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Wimbledon 2006

Bjorkman celebrates his win with the crowd.

"I just wanted to stay out there and hug everyone," he said.

The Swede is the oldest man to reach a Wimbledon semi-final since Jimmy Connors in 1987.

Bjorkman, whose only previous grand slam singles semi was at the US Open in 1997, won the finely balanced first set 7-3 in the tiebreak.

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