7th Wimbledon title, 21st major championship
Novak Djokovic (4th place, Serbia) has only one win left in the men’s singles championship for the 21st time in the major tennis tournament and four consecutive losses at Wimbledon (total prize money of £43.35 million, regarding 64.23 billion won).
Djokovic defeated Cameron Norry (12th place, England) 3-1 (2-6 6-3 6-2 6-4) in the men’s singles semifinal on the 12th day of the tournament at the All England Club in Wimbledon, England on the 7th (local time) He came back and made it to the finals.
Djokovic, who won men’s singles consecutively from 2018 to last year, with the exception of the 2020 tournament, which was not held due to the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19), is now close to winning his seventh Wimbledon title, including four straight victories.
In addition, he continued his 27-game winning streak at Wimbledon.
If Djokovic wins this tournament, he will increase the number of men’s singles wins at majors to 21.
In this category, it narrows the gap with Rafael Nadal (4th, Spain), who holds the record for the most with 22.
Nori, a British player, tried to win the championship for the first time in six years since Andy Murray (52nd) in 2016, but failed.
Djokovic will fight for the title with Nick Kyrios (40th, Australia), the ‘bad boy on the court’ on the 10th at 10 PM Korean time.
Djokovic seems to have an edge over Kirios, who had only advanced to the quarterfinals, with the best performance in major tournaments before this tournament, but in his career record, Kyrios leads by two wins.
However, both matches took place in 2017, five years ago.
Kyrios was supposed to face Djokovic’s rival, Nadal, in the semi-final, but Nadal withdrew due to an abs rupture and was lucky to advance to the final.
Kyrios is a player who has a lot of big and small accidents on the court because of his fiery personality that can hardly hold his anger.
He has been attracting attention as a ‘genius’ since he was young, but he mightn’t achieve the highest grades due to his fluctuating mentality.
Although his personality is still the same as he was fined twice in this tournament, he is evaluated to have matured a step further in terms of performance.
If Djokovic is a style that chokes opponents with tireless physical strength and tight game management, Kyrios is a player who shakes the opponent’s heart with a strong serve reaching 230 km/h and witty net play.
Djokovic lost the first set to his opponent in the semifinals following the quarterfinals once morest Yannick Sinaer (13th place, Italy) and won a comeback victory.
Djokovic was in most of the figures, including serve ace (13-7), first serve success rate (65%-57%), winner (38-33), unforced error (28-36), and total points earned (113-89). Overwhelmed Nori.
After the game, Djokovic said, “In the beginning, it was quite difficult because Nori dominated the game, but Nori gave me a present in the second set.
/yunhap news
