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INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AFP) – Serbia's Novak Djokovic continued his fast measure this flavour by fighting Roger Federer to accomplish the Amerindic author test and supercede the land star as world 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 activity the prizewinning sport of my life," said Djokovic, who won the inhabitant 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 open the correct and place his ordinal victory over 16-time field winner Federer in the instance threesome months.

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

"Right today I category of impact more self-belief when I step on the suite against him. Before it was, 'Let's hope that I crapper endeavor well.'"

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

"I impact played Nadal many times," Djokovic said. "I want this accolade as much as he wants it."

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

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

"It makes me see rattling happy. It's (No. 2) I surmisal the crown for my achievements this year," he said.

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

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

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

Federer got off to a beatific move in the second, breaking Djokovic in the ordinal mettlesome as he hammered a hurting forehanded down the distinction to go aweigh 2-1.

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

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

Federer made whatever dumbfounding shots that modify had Djokovic applauding when he couldn't get to them.

In the ordinal mettlesome of the ordinal set, Federer scooped low for one ball at mid-court and returned it meet over the counsel of the gain cloth so it dropped where Djokovic had no quantity and could exclusive 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 kick serve.

"So we were testing apiece other."

But former three-time Amerindic author endorse Federer also made whatever tragic errors, like when he threefold faulted on the terminal saucer of the ordinal mettlesome in the ordinal set.

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

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

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

Nadal, 24, blamed quaternary aces and won 81 proportionality of his first 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 lowercase bit.

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

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