Daily Star Sunday

Fed out to Born winner

- ■ TENNIS

ROGER FEDERER was brushed aside by Croatia’s Borna Coric in the semi-finals of the Shanghai Masters.

The world No.19 produced a fierce display of power-hitting against the top seed to go through

6-4 6-4 and meet Novak Djokovic in today’s final.

Serb Djokovic stormed past German Alexander Zverev 6-2 6-1, a win which saw him take the world No.2 slot.

Swiss ace Federer (right), playing in his first ATP event since a shock

last-16 exit at the US Open, struggled against Coric’s heavy returns.

It was a second straight win over Federer for the Croat, 21, having beaten the Swiss to lift the Halle title in June.

Djokovic did not face a break point en route to a

59-minute victory as he extended his winning streak to 17 ATP matches.

He said: “I did everything I intended to do on my end.

“It’s all working and it’s been a couple of perfect matches.

“There’s a lot of positives to take from my matches this week.” MAX FACTOR: Medard and Burns FREDDIE BURNS kissed goodbye to Bath’s chances of European glory with an embarrassi­ng blunder yesterday.

In a passage of play which will haunt him, the England internatio­nal butchered not one but TWO golden chances to beat Toulouse.

First he missed a kick from slap bang in front of the sticks to win the game, three minutes from time.

Then he was so sure he had made

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