 What's going on everybody? Welcome to another semi-final preview. We're going through the next semi-final Nadal versus Federer. So we've gone through the Djokovic versus Batistra. Go check that video out if you haven't already and now we're going through Nadal versus Federer. Episode 40, if you're counting, they played 39 times before. This will be the 40th time they played and I don't think they've actually played in the semi-finals of Wimbledon before. They have played in the final three times. Federer leads the Wimbledon head-to-head 2-1 at the moment. So let's go through their road to this stage. We'll start with Rafa Nadal. So the road to the semi-finals, he won this tournament back in 2008 and also 2010 when he defeated Burdic. So he hasn't won this tournament for nine years. So a lot of people are probably thinking that Nadal probably won this in 2014 or 2015. He hasn't won it for almost 10 years so they've got to keep that into account. As you can see he won the first match pretty easily. He's only being in trouble once in this tournament and that was against Nick Kirios and I think maybe that was because of the animosity between the players. It wasn't really anything to do with the skill level. I think it was just more towards the anger it seems like Rafa has towards Nick Kirios at times. But Songa, he didn't come up to par. He was absolutely terrible in my opinion. When we saw him play Nadal, he did not come out to play at all. Then Nadal beat Sosa in the fourth round. No surprise there. Sosa is not really a grass court player. And then to my surprise, and to a lot of people's joy out there, because I picked Query to beat Nadal, Nadal ended up beating Query really easily. First set was tough though. I mean that first set could have gone either way. Query come back from 5-4 down. If he got to the tie break maybe things would have been a little different. But as soon as Nadal won that first set, he was off and that was it. Nadal dominated and he was in beast mode ever since. In my opinion, Nadal's been playing at semi-final level since the second round. He's had to play his best tennis from round two onwards because he's played, he had a hell of a draw. It's crazy. He's lucky that Sosa ended up getting through because there was some crazy opponents he could have played in the fourth round and quarter-finals. Luckily he didn't have to play them. But I think in previous years, Nadal hasn't really kick-started his grass court season until the quarter-final stage. But this time, maybe to his benefit, it's actually, he's had to play his best tennis at the second round. So that might be something we can look forward to in the Federer match. Let's go see what Federer is up to and what he's been doing in this tournament. His last win, he's obviously won this eight times before. His last time he won it was 2017. He defeated Marin Chilich in the final, so only a couple of years ago. First round, lost the first set of the tournament, which was a massive shock for a lot of us. Then he came back and won pretty easily after that against a young South African Lloyd Harris. Then he beat Clark in the second round straight sets. He beat Puy in the third round but it wasn't very convincing. A lot of errors. Wasn't playing very well but he got through. Luckily Puy was playing a little bit worse. Then the Baratini match wiped him off the court. Fastest ever fourth round men's match ever in a Grand Slam. 74 minutes. Federer absolutely annihilated one of the best grass court players of the season. So that was pretty pretty dominant there from Federer. And then the quarter-final against Nishikori. Nishikori won the first set. Played super aggressive. Kind of played like Djokovic a bit. So that was interesting to see. But then after that Nishikori forgot how to play and Federer ended up winning the match. Could have easily gone five sets. Nishikori started to regain his form towards the end of the fourth but it was too late because Federer broke and then won the match. We actually watched that on this channel. It was very interesting and it was really fun to watch. So make sure that you do come along to the live shows. And now he plays against Nadal in the semi-final so the second Grand Slam in a row which is so much fun for us. Let's go through their head to head because they've got a massive history. They played 39 times before. This is number 40. Huge rivalry. One of the best in tennis. As you can see last time they played Roland Garros 2019. Only what two months ago. Nadal won that one straight sets. No surprise because Nadal was the king of clay. Federer hadn't played on clay for four years. So it was pretty obvious that that was going to happen. But then interestingly enough Federer actually won their five previous meetings before that Roland Garros meeting. They're all on hard court but still Federer had a 5-0 momentum in the last five matches until Nadal broke that. So is that going to be a factor? The fact that Nadal got the confidence back. He knows how he