14/06/2014

Aegon Championships: Day 6

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Feliciano Lopez sets up Aegon Championships final clash with Grigor Dimitrov

Feliciano Lopez will face Grigor Dimitrov in the Aegon Championships final after beating Radek Stepanek 7-6(7), 6-4.

The Spaniard won the first set in a thrilling 9-7 tie break, which included a twenty-one shot rally that had the crowd on their feet in appreciation.

In the second set Lopez secured the first break of the match in the seventh game with a cross-court backhand passing shot.

The tenth seed triumphed on his second match point to reach the Aegon Championships final for the first time in his career.

Lopez goes into tomorrow’s final having won a title on grass last year at the Aegon International

Grigor Dimitrov through to Aegon Championships final

Grigor Dimitrov is through to his first Aegon Championships final with a  6-2, 6-4 win over Stan Wawrinka.

Both players looked evenly matched at the start, but in the fifth game of the first set Wawrinka double faulted to give the Bulgarian the first break.

Dimitrov then broke again in the seventh game to win and held his serve to take the first set 6-2.

At 3-3 in the second set the Bulgarian got his racket to a 127mph second serve from the Swiss man and after an eight shot-rally prevailed once again to break.

Dimitrov served out the match in style with an ace down the middle to set up his first final on grass and his third of this year.

Grigor Dimitrov celebrates winning his Aegon Championships semi-final

After the match he said: “I don’t know why I have such a strong intuition about [this] tournament. It has always been like one of the biggest events for me, for some reason. It’s nothing better than to be in the final”.

If Dimitrov wins tomorrow he will be the only player on the men’s tour this year to win on all three main surfaces.

Watch highlights of Dimtrov vs. Wawrinka

Jamie Murray and John Peers through to doubles final

Briton Jamie Murray and his Australian partner John Peers beat French Open champions Edouard Roger-Vasselin and Julien Benneteau 6-4, 7-6(4) to make the Aegon Championships doubles final.

Murray and Peers had the support of the crowd during the entire match, but no more so than when the Brit hit a through-the-legs passing shot, and in the closely contested second set tiebreak.

Jamie Murray and John Peers celebrate their semi-final victory at the Aegon Championships

The pair will face against Alexander Peya and Bruno Soares, who beat Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic 7-5, 6-3 in the semi-finals.

Murray will be aiming to become the first British winner in the men’s doubles at The Queen’s Club since Jeremy Bates teamed up with American Kevin Curren to lift the trophy in 1990.

View tomorrow's schedule of play