Roger Federer produces a masterclass performance against Andy Murray to progress to Wimbledon final

Roger Federer celebrates his win over Andy Murray in the semifinal

Roger Federer was in imperious form as he beat Andy Murray 7-5, 7-5, 6-4 to reach his 10th Wimbledon final.

Federer had dropped just one game coming into the semifinal, but faced a first break point in the opening game. The No. 2 seed got 8 out of 8 first serves in the first game. He won 76% of first serves in the opening set and got the crucial break of serve in the twelfth game when Murray couldn’t control a Federer backhand on second set point.

It wasn’t looking good for Murray who struggled to make any inroads into Federer’s serve.

Federer started serving again in the second set and held it to love. Murray escaped with a hold saving couple of break points in the fourth game when Federer’s backhand misfired. Federer was holding his serves without nay trouble forcing Murray to serve to stay in the second set at 4-5. The Scot did manage to hold the tenth game of the second set that nearly took 15 minutes to complete saving mulliple set points from 0-40 down.

It wasn’t long before Federer got ahead as he broke Murray’s serve in the twelfth game yet again. Federer hit a superb forehand volley at the end of a long rally to lead two sets to love.

The crowd wanted a five setter and rooted for Murray to make a comeback. It wasn’t to be as Federer never dropped his aggressive style of play. The Swiss maestro hit 56 winners and committed just 11 unforced errors in the match. Murray on the other hand, hit 35 winners to 17 unforced errors.

Murray found himself under pressure yet again when he was trying to stay in the set and this time, the match at 4-5. Couple of ferocious second serve returns gave Federer his first match point which he duly took when Murray hits his forehand wide.

Federer will play Novak Djokovic in the final on Sunday.

Stats on that epic Murray hold: 20 points 2 aces 2 passing shot winners 1 volley winner 3 other winners 8 forced errors 4 unforced errors

— Carl Bialik (@CarlBialik) July 10, 2015