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No worries for Novak

Defending men’s singles champion Novak Djokovic has advanced to his fourth Australian Open final with ease, crushing Spaniard David Ferrer 6-2 6-2 6-1 on Thursday night.

The top seed and three-time Melbourne winner was untroubled after breaking Ferrer’s serve twice early in the first set, winning the match in just 89 minutes to progress to Sunday’s decider against the winner of Friday night’s clash between second seed Roger Federer and third seed Andy Murray.

Djokovic sprinted through the first two sets in a little over an hour, breaking Ferrer twice in the second set to love to take a decisive advantage before the sun had gone down over Rod Laver Arena.

He raced to the finish from there, breaking an increasingly despondent Ferrer in the first and third games of the final set. Ferrer’s humiliation was complete when he served a double fault to hand Djokovic a match point, which the top seed converted when the Spaniard sprayed a backhand error.

Ferrer won just 11 points in the final set. The loss was his ninth consecutive defeat to a top-three player, and sees the Spaniard’s major semifinal record fall to 0-5, losing at the final four stage in three of the last four Grand Slam events.

Djokovic, in his 11th consecutive Grand Slam semifinal, beat Ferrer in four sets at the same stage of the US Open last year, and has now won six of the last seven meetings between the pair.

In qualifying for Sunday night’s final, Djokovic became just the sixth player to make four Australian Open finals in the Open Era. The Serb is bidding to become the first man in the Open Era and the third man overall to win three or more Australian Open titles in succession.

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