![]() ![]() Yes indeed, Djokovic hits lines service and forehand for deuce, only to err on the forehand again and hand Berrettini another shy! Berrrettini takes control of the rally with a ringing forehand, Djokovic immediately sticks one of his own on the baseline, and when invited to the net plays a clever pat across the face of it. but Berrettini challenges and it caught the outside of the line! Here we go, 30-all, and have a look! Djokovic sends a backhand wide, just his seventh unforced error in eight games, and out of nowhere Berrettini has break-back point – good luck with that, old mate. He just can’t be wasting opportunities like that, when he’s in the rally, but a wild forehand puts Djokovic two points away from the set.Then another forehand, at the end of a long rally, flies wide. *Djokovic 5-4 Berrettini Now then! A colossal inside-out forehand sets Berrettini for the clean-up, which he mass-murders into the corner for 0-15. ![]() Good luck dealing with that, Matteo old mate. AND HAVE A LOOK! Berrettini hammers a forehand approach to the backhand side but on the slide and splits, Djokovic sends a riposte dipping into the laces that Berrettini can only net! That is unbelievable behaviour, it really is! And following a second serve, Berrettini finds himself exchanging backhand slices – a place in which he does not want to be – he nets and that’s the break! Djokovic points to his head, and feels he’s competing as he needs to now. Anyhow, Djokovic quickly makes 0-30 but then sticks a backhand down the line just long – you’d have bet on him making that and can only bunt back a big serve, allowing Berrettini to – eventually – finish the point with an overhead. I often wonder if tennis would be better with noise during the points – on the one hand, there’s something dramatic about silence, but on the other, noise adds a different variable, especially given the proximity of fans to players. and there it is! A return onto the line, a big forehand to wrest control of the rally, an exchange of backhand slides – how apt – and Berrettini nets! Novak Djokovic wins his sixth Wimbledon title, joins Federer and Nadal on 20 majors, and needs one more for the grand slam! THIS IS GREATNESS!ĭjokovic (4)6-7 6-4 2-1 Berrettini* The crowd start cheering for the players before quietening as Berrettini serves. but it doesn’t matter because he swats a sumptuous forehand winner down the line! He has stones for aeons and I’m already excited to see how he does in New York, but a netted forehand gives Djokovic a third go at the title. This time, Berrettini doesn’t get a first serve. But he’s still a live dog, pushing to 30-15 only to net a forehand, and might this be the end? Ach, it might! With most of the court to aim at, Berrettini sticks a forehand unnecessarily long and Djokovic has championship point! But Berrettini is a double-hard expletive, finding a serve, a forehand and a volley that makes deuce! Djokovic, though, knows it’s on and dictates the next point, skipping to the net to finish with a high backhand volley that raises championship point number two. 18.36 CEST Djokovic beats Berrettini (4)6-7 6-4 6-4 6-3 to win his sixth Wimbledon title and his 20th major, his third of the year!ĭjokovic (4)6-7 6-4 6-4 6-3 Berrettini* Berrettini somehow looks confident and resigned as he rattles down a serve to make 15-0 – he knows he’s played alright today and he knows there’s not loads he can do beyond that. Of course, he’s then asked about tonight’s Euro final because what could be more relevant, and says he’s supporting football. He ends by thanking his family and his team for sacrificing for him, noting that it’s an individual sport but a collective effort – they see a different him on a daily to the one we’re seeing now, and he appreciates “their devotion”. He’ll give it a shot, he’s in great form, and though he tries to downplay it, you know he knows it’s there for him. The grand slam, done just once in the open era, is now on the agenda and he can “definitely envision that happening”. In the first instance, he he lost most of his big matches to them, but at the end of 2010.start of 2011, something changed for him, “beginning an incredible journey that is not stopping here”. When asked about drawing level with the other two dons, he says that it means none of them will stop, then says Federer and Nadal are the reason he is where is is, making him realise what he needs to do physically, mentally and tactically. ![]() Winning Wimbledon was always his dream, and he keeps saying it but that it’s important to - as a seven-year-old he constructed a replica of the trophy he’s holding now out of the materials he could find knocking around. “It was more than a battle,” says Djokovic, who congratulates Berrettini and says it’s not great to lose finals but agrees this is the start not the end and laughs at the power of his forehand.
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