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No. 1 seed Jannik Sinner defeated No. 7 seed Novak Djokovic 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 to reach a second consecutive Wimbledon final on Friday, setting up a title match against Alexander Zverev on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The Italian was in complete control despite a tight opening: locked at 4-4 in the first set, Sinner won the next two games to take it, then carried that momentum through two more comfortable sets. He was never broken in the entire match, saving the solitary break point he faced \u2013 in the third set \u2013 while breaking Djokovic once in each set to complete a clean sweep.<\/p>\n
Sinner paid tribute to his opponent afterward. \u201cPlaying against Novak \u2013 you know what he\u2019s showing, it\u2019s an inspiration, not only for you guys but also for the new generation,\u201d he said in his on-court interview. \u201cHe\u2019s still doing it. It\u2019s amazing as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sinner\u2019s dominance showed across the stat sheet. He finished with 40 winners to Djokovic\u2019s 26, committed 15 unforced errors to the Serb\u2019s 23, and did not double-fault once across three sets, against three from Djokovic. He won 103 of the match\u2019s 184 points, a share of 56 percent that barely wavered from one set to the next.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday I was just unable\u201d, Djokovic said. \u201cI didn\u2019t have time to really regroup and reset. He was just at cruising speed and I couldn\u2019t catch him. Losing in straight sets against the best player in the world, okay \u2013 it is what it is, it\u2019s the reality you have to accept. Game-wise I wasn\u2019t extremely happy; like in Australia, I felt like I played on a higher level overall throughout the tournament than here. Here I kind of struggled to find that A game.\u201d<\/p>\n
Back-to-back Wimbledon finals<\/p>\n
Sinner pointed to his serve as the key adjustment after his Australian Open semifinal loss to Djokovic earlier this year. \u201cWe always have very tough matches, and the last one he won was in the semifinals in Australia, so I tried to make a couple of adjustments,\u201d he said. \u201cHe\u2019s, from my point of view, the best returner we have in the game, so I tried not to mix up my patterns. That helped me a lot today.\u201d<\/p>\n
The result extends Sinner\u2019s head-to-head lead over Djokovic to 7-5 and levels their Wimbledon series at 2-2. It is his seventh Grand Slam final \u2013 extending his own all-time record for most major finals reached by an Italian player \u2013 and makes him just the 18th player in the Open era, and the third active player after Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz, to reach back-to-back Wimbledon finals.<\/p>\n
I knew mentally that today I had to raise my level, which I\u2019ve done, so I\u2019m very happy.<\/p>\n
Asked whether his game was where he wanted it to be, Sinner pointed to the challenge of adapting through the tournament. \u201cEspecially coming here, I feel like every round is different because of the grass \u2013 it\u2019s changing a lot,\u201d he said. \u201cI knew mentally that today I had to raise my level, which I\u2019ve done, so I\u2019m very happy. I\u2019m happy to be back in the final, and we hope for a good final on Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n
For Djokovic, the defeat pushes back his bid for a 25th Grand Slam title and a record-extending 39th major final until at least the US Open in September, with no further Slam chances before then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wimbledon \u2022Semi-final \u2022 Completed See draw No. 1 seed Jannik Sinner defeated No. 7 seed Novak Djokovic 6-4,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":794343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-794342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}