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LONDON (AP) – Marin Cilic has gone from second place at Queen's Club 12 months ago to champion 2018. Now he wants to do the same thing at Wimbledon.
Croat, seeded, saved the match point by beating Novak Djokovic 5-7, 7-6 (4), 6-3 in the final on Sunday to win his second title at the tournament in West London.
Cilic was lagging behind a similar result in last year 's final, as he lost a match in a loss to Feliciano Lopez, before suffering a bigger disappointment by losing against Roger Federer in the Wimbledon final.
Cilic said that he "felt really confident about Wimbledon," which begins July 2nd. "Hopefully," said Cilic of a potential double triumph on turf. "You know, if these things go like this every time, that would be great."
Although it was Djokovic's first final in a little less than a year, Cilic faced a tremendous challenge as the Serb produced the kind of tennis that allowed him to play. #######################################>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 39, accumulate 12 Grand Slam titles.
After saving six break points, Djokovic hit with his first chance to clinch an exhausting first set of 67 minutes, before a setback in the second.
The three-time Wimbledon champion quickly lost an opportunity to escape before Cilic saves a match point at 4-5 and then gains six 4-1 points in the tiebreaker to tie the match .
Despite high temperatures, neither player has retreated into a decisive game, with Cilic finally getting the first chances to score points in the eighth game.
Djokovic saved the first but Cilic quickly gained a second with the shot of the match, a forehand dipping into the line, and Djokovic then tipped with a backhand backhand into the net.
Cilic's triumph in 2012 at Queen's Club came under bizarre circumstances while David Nalbandian was disqualified for injuring a line judge, but this time he finished in style, producing a service game without nervousness to seal the victory in less than three hours.
"I've felt that when I'm going to increase my level of service, I'm going to be the one who can even take control of the game," Cilic said.
Despite a rare defeat at home against Borna Coric in the final in Halle, Germany on Sunday, Cilic does not count on any slack on Federer's side.
"I think Roger's motivation level is slightly better and higher on Grand Slam tournaments," Cilic said, "and you can see that for so many years that he has shown the best tennis at the Grand Slam level. "
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