The defending champion, who has not lost here in four years and 20 matches, won 5-7, 6-2, 6-2, 6-4 for a place in Sunday's final against Novak Djokovic, whose earlier win over Jo-Wilfried Tsonga was a contest of higher all-round skills and thrills.
But there were no such inhibitions yesterday in a contest of the highest quality.
They won 4-6, 6-0, 10-6, in a contest of many highs and a few lows that lasted only an hour and a quarter.
True to his inventive nature, Kamen has indeed invented what he hopes will be part of the solution: a contest for high school students to build working robots that compete against one another in an annual contest.
Also of note: Generation Next, a contest for high school, college and university students who would like to pen plays or screenplays with GLBT characters or themes.
Few devices wrap up the torturous popularity contest of high school on film quite like the prom scene.
The Clippers came in fourth place (maybe the first time the team has finished so high in a contest of any sort).
Politics has become a contest of monomaniacs.
It's a contest of titans.
The race is a contest of contrasts.
