Wimbledon 2018. Djokovic in the final after a game of more than five hours with Nadal

Serbian Novak Djokovic, 21st ATP, on Saturday scored his best result this year, winning the match against world leader Rafael Nadal and qualifying himself in the final at Wimbledon 2018.

This was a new marathon match at Wimbledon after the semifinal between John Isner and Kevin Anderson. Djokovic-Nadal won five hours and 15 minutes after being interrupted on Friday because of darkness. He ended with the score 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (9), 3-6, 10-8.

In the other semifinal, Friday, American Isner and South African Anderson played six hours and 36 minutes in the second longest match in the history of Wimbledon. Isner has a record of 11 hours and five minutes of play in 2010.

Djokovic and Nadal's showdown began Friday night but was stopped after three sets, being restarted and finished Saturday. On Friday, Njokovich and Nadal played for two hours and 54 minutes, until 23:03 local time, the game being then stopped to comply with the rules decided by the local authorities

Thus, in the final Djokovic will meet South African Kevin Anderson, world number eight, who beat Saturday in six hours and 36 minutes the American John Isner, the 10th ATP.

For Novak Djokovic will be the fifth final at Wimbledon, after 2011, 2013, 2014 and 2015 . The Serbian lost in last act only in the 2013 edition, ahead of the British Andy Murray

Anderson is the second Grand Slam final after the defeat in 2017 at the US Open ahead of Rafael Nadal

Novak Djokovic stated that the victory against him Rafael Nadal was won after playing the biggest match of his life. "It's hard to find my words, but I'm thinking of some of the times we went through to get here, I've suffered so much, there have been bad times, I think it was." the hottest match of my life, so big a fight! ", said Novak Djokovic at the end of the Nadal match in an interview with Eurosport, writes digisport.ro. "Everything was so balanced, the difference was small, I know that he was so close to victory." Djokovic and Nadal met 52 times, a record in men's tennis, and the overall score of the games won is slightly favorable to the Serbian: 25.

Serbian, sometimes no.1, had a bad time, since the middle of last year, because of health problems.He had to withdraw a little from the tournament, ran his elbow earlier this year and after recovering from the field, he did not get any outstanding results.

In the women's final at Wimbledon 2018, another former world No. 1 sportsman is back after an interruption of the competition, and also achieved the best result this year: Serena Williams plays against Germany's Angel Kerber Saturday, and she was No. 1

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