Nadal will have to play back-to-back days in the best-of-five set format, taking on Fognini on Saturday.
In that 2003 U.S. Open, he was down two sets to love and fought off a match point in a five set semifinal against David Nalbandian.
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Murray had five set points before Federer claimed his fourth Australian Open title on his third championship point as he forced his opponent to net a backhand return.
Murray saved five set points in the opener and came from a break down in the second set to register his 400th Tour victory in just over two hours.
It started with a semifinal run and a grueling, five-set, nearly five-hour loss to Djokovic in Melbourne, followed by his first final at Wimbledon, where he lost to Federer.
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Roddick is the 31st-ranked player in the world now, and it feels like a million years ago when he and Federer met in the 2009 Wimbledon final, a five-set epic strangely forgotten amid all the gargantuan five-setters in recent seasons.
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Karlovic broke his previous ATP record, but still lost in a gruelling five-set match to Stepanek.
In the Australian Open, he lost a heartbreaking five-set semifinal against eventual champion Novak Djokovic.
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The Nittany Lions also have five wrestlers set to compete for a title, including a surging Taylor.
In the fourth round, he won a five-hour, five-set match against Stanislas Wawrinka after trailing 6-1, 5-2.
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Ferrer was followed on court by Nicolas Almagro and John Isner who played out a thrilling five-set match.
Tsonga's win could hardly have been in greater contrast to Sunday's epic five-set first-round success against Daniel Brands.
But Janko Tipsarevic overcame Radek Stepanek in a five-set thriller 5-7 6-4 6-4 4-6 9-7 to level the tie.
After Jackson declared that he had no interest in directing five movies set in Middle Earth, del Toro was named his successor.
"The start of the match was pretty important, the first five games set the tone and boosted my confidence, " said Henman afterwards.
Yet he sounded remarkably upbeat after finally pushing Djokovic to the edge of defeat (they had never played a five-set match before).
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Despite the loss, Murray was upbeat about his performance in Australia, which included his first five-set victory over Federer at a major.
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"He hasn't quite figured out how to play five-set matches yet, " says Mats Wilander, the Swedish star who battled Mr. Lendl for years.
And Djokovic's finals appearance was already made possible, don't forget, by his salvaging four match points in a five-set quarterfinal versus Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
And that means getting professors to accept the product at no charge and to get it up and running after a five minute set-up.
He suffered a series of embarrassing losses, the worst of which was a five-set defeat by George Bastl in the second round of Wimbledon.
Stepanek followed up a fine five-set victory over Gustavo Kuerten at the Australian Open with a 6-4 6-3 triumph over the tournament's top seed.
Benneteau -- a winner over Federer this year and a five-set loser to the Swiss at Wimbledon last year -- was bothered by a leg injury.
Coming off two match points, five-time Open champion Roger Federer lost to third-seeded Novak Djokovic in a riveting five-set semifinal match, 5-7, 6-1, 7-5, 6-2, 7-5.
He will face Federer in the final for the third straight year, having lost in four sets in 2006 and a five-set classic 12 months ago.
Another home player in fine form was British number two James Ward , who took 10th seed Mardy Fish all the way in a gruelling five-set match.
His success in 2002 stemmed from a surprise semi-final appearance at the year's first Grand Slam in Australia where he lost to eventual champion Thomas Johansson in a five-set thriller.
Cilic, 21, toppled Roddick 7-6 (7-4), 6-3, 3-6, 2-6, 6-3, after the American battled with a shoulder injury for a large part of the grueling five-set, four-hour marathon match.
Russia called up Andreev to give regular doubles player Mikhail Youzhny more time to recover from a back injury sustained late in his five-set defeat to Ljubicic on Friday.
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