{"id":170674,"date":"2026-07-10T20:38:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T18:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=170674"},"modified":"2026-07-10T20:54:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T18:54:32","slug":"sinner-ends-novaks-run-reaches-second-straight-wimbledon-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/sinner-ends-novaks-run-reaches-second-straight-wimbledon-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinner ends Novak&#8217;s run, reaches second straight Wimbledon Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Top seed Jannik Sinner defeated seven-time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wimbledon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wimbledon<\/a> champion Novak Djokovic in straight sets on Friday, winning 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 to reach The Championships final for the second year in a row.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Italian played a very solid match on Centre Court and sealed the victory after two hours and 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Sinner now leads their H2H record 7-5, while their Wimbledon record is tied at 2-2.<\/p>\n<p>Just three days after playing the longest Wimbledon quarter-final in history and a magnificent triumph against Felix Auger-Aliassime, Novak was unable to find his rhythm against an in-form Sinner.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian broke Djokovic&#8217;s serve once in each set, which proved enough for a convincing victory. The 24-time Grand Slam titlist had only one break point during the match, but failed to convert it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI was just half a step late basically in any shot. It\u2019s very simple as that,\u201d<\/strong> said Djokovic. <strong>\u201cHe was just a level or more better than I was. I was not sharp enough, not reactive enough, not balanced enough to play him. That\u2019s it. There was not much I could do on the court.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Statistics: aces (8-16), double faults (3-0), winners (26-40), unforced errors (23-15), total points won (81-103).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sinner will face Alexander Zverev in the final of this year&#8217;s Wimbledon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top seed Jannik Sinner defeated seven-time Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic in straight sets on Friday, winning 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 to reach The Championships final for the second year in a row. Sunday Final: Jannik Sinner &#8211; Alexander Zverev.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":170621,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101010469,101013247,101012193,101010433,101011896],"class_list":["post-170674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-great-britain","tag-london-en","tag-semifinal-en","tag-wimbledon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170674"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170684,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170674\/revisions\/170684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}