Andy Murray is First British Man in 74 Years to Earn Wimbledon Final

Andy Murray will play in his first Wimbledon final on Sunday. Nowherexg0d | photobucket.com

Andy Murray became the first British man in 74 years to advance to the Wimbledon final on Friday.

Murray has made it to the semi-final at Wimbledon numerous times before, but he’s never been able to make it to the final. Neither has any other British man for 74 years.

Murray had to battle his way to the Wimbledon final this year.

In the round of 16 he had numerous rain delays and kept his calm. Then in the quarter-final he faced David Ferrer and went down a set. He then battled it out with Ferrer for a place in the semi-finals.

On Friday Murray opened up strong against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. Murray went up 3-love quickly before Tsonga started battling back.

Tsonga was not able to comeback in the set and Murray won 6-3.

Murray continued to control the match in the second set and took the set, 6-4.

Once Tsonga had gone down two sets, he called for the trainer.

Tsonga came out in the third set strong,  going up 3-love.

Murray had a weak first service game in the third set and Tsonga was able to get back into the match.

Tsonga took the third set at 6-3.

Tsonga and Murray battled it out in the final set. Murray wanted to end the match at the fourth set and Tsonga wanted to extend the match to another set.

Tsonga looked like he would get his wish when he tied the set up at 5-5.

There was some confusion with the final point of the match.

In Murray’s press conference he said that he thought Tsonga had challenged the call. When he found out there was no call and that the ball was thought out, he challenged the call. The ball was indeed in and with that Murray earned his place in his first Wimbledon final.

Andy Murray		Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
60%	First Serve %	63%
9	Aces	11
2	Double Faults	2
40	Winners	47
12	Unforced Errors	42
4/12	Break Points Won	2/8
13/30	Net Points Won	45/76

Match Time: 2h 47m

Andy Murray	6	6	3	7
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	3	4	6	5

Federer Wins Rematch Against Tsonga

Federer moves on to the semifinals. mexella | photobucket.com

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga has beaten Roger Federer in their last two meetings. One of which was at Wimbledon where he was two sets down.

In a pre-match interview with Derek Cahill, Cahill asked Tsonga what he needed to do to win the match.

“Be passionate and play my game,” Tsonga answered

In Federer’s pre-match interview he said “[It’s] nice to play against [Tsonga]…[he’s] very powerful [and] very talented.”

Tsonga serves to open the match. He takes the lead with a 40-love game.

On Federer’s service game he ties it up at one-all. Then Federer took a commanding lead to 3-1 before Tsonga came back to 2-3.

After 17 minutes of play, the game was suspended because of rain. At first the players stayed on the court under umbrellas, then they were sent to the locker room.

There was an hour and 35 minutes delay before Federer and Tsonga were back on the court.

Tsonga started back up strong taking the score to three-all and then taking the lead to 4-3.

Tsonga started to make errors and Federer was able to take the lead and then the set.

Tsonga struggled with his first serve. Federer was able to attack his second serve making it hard for Tsonga to stay in the match.

Tsonga’s timing was off; he was hitting his forehands behind him.

Federer took the lead of 4-1 then Tsonga started to fight back. He was only able to catch-up to 3-4, and then Federer dominated the set.

Tsonga was not his passionate self during the match on Thursday night.

Tsonga continued to try to fight his way back into the match. His first serve was still struggling, but in the third set he made a 139 mph ace. The fasted Tsonga made for the match.

He also made a 120 mph overhead winner.

The final game of the match went to deuce, with Tsonga not going down without a fight.

Federer will now have a day off before his semifinal against Novak Djokovic.

Roger Federer	6	6	6
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	4	3	3

Roger Federer		Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
72%	First Serve %	53%
5	Aces	5
2	Double Faults	3
29	Winners	17
38	Unforced Errors	34
6/13	Break Points Won	2/3
19/32	Net Points Won	11/19

Match Time: 1h 53m

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