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Former World No.1 Novak Djokovic has won a fourth trophy at Wimbledon, his first Grand Slam title in more than two years, dominating South African Kevin Anderson (8th) in three sets 6-2, 6-2, 7-6 (7/3)) Sunday.
The 31-year-old Serb, who will advance from 21st to 10th place on Monday, now has thirteen major trophies in his list. he has enriched in London after two difficult years, marked by poor performances, a loss of confidence and a recalcitrant injury to the right elbow.
The reborn Djokovic, already crowned in 2011, 2014 and 2015, did not have need to force his talent too much to subdue the giant Anderson (2.03m), except in the third act where he had to dismiss five set balls.
For two rounds, the 32-year-old South African competed his second major final after that of the US Open last year (lost to world No. 1 Rafael Nadal), did not hold the dista nce in the exchanges.
He seemed visibly dulled by the all-time semifinal won Friday against American John Isner (10th) after 6 h 36 min. of play (26-24 in the 5th set). Already in the quarter-finals, he had to fight for more than 4 hours to raise two sets of handicap against the defending champion Roger Federer, dismissing a match ball.
Djokovic, he had certainly had to return to the short Saturday to complete a sumptuous semi-final against Nadal, completed after 5h15 of fierce fight (10-8 in the 5th set). But before the epilogue on the Short Center, the Serb had spent nearly 5:30 less than his opponent on the lawns of the All England Club.
– "Djoko" to a length of Sampras –
The former N.1 World breakaway input and mastered the powerful services of his opponent who managed to spend only two aces in this first set while he had accumulated 172 before the final, an average of 7 per handle.
Treated in the right arm after eight games (6-2), the South African started the second set as he started first, giving in on his first play of service. Djokovic took the lead in the lead (5-1) and just had to break a break point, the first of the match for Anderson, when serving to lead 2 sets to 0.
Much more legs in the 3rd set, Anderson then played eyes in the eyes with "Djoko", getting even two first set balls at 5-4 and three others at 6-5. On one of them, his powerful return failed a few inches from the baseline. He had missed his chance …
In the tie-break, Djokovic made the difference. With this thirteenth major trophy, the Serb outpaced the Australian Roy Emerson (12) and is now just one of the third highest-scoring Grand Slam champion, American Pete Sampras (14). He remains at a good distance, nevertheless from his rivals Nadal (17) and Federer (20).
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