Ricky,
I went to watch the semi-final in Cincinnati and I kind of felt that Federer was not troubled much by Murray anymore. Hope it is permanent feeling. :)

He should get it in straight sets!
I hope they will meet again, as Federer expects, at final. (it seems unlikely though)

RF has not been consistent or confident. he's gonna need both, plus his first serves, which have been very inconsistent. and who comes out more motivated and fired up? in front of his home crowd...

this match will go to murray for sure, in 3.

surprise us, roger. c'mon federer!

Hello zoey! mwah! No doubt Roger will take it! He is the ONE! LOL the FED is going to dictate from the get go. Roger is ON to Murray right now, it would have to take a really "off" FED to lose this one. No doubt it will be a good match though, and Murray will have his chances... May the best man of the day WIN! :) C'MON FED! Go for it! :)

fed seems determine to better their H2H but murray can sometimes be awkward for some of the top players when he's on song. maybe fed will get revenge for what happened in shanghai last year... hope the crowd gets a good match.

Federer in 3, and I really think it will feature very high quality tennis.

This one is not tough to call ....if Fed's serve is on and he makes those winners with low UE's ...it really does not matter how murray plays as he is just going to watch those forehands pass him by . Its all up to Fed's consistency ...
Murray's game has the ability to annoy anyone playing against him , but its just not effective if his opponent is playing well . i think the FedExpress should be up for this one .

p.s: whatever happen to maxi and malt ....torres also seems to be missing these days .

C'MON !!

Colleen - I was courtside for that match in Cincinnati. While Fed controlled it throughout, Murray had chances in the second set and even had set points. But he finally double-faulted on match point at 9-10 in the tiebreaker.

Just because muzz has a defensive style, it doesn't mean he CAN'T play attacking tennis when he wants. Don't be surprised if his tactics surprise us all again and takes the game to Fed. If he does this and his serve's on, muzz can take this one in 2 :) Come on muzz!!

Murray is the most dangerous against Federer, i hate thier matches so much,this one is going to be hard to watch and Federer was never convincing against him in the deciding sets so it is going to be tough to expect anything,and who knows if thier last meeting had to be through third set what would've happened?
hope he can do well

hello yourself, sky! a big kiss and cyber hugs right back to you! xxoo. i hope you and fedexfan are right and i'm wrong. just going on what i have watched recently - but we all know, if fed comes out to win with his A game, he wins. big "if" these days, tho.

but what a ride, right? who else won 2 grand slams this year? to me, fed deserves to end the year at #1. we'll see. it'll be close.

fedexfan- i think maxi is madmax on tennisx. too much nastiness for her here in general. and malt will be back by ao, if not sooner. torres is around, just not so much.

c'mon feddy!

"who else won 2 grand slams this year? "

Why, Juan Rafael DelNadaltro, of course!

LOL SenorPlaid! Go FED go!!! the FED is due for a HOT, RIGHT ON, KICK IN YOUR BUTT MATCH, Murray is next... :) Just do it Rog.

Seriously I freak out when Roger plays Mandy. Even more compared to when he plays Rafa. I don't know why. But I'm dragging myself out of bed at 8AM after a friggin' NIGHT SHIFT to watch this so I hope for solid tennis, and for Roger to win :)

5:2 for Andy....exFed is pathetic...1 winner and 12 unforced errors...TWELVE...
His forhand is history...

Murray's serve is just incredible when he needs it today. Hope Federer could find a groove.

The match is even now and it's for anybody to get. Roger had an incredible 19 winners to 11 unfirced errors in the second set. Final set to go.

That 2nd set was full of magic by the Fed.

Those 19 winners were genius shotmaking. When Fed is in full flow like that, i can just sit and watch in AWE.

And Roger wins it, a fully deserved victory, but i don't know what happened in the third set due to errors in the satellite :@:@. Now the pressure of retaining his position as World no.1 is relieved.

yahoooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!! the FED is BRILLIANT!!! Way to go Rog! Next... :)

A real anti-climax in the end. Murray's serve basically collapsed in the second set ... and then got worse in the third. The stats explain the final result: 8 DFs for muzz, to fed's 1 ... 46% first serves in for muzz, to fed's 64%. Nobody beats fed with stats like that.

What collosal choke, meltdawn, selfdestruct...
How many Verdascos play in A group???
But OK...win is win...Roge goes on...

Thought I had to go back to the hospital as a patient suffering from a heart attack for most of that match actually - 1st set (crap tennis from Fed admittedly) and 2nd set.

But I agree with alex - was a bit anti-climatic towards the end. Roger played well enough in the 3rd set but Murray just sort of went away and things started going wrong for him even though he had a few good shots and was trying to save his serve at matchpoint. His DFs are atrocious and I may be wrong but isn't Murray usually a good server?

Murray really served very well for a set and a half. He compensated the DFs percentage by more aces. But as soon as Roger found a crack in his serve in the second set it was never the same.

I dont think it was a choke, Muzza was not in a winning position in the 3rd set.

Muzza must have thought b4 the match he could just toy Fed around with different pace and just return back balls.

Fed upped the tempo at the 2nd and 3rd set and Muzza was just brought out of his comfort zone.

Those drop shots were added to Fed's magicbook this year to solve the baseliner problem which has become a tactical trend nowadays.

the FED is MAGIC! Seeing it is believing it! Murray could have played better... A WIN is a WIN! Go FED go! :)

I totally agree TORRES9: Murray was out of this confort zone and i dnt knw if u seen it but lookin at his face u can tell. And Roger serve amazingly 2th and 3th set THANKFULLY.

the FED by nature is a GRAND SLAM baby/monster, but we have to hand it to him, he is capable of WINNING at some of those other events too.

great play by fed, i thought after 1st set he was going down, but he turned the things around in a style.