
Roger Federer v Tomas Berdych
Federeris looking forward to booking a berth in the semi-final of Australian Open. He is set ready to face Tomas Berdych.
"I'm looking forward to playing against him. He seems in good shape and I'm happy he's over the back issues that he also had at the end of last year," said Federer, who is targeting a 20th Grand Slam title.
Unseeded Chung Hyeon has already reached the semi-final at a Grand Slam with a dominant straight-sets win over American Tennys Sandgren and will face either defending champion Roger Federer or Tomas Berdych in Friday's semi-final.
Here are match facts:
Head-to-heads: Federer leads 19-6
Fastfacts
Federer: Age - 36; World ranking - 2; Prize money - $111,885,682; Career titles - 95; Grand Slam titles - 19;Australian Openbest - Winner (2004, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2017)
Berdych: Age - 32; World ranking - 20; Prize money - $28,232,533; Career titles - 13; Grand Slam titles - 0;Australian Openbest - Semi-final (2014, 2015)
Path to quarter-final
Federer
1st rd: bt Aljaz Bedene (SLO) 6-3, 6-4, 6-3
2nd rd: bt Jan-Lennard Struff (GER) 6-4, 6-4, 7-6 (7/4)
3rd rd: bt Richard Gasquet (FRA x29) 6-2, 7-5, 6-4
4th rd: bt Marton Fucsovics (HUN) 6-4, 7-6 (7/3), 6-2
Berdych
1st rd: bt Alex de Minaur (AUS) 6-3, 3-6, 6-0, 6-1
2nd rd: bt Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP) 6-3, 2-6, 6-2, 6-3
3rd rd: bt Juan Martin Del Potro (ARG x12) 6-3, 6-3, 6-2
4th rd: bt Fabio Fognini (ITA x25) 6-1, 6-4, 6-4