Roger Federer And The 15th Career Basel Semifinal.

Roger Federers win over Gilles Simon in Basel: Facing one of his toughest career opponents, Roger Federer fought for more than two and a half hours to make it past Gilles Simon in the quarterfinals of the Swiss Indoors Basel on Friday, 7-6 , 4-6, 6-4.

It was a battle from the beginning, and the first set could easily have gone Simons way he was originally up 5-2, and even had a set point at 6-5 on Federers serve.

After sneaking out that first set, Federer dropped the second set, but then stormed out to a 4-1 lead in the third.

Federer and Medvedev have played just once before, in the second round of the Masters 1000 event in Shanghai just a few weeks ago, and Federer needed almost two hours to prevail, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4.