Tennis - Australian Open - Melbourne, Australia, January 27, 2018. Roger Federer of Switzerland hits a shot during a practice session. REUTERS/Toru Hanai
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Even by Roger Federer's standards his path to a 30th grand slam final has been a breeze but things are about to hot up as Croatian Marin Cilic prepares to try to stop the Swiss claiming a sixth Australian Open title on Sunday.
Federer has only been extended past the two-hour mark twice in reaching his seventh final in Melbourne and even those two matches this week against unseeded Marton Fucsovics and Tomas Berdych were relatively straightforward straight-sets wins.
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