Federer breezes into semi-final of Swiss tournament

Top seed Roger Federer eased past Nicolas Kiefer 6-3 6-2 on Friday to secure a semi-final place in the Davidoff Swiss Indoors event.

The defending champion made much lighter work of Kiefer than he had last Saturday in the Madrid semi-finals, when the world number one eventually prevailed 6-4 6-4.