Federer was at his best as he moved into his 19th consecutive Grand Slam Grand semi-final. He won 6-3, 6-0, 6-0 to set up a meeting with Andy Roddick. Federer was simply too good, what was more impressive is that he was playing a top ten player.

Roddick had advanced to the semi final earlier in the day after the defending champion Novak Djokovic could not handle the heat and was forced to retire from the match in the fourth set.

In Wednesday action we will see Fernando Verdasco take on last years runner-up Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in an afternoon match. In the night session Rafael Nadal faces Gilles Simon. With the temperature forecast to go over 40 degrees celcius in Melbourne we could again see the heat rather than the tennis players skill decide a match.