Defending champion Novak Djokovic barely reached the semi-finals of the Wimbledon tennis tournament. The top seeded Serb was 0:2 behind Jannik Sinner before he turned up the heat and after a good three and a half hours he still won 5:7,2:6,6:3,6:2,6:2. In the women’s category, Tatjana Maria sensationally reached the round of the top four, she defeated Jule Niemeier 4:6,6:2,7:5 in the German duel and now meets the Tunisian Ons Jabeur.
Djokovic was meanwhile played against the wall by the only 20-year-old Italian, number 13 in the world. After a nervous start and a 1:4 deficit, Sinner won twelve of the following 15 games. But he couldn’t keep up the high speed while the previous one was too passive Djokovic increasingly determined the rallies. The young South Tyrolean was quickly behind with a break in sets three to five and finally missed his first semi-final entry at a Grand Slam tournament.
“He was the better player in the first two sets. I freshened up and had a little motivational talk with my reflection in the mirror,” he said Djokovicabout a crucial toilet break. The 35-year-old is in the semi-finals for the eleventh time at Wimbledon, where he meets Cameron Norrie on Friday.
