wimbledon semi finals

wimbledon semi finals

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Tommy Haas set the tone early with his serve, and he kept his game in tune long enough to upset No. 4 Novak Djokovic and reach the Wimbledon semifinals for the first time.

Now comes the toughest test of all at the All England Club: a matchup against five-time champion Roger Federer.Haas, at 31 the oldest man in the quarterfinals of this year's tournament, lost only five points on serve in the first set against Djokovic and finished the 7-5, 7-6 (6), 4-6, 6-3 win Wednesday on Court 1 with 18 aces.I served extremely well and didn't really give him much of a rhythm," said Haas, a three-time Australian Open semifinalist. "He never really got a groove on returning well to maybe get some confidence or break me."

But after serving out the first set, Haas stumbled a bit while trying to serve out the second as Djokovic won all four points in the last game to force a tiebreaker. And Djokovic soon held three set points.All of a sudden I lost four points in a row on my serve, which before I've always constantly held serve pretty easily," Haas said. "Next thing you know, I'm down in the tiebreak 3-6. Then I just yelled at myself at 3-6, basically, 'Wake up.