World No. 2 and defending Champion Novak Djokovic has defeated Italy’s Jannik Sinner 6-3 6-4 7-6 to book a place in Sunday’s finals.
Djokovic who was playing a record 46th Grand Slam semi finals started the game against Sinner, who was playing in his first Grand Slam semi finals in Superb fashion, breaking his young opponent’s serve early on in the first set, to set the tempo for the match.
There would not be a repeat of last year’s quarter finals where Sinner was 2 set to love up before Djokovic eventually dug in to win the match in a five set thriller.
The Serbian would not look back from that point on as he closed out the first set 6-3.
Jannik proved more resilient in the second set but was never going to trouble a rampant Djokovic who broke his serve once again in the second set to claim the set 6-4.
From 2 set down, it was always going to be a near impossible task for Sinner to stage an unlikely comeback, but the Italian held his ground in the third set to force a tie breaker.
Tie break, Djokovic’s time! The Serbia started the tie break on a back foot trailing the Italian 3-1 early on, but the Serb did what he always did best, winning the tie break to wrap the game up in straight set to reach record equalling 35th Grand Slam titles.
Djokovic remains on course for a record tying 8th Wimbledon title and a record extending 24th Grand Slam titles for Sunday’s Finals where he awaits the winner of the second semi finals between 1st seed Carlos Alcaraz and 3rd seed Daniil Medvedev.
