"I'll definitely play at least one in the next match. I'll put it that way. I enjoy playing it. You have to be in the right frame of mind. You have to be confident up there. Not that I'm not confident, but, I don't know, I'm just not feeling it quite yet.
"Maybe I'll just hit the practice courts and just do that tomorrow."
Then he accidentally delivered a brutal sledge to Courier and the player's of the four-time slam champ's generation.
"It's one point. Let's not get carried away," he said of his decision to try out the move in the semi-finals of a grand slam.
"One point's not usually going to decide a match any more. These days it's a lot of forehands. A lot of backhands. A lot of serves. A lot of running. It's not like it used to be."
Courier replied after a pause: "I understand, thankyou for that dig".
The peerless Swiss rode roughshod over Berdych, needing barely two hours to set up a last-four showdown on Thursday with world No.1 and defending champion Novak Djokovic.
Third-seeded Federer will be playing for a place in the title match in Melbourne for the first time since claiming a fourth trophy in 2010.
He should be bristling with confidence after breaking Berdych on five occasions and crunching 46 winners to romp into the Open semi-finals for the 12th time in 13 years.
- news.com.au
