Wimbledon champion Rafael Nadal will face Nicolas Kiefer for the third time in four months in the Toronto Masters final as the unstoppable Spaniard aims for a third Masters tennis title of the year.
Second seed Nadal, playing his first event since beating Roger Federer for the title at the All England club, moved to his ninth final of the season with a straight sets semi-final win over eighth-seeded Andy Murray of Scotland.
Unseeded Kiefer rolled back three years of injury and poor form, ending the nine-match win streak of Frenchman Gilles Simon with a 3-set-three-hour semi-final struggle.
Nadal has moved even closer to Federer in the rankings race after the Swiss world No.1 crashed out this week in the second round to Simon.
31-year-old Kiefer will be playing in his first final in three years and hoping to lift his first title since 2000.
