Fish stuns Federer in Indian Wells semis

INDIAN WELLS, California (Reuters) - Unseeded American Mardy Fish produced the biggest upset of the Pacific Life Open by crushing world number one and top seed Roger Federer 6-3 6-2 in Saturday's semi-final.

Fish, who had never beaten Federer in five previous meetings, outplayed the Swiss in a match lasting just over an hour to book a place in Sunday's final against third-seeded Serb Novak Djokovic.

Djokovic upset second-seeded Spaniard Rafael Nadal, the defending champion, 6-3 6-2 earlier in the day.

Ranked 98th in the world, Fish set the tone for the biggest win of his career by breaking Federer in the second game before sweeping through the opening set in 34 minutes.

With the 26-year-old Federer strangely out-of-sorts and Fish in prime form, the American again broke in the first and fifth games of the second before serving out to secure victory in the eighth.

(Reporting by Mark Lamport-Stokes; Editing by Ed Osmond)