{"id":12809,"date":"2014-02-28T04:22:01","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T04:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/roger-federer-to-meet-novak-djokovic-in-dubai\/"},"modified":"2014-02-28T04:21:28","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T04:21:28","slug":"roger-federer-to-meet-novak-djokovic-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/roger-federer-to-meet-novak-djokovic-in-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Federer to Meet Novak Djokovic in Dubai Semi-Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"

{{Roger Federer will play world number two Novak Djokovic in the semi-finals of the Dubai Tennis Championships after beating Lukas Rosol in straight sets.}}<\/p>\n

Fourth seed Federer beat Rosol of the Czech Republic 6-2 6-2 and will face Djokovic on Friday.<\/p>\n

The Serb advanced to the last four after Russia’s Mikhail Youzhny withdrew through illness.<\/p>\n

Philipp Kohlschreiber plays Tomas Berdych in the second semi-final.<\/p>\n

Federer recovered from an early deficit against the sixth seed to win 12 of the final 14 games, completing victory in only 58 minutes.<\/p>\n

Federer lost his opening service game for the fourth successive set to fall 2-0 behind, but he broke back to love and won six games in a row to take the set.<\/p>\n

Federer saved a break point to avoid losing his first service game in the second set, but then broke Rosol twice more to complete a routine success.<\/p>\n

Returning to the tour more than five weeks since the loss of his Australian Open title, Djokovic goes into the meeting with Switzerland’s Federer with a little more than two hours court time from his two matches in Dubai.<\/p>\n

Earlier on Thursday, Germany’s Kohlschreiber beat Tunisia’s Malek Jaziri 6-2 6-3 for his 300th win of his career, and Berdych, of the Czech Republic, beat France’s Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-4 6-3.<\/p>\n

Kohlschreiber said: “It’s always great to win many matches on the tour, especially a few rounds in a row. I think I produced a very solid and good performance today. It’s great that I have 300 victories under my belt.”<\/p>\n

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