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Nick Kyrgios returns a shot to Novak Djokovic during their match at the 2017 BNP Paribas Open tennis tournament at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden in Indian Wells, California, USA, 15 March 2017. Federer, who beat Rafael Nadal on Wednesday, advances into the semifinals where he will face Jack Sock or Kei Nishikori.

Kyrgios announced his arrival on the world stage with a thunderous fourth-round win over Nadal in 2014 on Wimbledon’s hallowed centre court before upending Federer on clay in Madrid the following year. (That’s not normal! that’s faster than any Djokovic first serve! you’re supposed to play it safe.) Never seen this many second-serve aces before, and the Australian notched 14 aces total, a feat best captured in a sequence that left me slack-jawed, at 1-2 in the second set. So I take it. Svetlana Kuznetsova, of Russian Federation, returns a shot to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, of Russian Federation, at the BNP Paribas Open tennis tournament, Wednesday, March 15, 2017, in Indian Wells, Calif. “I remember the first game I broke him, and I said “come on”, pretty loud, just to show that … he knew I would compete for every point that day”.

“He’s one of the toughest rivals in the world, he has a great serve and is very aggressive”, Nadal said.

“Even I was at 13th a year ago, but I wasn’t in a good place mentally at all”.

Kyrgios combined brilliant serving and relentless aggression en route to a 6-4, 7-6 (3) triumph that ended a 19-match winning streak for three-time defending champion Djokovic in the first Masters tournament of the year.

“He’s the greatest player of all time”, Kyrgios said of Federer on Wednesday.

“The run was unbelievable”, said Djokovic, who won at Indian Wells in 2008 and 2011 before going on his roll from 2014-2016. The Indian Wells draw did bring a difference to this narrative of concurrence, by pitting them together in the so-called quarter of death, but the potentiality of them actually playing each other still remained tentative at best.

“I think nobody cares who wins anymore”, Muguruza said, as quoted on tennisworldusa.org. “I can tell you that”, Federer said in his post-match press conference. I tried to serve quicker. “It was just a good, honest win”.

The victor of Friday’s match between Jack Sock and Kei Nishikori will face Federer in the next round.

In their closest matches, it’s been a question of contrasting styles and Nadal knowing Federer’s weak points, like his backhand. The 35-year-old Swiss has an elephantine memory of his matches, but even he might find it hard to remember the last time he managed to score such a comprehensive victory over Nadal.