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Federer broke the record again 27.06.2011

Swiss tennis legend Roger Federer continues to break record after record. Tonight, the world number 3 failed to remove Russian Mikhail Youzhny in four sets (6:7, 6:3, 6:3, 6:3) and thus qualified for next stage.

The unique thing is that this is the 29th consecutive quarter final in a Grand Slam for the famous tennis player. This is the 10th quarter of Federer at Wimbledon and so he overtook this indicator Pete Sampras. Only Jimmy Connors with 14 and Boris Becker with 11 have more than him.

During the match Federer himself had some problems only in the first set he was completely equivalent and it was ultimately up to tiebreak. It showed more resistance Southern and won a surprise.

In the next three sets but Federer left no doubt about who is the class player. He closed in parts 6-3, 6-3 and 6-3 again.

In the next phase Federer will argue for the semi-final place with Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. The Frenchman, who removed our Grigor Dimitrov won against David Ferrer 6-3, 6-4 and 7-6. This will be the first match between Federer and Tsonga of grass in the overall balance of the advance has Federer wins 4-1.