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No. 1 Amelie Mauresmo vs. No. 3 Justine Henin-Hardenne
Mauresmo and Henin-Hardenne will square off in a Grand Slam final for the second time this year, and one player is going to win her first title at the All England Club.

With a win Saturday, Henin-Hardenne would become just the 10th player in history to achieve a career Grand Slam and join Serena Williams as the only active players to accomplish this feat.

Furthermore, she would be just one Grand Slam title shy of matching Williams' total of seven -- the most among active players. Henin-Hardenne has advanced to all three major finals this season: She retired in the second set against Mauresmo at the Australian Open, and last month won her second straight French Open and third in the past four years.

Through six matches, the Belgian has failed to drop a set. At the French, she won all seven of her matches in straight sets, as well. Serena was the last woman to win back-to-back Grand Slam titles without dropping a set. The Open era record is held by Steffi Graf, who won 20 consecutive sets in 1988, the year she won all four majors.

After failing in her first 31 attempts to win a Grand Slam, Mauresmo -- the No. 1 player in the world -- will be gunning for her second this season.

Her win at Melbourne Park earlier this year was overdue. The Frenchwoman had 19 career titles entering this season, the most by any player who never had won one of the big four. With a win, she would become the fifth player since 2000 to win multiple Grand Slam events in the same season.

After cruising through her first four rounds, Mauresmo has needed to work in her last two matches. No. 9 Anastasia Myskina took the second set from her in the quarterfinals, as did Maria Sharapova in the semis.

With her win over Sharapova, Mauresmo finally broke her losing streak in semifinal matchups at the All England Club. She had lost in each of her last three appearances here in the final four and was just 1-4 in Grand Slam semifinals before her title run in Australia.

Interestingly, this will be the first time in three years a top-10 seed will win the title at the All England Club. Last year, it was No. 14 Venus Williams, and in 2004, Sharapova won as the No. 13 seed.

No. 1 Roger Federer vs. Jonas Bjorkman
Federer, the No. 1 player in the world, is two matches from joining Bjorn Borg and Pete Sampras as the only players in the Open era to have won at least four straight Wimbledon titles.

The Swiss has yet to drop a set en route to the semifinals; the only player to win this title winning 21 sets while dropping none was Borg, 30 years ago.

Federer has reached the semifinals of a Grand Slam event nine consecutive times, one shy of Ivan Lendl's Open era record set between 1985 and 1988. In that span, the Czech native won five Grand Slam titles -- the same number Federer has won during his streak.

Through five rounds, Federer has played remarkably clean tennis, hitting over three times as many winners as unforced errors. (190 to 58).

The three-time defending champ clearly will be the favorite heading into his semifinal encounter with unseeded Bjorkman. The latter is in a Grand Slam semifinal for just the second time in his career, the first since the 1997 U.S. Open -- a match he lost to Greg Rusedski in five sets.

At 34, Bjorkman is the oldest player to reach the Wimbledon final four since Jimmy Connors in 1987, and he is bidding to become the first Swede to reach the final at the All England Club since Stefan Edberg in 1990.

Federer has played and defeated Bjorkman three times, although they have not played each other in two years. Their first encounter came here at the grass of Wimbledon in 2001 with Federer winning in straight sets.

No. 2 Rafael Nadal vs. No. 18 Marcos Baghdatis
After dropping the first two sets to Robert Kendrick in the second round, Nadal has strung together 12 consecutive sets to advance to reach his first career Wimbledon semifinal.

Nadal, who has not been broken since the second round, is the first reigning French Open champion to advance to the Wimbledon semifinals since Andre Agassi in 1999. (Agassi lost to Sampras in the final.) No one has pulled off the French-Wimbledon double since Borg, who accomplished this feat three years in a row, 1978-80.

If Federer and Nadal win their respective semifinal matchups, it will be the third consecutive year in which the top two seeds meet in the Wimbledon final. Furthermore, it would be the first time in the Open era the same finalists would face off at the French and Wimbledon finals in the same season.

Nadal's opponent will be Baghdatis, who advanced to his second Grand Slam semifinal of the season by disposing of 2002 champion Lleyton Hewitt. In January, the Cypriot lost to Federer in the Australian Open final.

Baghdatis, who never had won a match at Wimbledon before this year, has saved his best tennis for the grand occasions -- 12 of his 25 wins this season have come at Grand Slam events. In the nine tournaments immediately after the Australian Open, the 21-year-old won consecutive matches just twice.

En route to the semifinals, Baghdatis has overcome some tricky grass-court players. In the third round, he knocked off two-time Wimbledon semifinalist Sebastien Grosjean. He then had little trouble handing crowd favorite Andy Murray a straight-set loss. Finally, after a hiccup in the second set against Hewitt, he won the next two sets to advance.

Baghdatis and Nadal have met just once, earlier this year on the hard courts of Indian Wells, where the Spaniard won in straight sets.