Federer, seeded second, defeated 24th-seeded Tommy Haas 7-6 (7-3), 7-5, 6-3 Friday, in reaching his 20th career Grand Slam final. He is 14-5 in those matches.
That includes a 2-0 record in Wimbledon finals against Roddick, who got by third-seeded Andy Murray 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (9-7), 7-6 (7-5) in his semifinal. Federer is 18-2 overall against the sixth-seeded American.
Sunday will mark the fourth Grand Slam final for Roddick, who won the U.S. Open in 2003.
Roddick won two more points -- 143-141 -- than Murray over the more than 3-hour match. Each player had two service breaks, including trading breaks in the third set.
Roddick was able to get a mini-break to go up 3-1 in the tiebreaker and moved to match point by surviving a long rally. Murray, serving, staved of the first match point but Roddick followed a forehand to the net for a volley to end the match.
Federer's victory over Haas was workmanlike. He didn't face a break point and had 49 winners against 15 unforced errors. Aside from the tiebreaker, Haas played Federer even until the 12th game of the second set when a long Haas forehand gave Federer the first break of the match.
Federer had one unforced error in the third set and lost two points on serve before putting the match away with an overhead smash.
Federer's 14 Grand Slam titles include five consecutive at Wimbledon from 2003-07. A win Sunday would give him a record 15 major tournament titles.
Copyright 2009 by United Press International.
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