Two-time champion Roger Federer dominated Feliciano Lopez 6-3, 6-4 at the Toronto Masters to reach the 120th final of his career on Saturday.
The Swiss second seed and two-time champion in Canada, will take on Jo-Wilfried Tsonga after the Frenchman defeated Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov 6-4, 6-3.
Tsonga had lost to Federer in a pair of 2011 finals but has rediscovered the spark in his game after a series of 2013 injuries. The Frenchman will bid for his 11th trophy while Federer takes aim at his 80th.
“I think I served well, I was aggressive, and I was able to really play the way I wanted to play tonight. I’m very happy,” said the Swiss winner.
I think I served well, I was aggressive, and I was able to really play the way I wanted to play tonight. I’m very happy.
Tsonga held off the eighth-ranked Dimitrov, one of the new wave of fast-rising potential stars of the game, taking slightly less than 90 minutes to advance.
At Montreal… Venus beat Serena in an all-Williams semi-final in the Rogers Cup. Venus topped Serena 6-7 (2), 6-2, 6-3 on Saturday in the hard-court event for her first victory over her sister since 2009 in Dubai.
In the second semi-final, third-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska beat Ekaterina Makarova 7-6 (1), 7-6 (3).
Sania-Cara set up title clash with Errani-Vinci Sania Mirza and Cara Black survived a thriller in the semi-finals as they carved out a hard-earned 7-6(3) 3-6 13-11 victory to set up a Rogers Cup doubles final against top-seeded Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci at Montreal.
The fourth seeded Indo-Zimbabwean pair knocked out the second seeded Hsieh Su-wei of Chinese Taipei and China’s Peng Shuai in a contest that lasted an hour and 50 minutes.
