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MELBOURNE, Australia -- Novak Djokovic overcome his breathing problems and fatigue to beat his old friend Andy Murray in an almost five-hour Australian Open semifinal Friday night and move into his third straight Grand Slam final. Standing between Djokovic and a record shared by some of the greatest players of all time will be No. 2-ranked Rafael Nadal, a man he beat in six tournament finals in 2011. Despite appearing tired and sore from the second set, the defending champion rallied to beat fourth-seeded Murray 6-3, 3-6, 6-7 (4), 6-1, 7-5 in a rematch of the 2011 final at Melbourne Park. After wasting a chance to serve out the match at 5-3 in the fifth and letting Murray back into the contest, Djokovic cashed in his first match point when the Scottish player missed a forehand after four hours 50 minutes. "You have to find strength in those moments and energy, and that keeps you going," Djokovic said. "I think we both went through a physical crisis. You know, him at the fourth set, me all the way through the second and midway through the third. It was a very even match throughout, from the first to the last point." Djokovic dropped onto his back, fully laid out on the court. He got up and shook hands with Murray, before jogging back out onto the court like a boxer, dropping to his knees and crossing himself. It was already after 12:30 a.m. Saturday when he got up again and pumped his arms triumphantly. "Andy deserves the credit to come back from 2-5 down. He was fighting. I was fighting," Djokovic said. "Not many words that can describe the feeling of the match. "Evidently it was a physical match ... it was one of the best matches I played. Emotionally and mentally it was equally hard." In junior boys play, Vancouvers Filip Peliwo advanced to the final with a 6-4, 6-4 win over American Mackenzie McDonald. The 17-year-old Peliwo is the first Canadian since 2006 to reach a junior Grand Slam singles final. He will meet No. 1-ranked Luke Saville of Australia in the final. Peliwo defeated Saville last week to win the Traralgon International. Second-seeded Eugenie Bouchard of Montreal lost her girls semifinal to fourth-seeded Russian Yulia Putintseva 7-5, 6-1. It was a bitter setback for Murray, who lost the previous two Australian finals and is still trying to end a drought for British men at majors dating back to 1936. He is confident he has already improved in the few weeks since hiring eight-time major winner Ivan Lendl as coach. "Yeah, it was tough at the end cause, you know, obviously you come back, then you get close to breaking," he said. "To lose, yeah, its tough. "But a different player, a different attitude to this time last year. Im proud of the way I fought." Djokovic finished last year at No. 1 after winning three of the four majors, including a straight-sets win over Murray in the Australian final. His only loss at a Grand Slam in 2011 was against Roger Federer in the French Open semifinals. It was phenomenal season after previously only winning one major -- the 2008 Australian Open -- and not returning to a final for 11 Grand Slams. "To be honest, I think I matured as a player. I started to believe on the court I could win majors," he said. "Rafa and Roger are the most dominant players for the last seven, eight years. ... It was very hard to take away the titles from them. They will not give you the titles. You have to earn it." He is now aiming to be only the fifth man in the Open Era started in 1968 to win three straight majors -- only Rod Laver, Pete Sampras, Federer and Nadal have achieved it before him, with only Laver going on to complete the Grand Slam by winning all four majors in a season. The Australian great was in the arena named in his honour to watch Friday nights semifinal, as he had been when 2009 Australian Open winner Nadal came back from a set and a break down to beat four-time champion Federer in four sets the previous night. Djokovics 70-6 win-loss record in 2011 included those six wins over Nadal in finals -- including Wimbledon and the U.S. Open. Nadal has had an extra day to prepare for the final, but will be conscious of his own performance three years ago when he beat Fernando Verdasco in a 5-hour, 14-minute semifinal and had 24 hours less to prepare for a final against Federer that he eventually won. On Friday night, both Djokovic and Murray had form dips -- but Djokovics were more obvious. He led by a set and a break before Murray started coming back at him. Then Djokovic started walking gingerly and appeared to be struggling for breath -- just as he had been in his straights sets quarter-final win over No. 5-ranked David Ferrer. At one point, he pointed to his nose and seemed to indicated to his support group that he was having trouble breathing. He stayed in the points, despite Murray scrambling and trying to get him involved in long rallies. "You try to get energized in every way," he said. "A lot of liquids, try to eat something, as well, that gives you energy." He put his breathing problems down to allergies, and said hed seen a doctor for it. After winning a tight tiebreaker but then virtually conceding the fourth set, Murray rallied again after slipping behind 5-2 in the fifth. He broke Djokovic at love when the Serb was serving for the match on a three-game streak that put all the pressure back on the defending champion. But Djokovic composed himself and seemed to be gathering energy as the match wore on. He held serve and then broke Murray to finish it off. "Im extremely delighted to be in the final," Djokovic said. "What can be a bigger challenge than playing against Rafa Nadal, one of the greatest players ever. "Im going to try to recover. Obviously its going to be physical as well." Despite being friends and childhood rivals, this was only the second meeting between Djokovic and Murray at a Grand Slam. Djokovic beat Murray in the 2011 Australian final and had a 6-4 lead in their overall head-to-heads at tour level. Murray won the Brisbane International and came into the semifinal on a 10-match winning streak. The blue-and-white crossed Scottish flags fluttered in the crowd, held by fans with the flag painted on their faces and some wearing their tartan Tam hats. The support was evenly split at Rod Laver Arena, encouraging both players in the tense final set. The Maria Sharapova vs. Victoria Azarenka womens final on Saturday night is