Defending champion Roger Federer will contest the final of the Hamburg Masters Series here for the fifth time in his career after seeing off Italy's Andreas Seppi in today's first semi-final.
The world number one was again untroubled, as he has been throughout this tournament, when he recorded a 6-3 6-1 win over Seppi, ranked 43rd in the world, who was competing in his first Masters Series semi-final.
The Italian had his chances, but Federer never allowed him to settle and having dominated throughout the second set he broke the Italian's serve for the third and final time to claim the win in 79 minutes.
The Swiss master and four time winner here plays the victor of the show-down between clay-court King Rafael Nadal and Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic in Sunday's final.