By Mark Staniforth, PA Sport

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Roger Federer will face Mark Philippoussis in the men's singles final at Wimbledon 2003 after both enjoyed crushing semi-final wins.

Philippoussis opened up by easily beating Tim Henman's conqueror - Frenchman Sebastien Grosjean - in straight sets.

And then Federer proved emphatically he has got the bottle for the big occasion by routing Andy Roddick to reach his first Grand Slam final.

Unseeded Philippoussis ended four years of injury torment to reach his first Wimbledon final.

The 26-year-old from Melbourne lived up to his reputation as a dark horse for the title to sink Grosjean in style.

And Philippoussis, who had to toil through five sets in each of his two previous matches, had it all too easy as he rushed through the first semi-final, wrapping up a 7-6 6-3 6-3 victory in four minutes under two hours.

The California-based Aussie, who spent two months in a wheelchair after a third knee operation in the summer of 2001, becomes the second unseeded finalist in three years and will fancy his chances of emulating the achievement of 2001 champion Goran Ivanisevic.

Philippoussis, a notorious slow starter, was quickly out of the blocks as he raced to his first Grand Slam final since he was runner-up to Pat Rafter in the US Open final in 1998.

He was assured on his own serve and, although he came up with just 11 aces to add to the 153 from his previous five matches, he allowed his opponent just two break points and averted the danger each time with booming serves.

He had the confidence to come to the net and relied more on brain than brawn against an opponent who was never able to settle.

It needed a tie-break to decide the opening set and Philippoussis never looked back after reeling off five straight points to take it 7-3.

He broke the Frenchman at the start of the second set and took full advantage of a second double fault from his opponent to achieve the all-important breakthrough in the eighth game of the third set.

Ever since he ended Pete Sampras' 31-match Wimbledon winning streak two years ago Federer has been earmarked as a star of the future - but had never gone beyond the last eight.

But here the 21-year-old Swiss finally shattered the doubts for good with a simply magnificent 7-6 6-3 6-3 win over the tournament favourite.

Right from the start Federer leapt aggressively upon the Roddick serve and flung back passing shots which left the American flat-footed.

Federer gave his opponent few glimmers of hope on his own serve and one hour and 43 minutes later Roddick - also still searching for his first Grand Slam final place - had been pummelled into submission.

Roddick will have rued his solitary set point chance in the first set tie-break when he hit a feeble forehand volley into the net.

Federer seized the set, escaped from his only two break points down in the first game of the second set, and from then on left Roddick choking in his dust.

The Swiss ace - winner of the pre-Wimbledon grass-court tournament in Halle - produced a majestic cross-court forehand to break Queen's champion Roddick for 2-0 and continued to serve out brilliantly to take the set.

Federer was showing no signs of the back injury which had hampered his progress during his fourth round win over Feliciano Lopez and at one point left his future participation in the tournament in doubt.

He out-aced and out-returned Roddick and left the coming American superstar looking frustrated and one-dimensional.

A poor Roddick back-hand into the net presented Federer with the break he needed in the fifth game of the third set.

And a succession of blistering passing shots brought up his first match points on the Roddick serve at 5-3.

Roddick summoned up big serves to save the first two but a wide forehand completed Federer's demolition job.