NewzVille Sports Desk
Jannik Sinner, the 23-year-old top seed, booked his ticket to Wimbledon final, his first with a dominant 6-3, 6-3, 6-4 win over the 38-year-old Novak Djokovic.
It took him less than two hours to move past arguably the greatest player ever to lift a racket and book his place in his first Wimbledon final. Now Sinner will face Carlos Alcaraz in the final.
“I cannot believe it,” Sinner said. “It’s a tournament I always watched on the television when I was young. I would never have imagined that I could play here in the final.”
“It was amazing. I know how much work me and my team are putting in. Today my dad and my brother arrived so it’s even more special.”
“From my side, I served very well today. I was moving much better today and I think we all saw, especially in the third set, that he was a little bit injured. But I tried to stay calm and play the best tennis that I can,” Ecstatic Sinner said after the match.
When he is been told that he was only the fifth man since 1995 to have reached the final of all four Grand Slams (the others are Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Djokovic and Andy Murray), he looked stunned again.
“Some good company,” he said. “It’s amazing. It shows I’m growing as a player on all surfaces.”
He could say that again. Sinner had to play the seven-time champion and the man who had beaten him twice on this very court before.
Sinner was still wearing the heavy strapping, covered by a sleeve, on his right arm to protect the elbow injury he sustained in the fourth round. Not that it seemed to be hindering him.
Djokovic, too, was under the scanner. Had he recovered from that fall in the last round? Apparently so. Sinner’s precision, pace and power left his opponent to hand him the match.
In the other Semi-final match Carlos Alcaraz won over T Fritz 6-4 5-7 6-3 7-6.
