History in the making: Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray meet in high-stakes shoot-out
Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray meet for the 27th time on Friday with a French Open final place at stake and with history on their shoulders. World number one Djokovic ended the reign of nine-time champion Rafael Nadal in the quarter-finals, handing the Spaniard just his second defeat in 72 matches at Roland Garros in a decade of extraordinary dominance.
Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray meet for the 27th time on Friday with a French Open final place at stake and with history on their shoulders.
World number one Djokovic ended the reign of nine-time champion Rafael Nadal in the quarter-finals, handing the Spaniard just his second defeat in 72 matches at Roland Garros in a decade of extraordinary dominance.
A win on Friday for the 28-year-old Serb will put him in a third final in Paris and just one victory away from a first French Open trophy and a career grand slam, a feat achieved by only seven other men.
Everything is coming together in my life and I am experiencing probably the pinnacle of my career, of my life. I am a complete person. Very satisfied on and off the court
It would also place him halfway to becoming only the third man to complete a calendar grand slam, a mission so daunting that only Don Budge (1938) and Rod Laver (1962 and 1969) have managed to pull it off.
By seeing off David Ferrer for the first time on clay, Murray has become the first British man to make the semi-finals in Paris on three occasions.
Victory on Friday would make him the first Briton to reach the men’s final since Bunny Austin in 1937. Fred Perry, meanwhile, remains Britain’s last king of Paris, winning the title in 1935.
Djokovic has a 40-2 record in 2015 having clinched a fifth Australian Open as well as Masters titles at Indian Wells, Miami, Monte Carlo and Rome.
