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Marin Cilic discusses his semi-final win over Sam Querrey as he advances to his first title match at the All England Club. Video courtesy Wimbledon. Watch more videos at Wimbledon.com.

After seven years of grinding away on tour, Viktor Galovic of Croatia was rewarded last week with his first ATP Challenger Tour title. The 26 year old came through qualifying to prevail in Recanati, Italy. At No. 491 in the Emirates ATP Rankings, Galovic is the lowest-ranked Challenger winner this year. His only other Challenger semi-final also came on Italian soil in Bergamo, but that maiden effort took place in February 2013. "It was both a dream come true and a nightmare. All the matches were really, really tough, especially mentally, but it was really nice to get through,” said Galovic. “At the end, I had all the possible emotions you can imagine. I was almost crying. All the tension...

Sweden is hungry for another rising star to crack the Top 100 of the Emirates ATP Rankings, and #NextGenATP player Mikael Ymer is showing that he has the tools to achieve this with his run this week at the ATP Challenger Tour event in Bastad. The 18 year old delighted the home crowd on Thursday with a 6-2, 6-4 win over second seed Renzo Olivo of Argentina to reach his first Challenger semi-final of the year. Ymer passed through the qualifying rounds in just one of the six Challenger events he’s played this season, but made full use of a wild card to produce an inspired run. “It feels great. I haven't had the best Challenger year, so I’ve been...

It will be a semi-final full of firsts when seventh seed Marin Cilic and 24th seed Sam Querrey kick off semi-final Friday at The Championships on Centre Court. Both Cilic and Querrey will be playing in their first Wimbledon semi-final. Cilic, who had lost in the quarter-finals the past three years, broke through in a five-set battle against the big-serving left-hander Gilles Muller of Luxembourg, who had advanced past Rafael Nadal in the fourth round, 15-13 in the fifth set. View FedEx ATP Head2Head & vote for who you think will win! [POLL]46378[/POLL] Querrey also had to work for his maiden Wimbledon semi-final, outlasting World No. 1 and two-time champion Andy Murray in five sets in the quarter-finals. Querrey became the first...

The last time Tomas Berdych and Roger Federer met late in the second week of The Championships, Federer could barely be stopped at Wimbledon. The Swiss right-hander was attempting to reach his eighth consecutive final and win his seventh title at the All England Club. But Berdych summoned some of his best tennis and denied Federer those opportunities, hitting the Swiss off the court during their 2010 quarter-final. Now all Berdych needs to do is repeat that performance under similar circumstances when they take Centre Court following Friday's first semi-final. “It's hard to compare... After so many years, I have so much more experience from that time and everything,” Berdych said, looking back at his 2010 win. “Let's see. It's...