WIMBLEDON, England – Roger Federer waited 11 years to get another shot at Rafael Nadal on Centre Court. This one was a semifinal, not a final. It was settled in four sets, not five.

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) -- Roger Federer waited 11 years to get another shot at Rafael Nadal on Centre Court. This one was a semifinal, not a final. It was settled in four sets, not five.

The two young players “have made the sport anew,” Giri Nathan writes in his new book, “stepping into superstardom right as ...

And now they were meeting at Wimbledon, where Federer has won eight titles to Nadal’s two. The last time they had faced each other there was in 2008, in what many consider the greatest match ...

Federer had been No. 1 in the world since February 2004. In a three-month stretch in mid-2008, Nadal spanked Federer in the French Open final (6-1, 6-3, 6-0), ended Federer’s Open Era record 65-match ...

In Friday's second Wimbledon semifinal, eight-time champion Federer and two-time winner Nadal are clashing for the 40th time in their historic rivalry, one Nadal leads 24-15.

But Friday’s semifinal meeting, the first at Wimbledon since Nadal outlasted Federer after a 4-hour, 48-minute final in 2008, feels unusually significant in the ongoing debate over who will end ...

Nadal makes a comforting admission in the film: When up against Federer, he led the fourth set tiebreaker 5-2, and had two serves to close out the match. But then his mind failed him.

In their 40th match-up, tennis greats Roger Federer defeated Rafael Nadal at Wimbledon in four sets on Friday. Federer will go on to face the top-seeded Novak Djokovic in the final.

For now, Nadal has a 24-15 edge in head-to-head matches, and Federer has a 2-1 edge at Wimbledon, having defeated Nadal in the 2006 and 2007 finals before losing in the gloaming in 2008.

Federer, Wimbledon's No. 2 seed at 37, survived No. 3-seeded Nadal 7-6 (7-3), 1-6, 6-3, 6-4 to advance to his 12th final at the All England Club. He'll face top-seeded Novak Djokovic, vying for ...