can beat Federer again. Maybe that might play a play a bit of a factor into this match and give Nadal a bit of extra confidence that he's beaten Federer in the last couple of months even though it's on grass and not clay. As you can see last time they played which was Roland Garros Nadal won six out of 16 break points. So Federer can't give Nadal that opportunity. He can't give Nadal 16 break points because Nadal is too good to not take at least six to ten of those. So if Federer is going to win this he's going to have to make sure he doesn't give away break points and Nadal is going to have to convert break points like he did at Roland Garros. Last time they played on the clay at Roland Garros Federer only won 39% a second serve point. So Nadal was attacking the second serve and he was winning a lot of points on the second serve. Federer is going to have to serve well if he is to beat Nadal and Nadal is going to have to take the opportunity like he did at Roland Garros to beat the second serve of Federer when he gets a chance. Last round against Query Nadal hit 44 winners and 12 unforced errors that is ridiculous that is ridiculous 12 unforced errors in three sets and he hit 44 winners in three sets that is craziness. Great hitting from Nadal absolutely beast mode from him and then the last round Federer hit 55 winners in four sets but he hit 32 unforced errors which is not a good sign if you are on the Federer bandwagon on this one so got to make sure that Federer doesn't hit those 32 unforced errors he's got to hit less than 20 if he's any chance it's going to be tough though against Nadal. All right so I'm very reluctant to give a give a prediction here because the last time I gave her a prediction on Nadal match everyone got very angry so maybe to my maybe I shouldn't have picked the upset against Nadal but hey it's finished we're done we're on to the next one so this is what I think is going to happen I mean can we just get a five set match do we need we don't need to you know I don't care who wins I just want a five set match I want an epic match I want a 2008 Wimbledon final between Nadal Federer replay in 2019 is that is that too much to ask I think that's what we all want especially if you are a Federer and Nadal fan like I am I'm a fan of both players you can flip a coin as long as we get to the fifth set flip a coin I don't care who wins after that but my smart money and it mainly depends on the last round so like I said Federer struggled against Ishikori someone who he beats most of the time pretty convincingly and Nadal beat a big serving player who I thought he'd struggle against so you know a little bit of a shock from both sides on both of those matches so giving that into account like I said I hope it goes five sets I don't really mind who plays who wins because either way the winner of this is probably going to play Djokovic which again is going to be epic so five sets please be five sets but my prediction for this one is going to be Rafa Nadal he convinced me in the last quarter final that he is ridiculously good at at this level on this stage at this tournament right now so he hasn't won the tournament since 2010 like I said so maybe he can do it this year but he's going to have to beat Federer and then probably Djokovic in the final but like I said let's just get a five set match who cares who wins I know there's a lot of Nadal fans a lot of Federer fans out there you're going for your players I get that but for Tennis's sake let's just get a five set match put it in the books epic match last time they played on grass at Wimbledon in 2008 in the final that match was insane one of the best matches in history hopefully we get a replay of that that'd be so much fun to see I mean we are so lucky that we get to see these guys play against each other in the last parts of their career as well so it's not going to happen too many more times I don't think they're going to play each other so you know we'll have to wait and see but this could be one of the last times we've seen the Nadal Federer match up so we've got to take advantage of it and hopefully goes five sets now we are going to be watching this match as well as the Djokovic and Batistra a good match in the semi-finals on Friday so make sure you come along to those they're going to be a lot of fun hopefully we get two five set matches I mean let's be honest the the Wimbledon tournament this year has not been besides the upsets on day one and two the tournament's been pretty boring like it hasn't been very exciting the best players in the world have gone through easily they haven't been too many you know mistakes I mean Nadal Djokovic and Federer have not really played four set matches let alone a five set match yet so hopefully we can start as we get to the pointy end of the tournament start getting these epic matches that we want make sure you come along to the live shows they're on Friday don't forget to subscribe to the channel like the video and I'll see you guys in the live shows