NEW YORK -- Top seed Roger Federer survived a stirring fightback from twice champion Andre Agassi to reach the semi-finals of the U.S. Open for the first time, squeezing through 6-3 2-6 7-5 3-6 6-3.

Swiss great Federer holds the record for most hard-court majors won consecutively and he achieved the feat from 2005 to 2007. He defeated Andre Agassi in the 2005 US Open final and followed it up ...

This was Federer’s first singles title on US soil, after having lost his only previous final at the 2002 Miami Open to Agassi. In his 85th career singles final, this was only the second time ...

Graf retired in 1999 following a glittering career in which she won 22 singles Grand Slams and tasted Miami Open victory on five occasions. So when Agassi beat Federer he drew level with his wife ...

However, his first-round flame out at the Olympics left him short on achieving the rarest feat in tennis: the “Agassi Slam," which Andre Agassi accomplished with this US Open title in 1999.