Wimbledon, Sinner dominates Djokovic and flies to the final with Alcaraz. "It is fantastic to have achieved this result"

Jannik Sinner dominated a Novak Djokovic not in his best form and won for the first time in his career the final at Wimbledon, the only Slam in which he had not yet reached it. With Djokovic, it ended 6-3, 6-3, 6-4 in less than two hours, under the eyes of a legend like Bjorn Borg (a man who racked up five consecutive wins here, from '76 to '80), seated in the royal box. Jannik is the second Italian in history to reach the final at Wimbledon, after Matteo Berrettini in 2021 (in the women's, Jasmine Paolini did it last year). On Sunday, Carlos Alcaraz awaits him.

The match was one-sided. The first two sets went quickly, a double 6-3 in which Sinner was almost perfect and unplayable on serve (he only let his opponent score six points on his serve). Confident, asphyxiating from the baseline, the world number one brought home the first set in 33 minutes, the second (in which he even had a set point on 5-2) in 36 minutes, without Djokovic ever really getting into the match. The Serb couldn't hold the exchange, after four or five shots he missed and when he tried to drop to the net to evade the pressing, Sinner beat him with a pass.

Before the third set opened, Djokovic called for the physiotherapist, then began with a blaze, supported loudly by the crowd: he went ahead 3-0, had a 4-0 ball that he did not convert, was caught 3-3 and then overcame 5-3, while he now appeared physically exhausted, no longer able to counter the steamroller on the other side of the court. There were 36 winners for the world number one (27 for Nole) and just 17 free errors (against 28 for his opponent).

"It's incredible, I can't believe it. It was the tournament I watched as a kid on TV, it's amazing. I know how much work we do with my team. My dad and my brother are here, it's great to have achieved this," were Sinner's first words in the on-court interview. "I think Nole wasn't well at the end, he was injured with Cobolli. I tried to stay calm and play the important points as best I could, I'm happy with the performance and we'll see what happens in the final. I am growing on all surfaces, that is important for me. When I started on grass I was struggling a lot, now I am more comfortable. The challenge with Alcaraz? "I don't know what to expect, you saw the last final," he smiles. "It's a great honour to share the court with Carlos, we push each other to the limit every time. He is a reference player for me, we all agree that it will be a good match. I don't know if we can do better than Paris though...", when Jannik lost after five and a half hours of play and three wasted match points.

Alcaraz, the defending champion and in search of a hat-trick (he had also triumphed in 2023), won in four sets (6-4, 5-7, 6-3, 7-6) against Taylor Fritz, 27, beaten last year in the Laver Cup and in 2023 in Miami. The American squandered two consecutive set points in the tiebreak of the fourth set and came back from 6-4 down, despite having his serve in his favour. But the Spaniard is known to raise the bar when the points count.