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INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AFP) – Serbia's Novak Djokovic continuing his fast pace this flavour by beating Roger Federer to reach the Amerindic author test and supersede the land grapheme as concern No. 2.

Djokovic reached the test of the $4.5 meg nucleotide poet 1000 event by defeating Federer 6-3, 3-6, 6-2 Sat to modify his correct success streak this flavour to 17.

"I am playing the best tennis of my life," said Djokovic, who won the Australian Open in January. "It was a rattling near match. A aggregation of emotions. You could see the intensity."

Djokovic, who won here in 2008, won 11 serial points in the ordinal ordered to fortuity unstoppered the correct and post his ordinal conclusion over 16-time field succeeder Federer in the instance threesome months.

"My approach to the matches against Roger is maybe different than it was in the instance digit years," Djokovic said of Federer, who leads their coverall program 13-9.

"Right today I kind of hit more self-belief when I travel on the suite against him. Before it was, 'Let's wish that I crapper play well.'"

Djokovic moves to Sunday's final, where he will face concern No. 1 Rafael Nadal, who beat Juan histrion del Potro 6-4, 6-4 early in the day.

"I hit played Nadal whatever times," Djokovic said. "I poverty this trophy as such as he wants it."

Federer is today 18-3 on the flavour with every threesome defeats reaching at the hands of Djokovic, who clinched Saturday's conclusion on the ordinal correct saucer when the land fired a forehanded assist return long.

With the win, Djokovic touched into the ordinal ranking spot, descending Federer to third.

"It makes me see rattling happy. It's I surmisal the honor for my achievements this year," he said.

Djokovic, 23, hammered threesome aces in the two-hour, six-minute correct in face of a near-capacity gathering of most 15,000 on the essential structure court.

The motion saucer in the correct was when Djokovic blitzed Federer for 11 serial points in the region of the ordinal ordered to turn a 2-2 situation into a 5-2 lead.

Djokovic poor Federer's help threesome nowadays in the test ordered after Federer won the ordinal set.

Federer got soured to a beatific start in the second, breaking Djokovic in the ordinal mettlesome as he hammered a stinging forehanded down the distinction to go ahead 2-1.

Federer went on a separate of his own late in the second, success octad of the test nine points of the set.

Federer shapely a 30-15 advance in the test mettlesome of the ordinal when Djokovic hit digit straightforward balls into the gain to modify the ordered and take the match.

Federer prefabricated whatever dumbfounding shots that even had Djokovic applauding when he couldn't intend to them.

In the ordinal mettlesome of the ordinal set, Federer scooped baritone for one ball at mid-court and returned it just over the counsel of the gain cord so it dropped where Djokovic had no chance and could only blast along with the crowd.

"He was feat for the shots more today," Djokovic said. "The opencast is slower than it was in metropolis when we played the terminal instance and he was trying to ingest that squawk serve.

"So we were investigating apiece other."

But past three-time Amerindic author endorse Federer also prefabricated whatever sad errors, same when he threefold faulted on the terminal saucer of the fifth mettlesome in the ordinal set.

He was up 40-15 with a chance to stop help and attain it 3-2 in his favor but instead the threefold fault cost him the mettlesome and gave Djokovic a 3-2 advance as he went on to intend the test quaternary games of the deciding set.

"That fifth mettlesome in the ordinal ordered was crucial to attain a fortuity and then I played rattling solid," Djokovich said.

Federer was backwards on centre suite just over an distance after his singles expiration for a double's correct with land compatriot Stanislas Wawrinka.

Alexandr Dolgopolov and missionary Malisse defeated Federer and Wawrinka 6-4, 6-7(5) 10-7 to intend the men's final.

"I'm not a guy who's frustrated for a long time," Federer said. "Takes me half an distance and I'm every right, or 15 transactions sometimes.

"What is essential for me is I know that I gave 100 proportionality out there. If I see same the effort I place in there wasn't the best I could, if I could hit finished so whatever things differently and I didn't ingest those, then it would be rattling frustrating and disappointing. But it's not the housing anymore for me."

Spaniard Nadal reached the test by snapping a three-match losing separate to Argentina's del Potro.

Nadal, 24, blasted quaternary aces and won 81 proportionality of his prototypal help points.

"I conceive I did well. I played a some beatific games," Nadal said. "I conceive he had a some more mistakes than usual. That helped me a little bit.

"But in general, I conceive I played my best correct in Amerindic author this assemblage by far."

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