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What to watch out for on Day 11

Artist Federer will need Ashe's guile to combat threat of the power rangers READ MORE

By Mark Hodgkinson
It's Day 11 of The Championships and we've picked out a few highlights.

Roger Federer v Tomas Berdych Head to Head

For all the physical conditioning required to play at Wimbledon, tennis isn't a
cousin of power-lifting or Mr Universe - the strongest or most explosive, the
one with the atomic forehand, doesn't always win.

We saw that in the final of the 1975 Championships when 31-year-old Arthur
Ashe, having devised his game-plan on a napkin the night before,
bamboozled the punchier Jimmy Connors with guile and subtlety. And now
Federer, a 35-year-old father of four, finds himself needing to beat a couple
of power-ballers - first Berdych and then Marin Cilic or Sam Querrey - if he is
to supersede Ashe as the oldest men's Wimbledon singles champion of the
Open era.
ROGER FEDERER
Federer can't clump a forehand as hard as Berdych can. But that doesn't
matter, as his sophisticated, artistic tennis comes with an ultra-aggressive SINGLES RANKING
edge. You don't have to be slamming a tennis ball to be playing attacking
tennis, and Federer hasn't given up a set at The Championships so far as he
closes in on what would be his 11th Wimbledon final.
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DOUBLES
The only member of tennis's Fab Four to survive until the semi-finals, this
year's Australian Open champion hasn't lost a match at the Grand Slams for
12 months (though he missed last year's US Open and also this season's RANKING
Roland Garros). Two more victories and Federer would become the first man
to win Wimbledon eight times, pulling clear of Pete Sampras and William
TOMAS BERDYCH
Renshaw (the first top dog of 19th century lawn tennis), who each have seven
titles. It would be Federer's first Wimbledon title for five years. Victory would
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also take Federer to 19 Grand Slam titles, which would give him a margin of SINGLES RANKING
four majors over Rafael Nadal, who scored his 15th at Roland Garros last
month.

Federer is on a seven-match winning streak against Berdych. But, a note of

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DOUBLES
caution for the Fed-heads; the last time the Swiss played Berdych at
Wimbledon, in the 2010 quarter-finals, it was the Czech who prevailed.
Berdych, whose best Wimbledon result was finishing as the runner-up to
RANKING
Nadal in 2010, and who benefitted from Novak Djokovic's retirement with EVENT
STATISTICS
tennis elbow on Wednesday, hardly represents the tennis youth. He's 31,
almost 32, so if he goes on to win The Championships he would be almost as 198
old as Ashe was in 1975.

Marin Cilic v Sam Querrey RF TB

Whoever wins this match will earn the prize of a first appearance in a
Wimbledon final, as well as the opportunity to become his country's first
champion at the All England Club since the early noughties. Cilic is trying to Sets 14 18
be Croatia's first Wimbledon champion since Goran Ivanisevic in 2001, while played
Querrey's mission is to emulate Sampras, who took the last of his seven titles
in 2000. Querrey, who beat a hobbling Andy Murray in the quarter-finals, is Tie
the first American man to venture this far into a Grand Sam draw since Andy breaks 3 4
Roddick was the runner-up here in 2009. Don't think that, because of played
Murray's injury, Querrey has been given an easy ride through the draw - his
last three matches have been five-setters. Total
134 174
games
This could also go long, if their only previous Wimbledon meeting is to be Winners 180 187
our guide. Playing in the third round of the 2012 Championships, Cilic needed
5 hours and 31 minutes to beat Querrey, taking the final set 17-15. Or, to put Unforced
49 90
that into context, around half the length of John Isner and Nicolas Mahut's errors
first round in 2010. This will be the fifth career meeting for Cilic and Querrey,
and the Croatian has won the first four. Plus, Cilic knows how to handle
Service
himself at the business-end of the Grand Slams. When he took the 2014 US points 283 369
Open title, he won the last three rounds - against Berdych, Federer and Kei won
Nishikori - in straight sets, as he played with a nerveless ease that took New Return
York by surprise.
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or Apple TV, or download the official IOS or Android apps for smartphone Total
and tablet. 454 542
points
1st serves
240 317
in
% 1st
67 64
serves in
Total
51 50
aces
Total
double 6 8
faults
1st serve
points 197 270
won
% 1st
serve
81 86
points
won
% 2nd
Serve
65 58
points
won
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