Roger Federer was at his best against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga to reach the Australian Open final with consummate ease.

For a match which had received high billing after Tsonga’s performance in taking out Novak Djokovic on Wednesday, it was a damp squib.

Tsonga simply did not turn up and Federer raced to a 6-2, 6-3, 6-2 victory in just 88 minutes. The Frenchman made error after error and his usually powerful serve was a shadow of its normal self.

Federer took full advantage to break five times and in all honesty, one he secured a
3-1 first set lead, the match was barely a contest.

It was a big disappointment for Tsonga who afterwards lamented, “I think I was at 50 or 55% of first serves in and the speed of my serving was also poor. Also, I missed some volley at the beginning of the match and after that it was tough. "He took the ball earlier than me, and he was just better than me. Today he was really good."

Federer was about as relaxed as it was possible to be, both during and after the match and he took great delight in starting the mind games ahead of Sunday’s final with Andy Murray.

"I know that he'd like to win the first title in British tennis in, what is it 150,000 years?" the world number one joked. "I will have to be aggressive. We've had some different types of matches against each other.”

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