being previewed in the local media as a battle of the two loudest grunters on the tour. Azarenka, who won the Sydney International title the weekend before the seasons first major, is bidding to continue her winning shriek. Sharapova has won three majors, but none since the 2008 Australian Open. Azarenka will be playing her first Grand Slam final. The winner will move to the top of the womens rankings. Caroline Wozniacki, who came into the tournament as No. 1, will drop three places after her quarter-final loss to 2011 champion Kim Clijsters. Russians Svetlana Kuznetsova and Vera Zvonareva won the womens doubles final on Friday with a 5-7, 6-4, 6-3 victory over the Italian duo of Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci. Bethanie Mattek-Sands and her Romanian partner Horia Tecau advanced to the mixed doubles final with a 6-3, 6-3 win over Indian pair Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi. Theyll next play Elena Vesnina of Russia and Indias Leander Paes. 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"It just came together that Dan was the right guy as we went through the process," said Popp. "We got some very high-profile people call on his behalf and there were probably two or three candidates that never said anything negative about somebody and he was one of them. "And you dont get those type of people calling for you unless youre the real deal and hes proven he has been the real deal. Hes a quality, quality head-coaching prospect and were going to give him that opportunity." Hawkins wasted no time trying to fit into his new surrounding, giving his opening remarks in tortured but earnest French. But there was no denying Hawkins enthusiasm for his first pro head-coaching job. "You look at when you were a kid out in the yard playing football and you started making up these other rules that made the game more fun and more exciting, youve got a lot of that in the CFL," he said. "I mean, everybodys in motion. "In the States, youve got one guy in motion. Youve got a wider field so youve got more space. Theyre talking about widening the NFL field right now to kind of eliminate some of the collisions. All thats exciting." Hawkins takes over a Montreal team that finished atop the East Division with an 11-7 record last year. But the Alouettes lost 27-20 to the eventual Grey Cup-champion Toronto Argonauts in the conference final. Hawkins spent the last two seasons as a college football analyst for ESPN but served as the head coach at Boise State and Colorado. Hawkins was just 19-39 at Colorado but an impressive 53-11 at Boise State and has an overall record of 112-61-1. "Ive always been sort of an out-of-the-box guy," said Hawkins. "You can just be as creative as you really want to be and thats fun from a coachs standpoint." Popp spoke to over 50 coaching candidates during his search and involved veteran quarterback Anthony Calvillo in the process. Calvillo, who is entering his 20th CFL season and 16th with Montreal, spoke to all of the hopefuls. "I had a great conversation with all of them and said, `Theres not one that stands out over the other, because this is not what I do," pro footballs all-time passing leader said. "This is the first time Ive been involved in terms of speaking to a potential head coach. "All I did was just speak offensive philosophy and we left it at that." Calvillo didnt know about Hawkins hiring until receiving a phone call from owner Robert Wetenhall on Sunday.dddddddddddd "We now have to buy into the philosophy of Dan Hawkins and thats going to be something Im going to do this off-season," Calvillo said. "Ive trusted Mr. Wetenhall and Jim Popp every time they brought in a new head coach and now its our turn as players to buy into what Dan is going to bring to the table and try not to compare too much of what your last coach did." Mike Miller, who served last season as the Arizona Cardinals offensive co-ordinator, joins Hawkins staff as the assistant head coach, offensive co-ordinator and quarterbacks coach. "Our goal is to take it from Day 1 and go," said Miller, who interviewed for Montreals head job. "I think you guys know in professional football theres really no grace period. "Weve already been working for a few days. Well get some player input, obviously AC being one of them, and were going to hit the ground running and were looking forward to it." The remainder of Hawkins staff will be Noel Thorpe (defensive co-ordinator), Ray Rychleski (special-teams co-ordinator), Doug Berry (senior advisor to head coach), Jean-Marc Edme (defensive assistant, football operations assistant), Frank Verducci (offensive line coach), Mark Speckman (running backs coach), Erik Campbell (receivers coach), Keith Willis (defensive line coach), Mark Nelson (linebackers coach) and Ryan Dinwiddie (offensive quality control coach). Hawkins cant wait to get going. "Youre like a kid in a candy store," Hawkins said. "Now is there a lot to learn? "Yeah, but thats where youve got Jim, youve got Doug, youve got Ryan, youve got Mark, youve got Noel, you have people that have boots on the ground and kind of get it." Berry, who served as Winnipegs head coach from 2006-08, has 12 years of CFL coaching experience -- including as an assistant with Montreal from 1999 to 05. "That was a given because I know so much about how Jim Popp operates, how the organization works," Berry said. "That was a very comfortable shoe for me to put back on again." Dinwiddie played six CFL seasons with Winnipeg (2006-08) and Saskatchewan (2010-11) but will be making his coaching debut with Montreal. Dinwiddie played for Hawkins at Boise State from 2001 to 03. Dinwiddie was on Montreals practice roster in 05 but didnt make his first CFL start until the 07 Grey Cup with Winnipeg, losing 23-19 to Saskatchewan at Rogers Centre. Dinwiddie also backed up Riders starter Darian Durant in the 2010 Grey Cup, which Montreal won. "Obviously, we have big shoes to fill and we understand that but he (Hawkins) doesnt have to be Marc Trestman," Dinwiddie said. "He needs to be Dan Hawkins. "He hired Mike Miller to be Marc Trestman . . . Hawk will have his hands in on it but hes going to be the head coach. Hell make sure this things running right, make sure the coaches are doing the things they need to do handling and motivating the players. Hes ready for it." cheap nfl jerseys cheap soccer jerseys ' ' '
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