Federer, who will turn 38 next month, fought hard with Nadal, 33, for more than three hours and finally defeated his opponent 7-6 (3), 1-6, 6-3 and 6-4. He will compete for the championship with top seed Djokovic in the final on the 14th. As the defending champion, Djokovic defeated agut of Spain in an earlier game to advance to the finals.
Federer lost 0-3 to Nadal in the French Open semi-final last month. In the first set of the game, both of them gave full play to their advantages and kept their serve. Neither of them gave the other a break point in the whole set. In the Seventh World War, Federer won by 4 points after they won 3-3.
In the second set, Nadal broke Federer's second serve and took the lead 3-1. Federer then made frequent mistakes, allowing Nadal to seize the opportunity to break and win easily. In the next two sets, Federer played stably, especially the classic serve and backhand attack. Nadal also played a lot of wonderful attacks and tenaciously saved five match points in the fourth set, but he still couldn't stop the precise attack of Swiss' King of heaven 'at the critical moment, so he could only regret to lose.
This is the 40th meeting between Federer and Nadal. It is also the first time that Nadal has met at Wimbledon since he defeated Federer in the final in 2008. After this defeat, Nadal still dominated by 24-16. However, since 2015, the two have played eight times, and Nadal only won once in the French Open last month.
Federer said after the game: 'it was a hard game. I was exhausted. Rafa (Nadal) played a lot of incredible attacks. I served well today and scored key points. Winning the first set is very important.'
Nadal said: 'I had a chance, but he played better than me. Maybe I didn't play at the level of the previous rounds. Overall, his return was better than me, which allowed him to control the rhythm of the game and put more pressure on me. "
In the women's doubles competition, Chinese player Xu Yixuan and Canadian player Dong brovsky partnered and broke into the Wimbledon final for the first time after three sets of hard work against Czech combination krichkova / siniyakova.
Xu Yizhen, 30, and Dong brovsky are old partners. They reached the semi-finals here last year. They will compete for the championship with Xie Shuwei, the third seed from Chinese Taipei, and strokova of the Czech Republic.
In the mixed doubles semi-final, Chinese player Yang Zhaoxuan and Dutch partner midelkop lost 0-2 to lindstede of Sweden and Ostapenko of Latvia.