarter-finals on Wednesday.

Federer was flaw-less through out the match. His movement, net play, serve was A plus. The Spaniard looked competitive only for the first four games.

The Swiss maestro broke Roberto's service in the 5th and 7th game to comfortably win the first set 6-2 in just 19 minutes. The second set was no different, Federer got the early break and comfortably closed out the 2nd set 6-2.

One break was enough in the third set as Federer wrapped up the set 6-3.

Federer during the course of the 5th game of the third set (his 3rd service game of the 3rd set) completed a rare feat of having won 100 consecutive service games. Federer hasn't been broken through out Wimbledon, the last time his service got broken was in the 1st Round at Halle vs Philipp Kohlschreiber.

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Roger Federer started his quest for a record 8th Wimbledon title with a comfortable routine win over Damir Džumhur 6-1, 6-3, 6-3 in an hour and 7 minutes to reach the Round-2 of Wimbledon for the 13th successive year.

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This was just the 5th time (1previosuly 999, 2000, 2011, 2014) in Roger Federer's 16 appearances at Wimbledon, when he played his 1st Round match on Tuesday, else, all other years, he's played his opening round match on Monday.

Wimbledon is Federer's 63rd consecutive major & overall his 65th major. No other Tennis player (male or female) has played in more consecutive majors/grand slams than Federer.

Before Wimbledon, Federer shared the record with Ai Sugiyama (who appeared in 62 majors). While, Wayne Ferreira appeared in 56 consecutive majors followed by Stefan Edberg who appeared in 54 consecutive majors. 

Federer didn't face any break points on his service. He broke Džumhur's service twice in the first set, once in the second set and twice again in the 3rd set to comfortably win the match in an hour and 7 minutes.

This was Roger Federer's 3rd fastest match win at Wimbledon & overall, his 4th fastest match win at majors (spread across all 286 major matches that he has won excluding forfeits/ retirement of his opponents).

With this win, Federer crossed the 91 million USD prize money mark.

Federer's 2nd round opponent will be Sam Querrey & his 2nd round match will be on Thursday.

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Roger Federer became the 3rd man in the ATP Open Era to win a tournament 8 times as he overcame a stiff resistance from Andreas Seppi 7-6 (1), 6-4 in 1 hour & 42 minutes to win the Gerry Weber Open for a record 8th time.

AP Photo/Martin Meissner. Federer celebrating after winning his 8th title at Halle, 15th title on grass, 86th career and 4th title of 2015.

Roger Federer is now the 3rd guy in the ATP Open Era (after Rafa Nadal - 9 Roland Garros, 8 Monte Carlo & Barcelona & Guillermo Vilas - 8 Buenos Aires titles) to win a single tournament 8 or more times.

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1st Set

Seppi started from where he left in that Australian Open 3rd round match. He was very agressive and even had 2 set-points in the 10th game but the Swiss maestro saved those with two aces. Seppi's service too was top notch and he didn't face a single break point in the entire 1st set.

Federer's 1st service came to his rescue when ever he was in slight trouble. Federer was flaw-less once again in the tie-breaker. He won the Tie-breaker 7-1. This was his 6th successful at this year's Gerry Weber Open.

Overall, this was Federer's 26th successful tie-breaker (out of 35 Tie-Breaker played) since he turned 33 on August 8th, 2014.

& this was his 38th successful tie-breaker out of the total of 64 TB's that he has played in 130 finals so far.

Here are the first set stats ----

2nd Set

As these stats clearly show you, Federer wins almost 87% of the finals after winning the 1st set. Federer played a much better 2nd set. Seppi though was very competitive for the first 7 games. He saved three break points in the 8th game. But, relentless pressure from Federer & the pressure of serving to stay in the match was too much as Federer ended the match with an overhead smash to clinch his 8th title at Halle, 86th career singles title.

Here's the video recording of the match point ------------

Video credit: Oliver Dirksen

Here are the full match stats -----

With this title, Halle became the tournament where in Federer has his most number of titles wins with 8 titles.

Roger Federer has won 7 times (Wimbledon and Dubai Open/ Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships).

The next in the line are Swiss Indoors, ATP World Tour Final showdown & Cincinnati Masters- which Roger Federer has won 6 times.

This will be the 4th time in Roger Federer's career when he's heading to Wimbledon (previous 3: 2003, 2004 & 2005) with at least one title win on all three surfaces. (Clay, Hard and Grass court).

2015 is now the 12th year in the last 13 years (with the exception of 2013), where in Roger Federer has won 4 or more titles

Next up is Wimbledon starting from 29th June, 2015. This will be the 2nd time in Roger Federer's career when he will be the #2 seed. The last time, he was the #2 seed (2009), he went on to win the championships.

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Roger Federer became the first man in the ATP Open Era to record 50 match wins at 3 ATP Tour events (Halle, Basel, Indian Wells) as he overcame a dogged serving resistance from Dr. Ivo Karlovic 7-6 (3), 7-6(4) in an hour and 28 minutes to reach his 10th successive final at Gery Webber Open.

Overall, Halle is now the 7th event where in Roger Federer has won 50 or more matches.

As expected there were no break of serves in both the sets. In the first set, Karlovic had a couple of deuce on Federer's service, but Federer was up to the task & it was tie-breaker time.

Before the start of this match, Federer had won 13 of the 16 tie-breakers.

Federer comfortably won the tie-breaker 7-3. Here are the first set stats -----

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The second set was no different, just that Karlovic had one break point. Karlovic during the course of the 2nd set (his 20th ace of the match) served his 114th ace of the tournament.

With this, Karlovic bettered his own record of 113 aces that he set in February 2007 at San Jose.

How ever, the most aces record in a best of three setter tournament still lies with John Isner, he set that record in 2007 Washington (144 aces).

Most aces in a best of 3 setter tournament :

1) John Isner - 2007 Washinton 144 aces

2) Ivo Karlovic - 2015 Halle 114 aces

 3) Ivo Karlovic - 2007 San Jose 113 aces

Most aces in a best of 5 setter tournament (major/ grand slam tournament) :

1) Goran Ivanisevic - 2001 Wimbledon : 212 aces

 2) Goran Ivanisevic - 1992 Wimbledon : 202 aces

 3) Goran Ivanisevic - 1998 Wimbledon : 184 aces

 4) Mark Philippoussis - 2003 Wimbledon : 178 aces

 5) Goran Ivanisevic - 1994 Wimbledon :  167 aces

 6) Goran Ivanisevic -1995 Wimbledon : 166 aces

 7) Pete Sampras - 2002 US Open : 144 aces

Federer won the tie-breaker 7-4 & with this reached his 10th final at Halle, overall his 130th singles final.

Here are the overall match stats -----

2015 is now the 12th year in the last 13 years (with the exception of 2013), where in Roger Federer has reached the finals of 6 or more tournaments in a year.

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