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London, 15 July. – Serbian Novak Djokovic has no rival in South Africa Kevin Anderson and he has beaten 6-2, 6-2, and 7-6 ( 3) in two hours and 16 minutes, in an unequal final, to win the Wimbledon title for the fourth time and the fifth budding of His career.
Achiever at the All England Club before 2011-14-15, Djokovic already has 13 Grand Slam titles, the last since Roland Garros in 2016, and 69 in his total career, first this year after [19659003] After a major exhibition, although he had to record two set points in the tenth game of the third Lui Park and three others in the twelfth, all with their service, Djokovic showed his joy in an unusual way .
He knelt on the runway and then, after kissing his rival, he ate grbad blades on a runway where he had to leave the lane. last year in the quarterfinals when he lost to Czech Tomas Berdych, 7-6 (2) and 2-0, following a right elbow injury.
Djokovic is already a great American Pete Sampras, four Spanish Rafael Nadal and seven Swiss Roger Federer.
This victory carries a check of 2.2 million pounds ( 2.9 million dollars And Djokovic will return this Monday to 10 in the world, the highest since May of this year where he is fell to 22, falling in the top 20, for the first time in 11 years.
The Serbian became the lowest ranked champion to win the Croatian title Goran Ivanisevic in 2001, he was 125. And also the lowest in Grand Slam, from Argentinean Gaston Gaudio, then aged 44, who won Roland Garros in 2004.
The four titles of Wimbledon agree with Reggie Doherty, Rod Laver and Anthony Wilding.
His triumph gives him the right to return after his return with his long-time coach, Marian Vajda of Slovakia at the start of the clay season.Already with Vajda in his team has reached the half Rome finals, the third round of Monte Carlo, and the final of Queen's, already on grbad.
For the third time in a row, the men's final was closed with only three sets of fights, such as it was in 2016 with the British Andy Murray, champion against Canadian Milos Raonic, and the year last with Roger Federer against Croatian Marin Cilic, and as rivals the two men who went on the road (Anderson to Federer and Djokovic to Nadal) to those who organized the best of all time ten years ago.
Anderson, finalist in the United States Open last year, could not give more than himself. He won in the second round the Frenchman Gael Monfils in four sets, and for the first time he held two titanic fights, against Federer in the quarterfinals, raising a match point, and against the American John Isner, in these last two five-run duels
Against the American, winning the third longest match in the history of tennis, six hours and 30 minutes, and the longest ever played on the central court of Wimbledon.
Anderson had reached the final, without strength, with 21 hours and a minute of work, while Djokovic needed 15 hours and 34 minutes, five hours and 15 minutes (in two days) of them. against the Spanish Rafael Nadal in the semifinals.
bruised that at four in the morning from Friday to Saturday woke up with intense pain in his feet and had to call his physique, the Portuguese Carlos Costa, with whom he works for two years, to treat him for a hour and a half.
P But his pride and his dream of becoming the first South African to win the Wimbledon title, the second of this nationality to triumph at the Grand Slam (Johan Kriek at the 1981 Australian Open) ) and the second African to be imposed in the All England Club (Jaroslav Drobny, representing Egypt, won in 1954), served to overcome the pain.
And so he jumped on the track to fight an opponent who had defeated him twice in this tournament (2011 and 2015) and five of the six times they clashed.
Djokovic conceded few options. He won the match without doing anything special, saving all five set points in the third set, with just 13 unforced errors, breaking the Johannesburg giant (2.03 meters) four times, and without giving up his service on the 4 occasions
The central public, aware of the enormous wear and tear that Anderson had made to reach the final, was openly at his side, applauding with delight every point as if it were a feat , like when he realized, after one hour and 44 minutes of the match, his first break point (4-3 in the third set), or the 5 set points that he chained in total.
If he had won the final, Anderson would have become in the second player with the greatest age, 32 years and 58 days, he would have triumphed in a Grand Slam tournament since the beginning of the era. open, after the Spanish Andrés Gimeno, champion at 1972 Roland Garros, with 34 years and 206 days, the 15th player to win Wimbledon in his first attempt iva
The great Djokovic, already thinking of the US Open, stopped him. EFE.
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