Top 4 Players in the World to Play Semifinals in Toronto

Something 'bout Canada - last year the top 8 players made the quarters.

Toronto ATP Masters 1000 - Semifinals

1 Rafael Nadal vs 4 Andy Murray (above) - H2H: 8-3

6 Masters 1000's played this year - Rafa's been to the Sf's in all - winning 3.

Andy is the only semifinalist yet to win a title this year.

In fact, this is only Andy's 4th Sf for 2010. Time for a breakthrough?

Rafa won the last time they played - in straights at Wimbledon last month.

Pressure: Andy needs to win today to keep from slipping to #5.

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2 Novak Djokovic vs 3 Roger Federer - H2H: 9-5

Novak won their last match - last Fall in Basel.

They also met once before in Canada - in the final '07, won by Novak.

Sloppy: This is Roger's 6th Sf: 2-3. And this is Novak's 5th Sf: 1-3.

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Quarterfinal Results

1 Rafael Nadal d Philipp Kohlschreiber - 36 63 64

Rafa got the test out of the way... Way to turn it around.

4 Andy Murray d David Nalbandian - 62 62

Murray exstinguished the Nalbandian fire that had flared recently.

3 Roger Federer d 7 Tomas Berdych - 63 57 76(5)

Roger escaped in a thriller. Thanks Maria for letting ESPN go there.

2 Novak Djokovic d Jeremy Chardy - 62 63

Kind of a late start. Kind of not cool. Well, at least there was no heat.

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