Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic face off in the semifinals of the 2014 Monte Carlo Masters tennis tournament on April 19 in Monaco.
The pair will play at approximately 3 p.m. CEST.
The game will be broadcast on ESPN International, Sport 1 in Germany, Novasports in Greece, MRTV in Macedonia, MTV in Finland, Teleclub in Switzerland, Digisport in Romania, Canal+ in France, Sport1 in Israel, Balls Channel in the Philippines, Racquet Channel in Singapore, Gaora in Japan, RDS in Canada, and the Tennis Channel in the United States.
Live streaming will be available through monte-carlorolexmasters.tennistv.com.
Federer of Switzerland, the No. 4 seed in the tournament, took out No. 9 seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France in the quarterfinals (2-6, 7-6, 6-1).
Djokovic of Serbia, the No. 2 seed in the tournament, dispatched with unranked Guillermo Garcia-Lopez in the quarterfinals (4-6, 6-3, 6-1).
The winner will face the winner of Stanislas Wawrinka and David Ferrer.
See an Associated Press story about the quarterfinals below.
PARIS—Rafael Nadal’s mastery of the Monte Carlo clay courts seems to be over.
The top-ranked Spaniard hopes his confidence isn’t gone, too.
Nadal lost to fellow Spaniard David Ferrer 7-6 (1), 6-4 in the quarterfinals of the Monte Carlo Masters on Friday, his earliest exit since 2003 at a tournament that helped build his reputation as perhaps the greatest clay-court player of all time. Nadal won eight consecutive titles here from 2005-12, before losing to Novak Djokovic in last year’s final.
This was Nadal’s first loss on clay to Ferrer since 2004, and the 13-time Grand Slam champion said he is still trying to find his best form after a disappointing loss to Stanislas Wawrinka in the Australian Open final.
“After what happened in Australia, (it) was little bit harder for me to find again the intensity, the confidence, the inside power that always I have,” Nadal said. “Even if I won Rio, I played the final in Miami, you know, (this) remains something in my mind and in my game.”
Djokovic looked like he might follow him out, but the Serb finally got the better of the unseeded Guillermo Garcia-Lopez of Spain 4-6, 6-3, 6-1 to set up a 34th career meeting against 17-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer.
“I started very poorly. Garcia-Lopez played well and I had to work for this win,”Djokovic said. “I finally started to play as I wanted in the second set.”
Federer leads Djokovic 17-16 in head-to-heads and they are 1-1 this year, withFederer beating him in the Dubai Championship semifinals and Djokovic winning their final at Indian Wells.
The Serb was close to losing against Garcia-Lopez, saving a break point in the fifth game of the second set and two more when trailing 15-40 in his next service game.
Djokovic then made a crucial break to take a 5-3 lead, served out the set, and then broke Garcia-Lopez twice at the start of the third.
Ferrer hardly needed to dig deep as Nadal committed 44 unforced errors and gave away 10 break-point chances on his serve.
“I didn’t play the right way. I didn’t play with the right intensity with my forehand. I played too short,” Nadal said. “I give him the chance to have the control of the point almost all the time.”
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