The match between world no.2 and the defending champion Roger Federer and world no.5 Rafael Nadal was a test case for both the players:
For Nadal it was his fitness test on hard court and for 31 years old Federer it was test of his age and the ability to defend his title at Indian Wells.
But the match proved too much one sided as Nadal, who recently recovered form his knee injury, beat the defending champion and 17 times Grand Slam winner just too easily: 6-4, 6-2. But then Federer wasn't in form as he was suffering from back injury.
The match was a blockbuster as it was the first time in ATP Tour history that two players with 28 Grand Slam titles between them were playing each other.
After the match, Nadal showed his amazement on how Federer just gave it away in the second set:
"I played a fantastic first set," Nadal said. "The second set was strange. Roger didn't fight as usual. Probably he had some problems and he didn't feel enough comfortable to keep fighting."
Nadal now faces world no.6 Tomas Berdych in the semis, who beat Kevin Anderson 6-4, 6-4 in the quarters.
In the Ladies camp, the quarterfinal results on Thursday were as under:
8-Caroline Wozniacki (Denmark) beat 1-Victoria Azarenka (Belarus)WO
4-Angelique Kerber (Germany) beat 7-Samantha Stosur (Australia)WO
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