Carlos Alcaraz can continue to dream of the third Wimbledon victory in series. In the semi -finals, the Spaniard Taylor Fritz from the USA defeated in a highly competitive game: 6: 4, 6: 7, 6: 3 and 7: 6 (8: 6), the defending champion kept the upper hand on Friday afternoon (July 11th, 2025).
In the final on Sunday (live ticker at Sportschau.de) Alcaraz now meets Jannik Sinner from Italy, who then gave Altstar Novak Djokovic from Serbia a lesson.
Fritz collects the first break right away
Alcaraz started extremely focused in the duel on the Center Court, served Winner and Asse in series and immediately made the first break. Before Fritz found his rhythm to some extent, he was 0: 2 behind and initially no longer recovered.
The Spaniard occasionally sprinkled and volley, remained mercilessly effective on his own serve and already had the first set ball with 5: 3 and premium. The American recovered from that, but after the 5: 4 Alcaraz brought his serve game and thus the first set to zero over the finish line.
Fritz plays at eye level
But Fritz learned from this round, increasingly varied the pace and presented the man from El Palmar in Murcia with significantly more problems. At 4: 3, the Californian had a break chance that Alcaraz was still able to fend off.
But when Fritz then led 6: 5, the back-to-back champion of 2024 and 2023 showed a little nerves for the first time: slight error with one blow to the power edge, then powerless against a forehand bullet-and at 0:30 underlief Alcaraz. Another forehand point followed, zero the game slipped – Fritz clumped his fist and had put the sentence compensation.
But Alcaraz did not falter. He spotted his program down calmly and unimpressed, served powerfully, sprinkled grandiose stops and always predicted what his opponent was up to. At 1: 1 in the third set, he turned up briefly, developed three break balls in a series and used the first with a remarkable praise for a network attack.
Once even four aces in a row
Fritz also had his strong moments again and again, even made a service win with four aces, three of which he banged exactly on the line. But in the end, Alcaraz looked as if that day couldn’t upset him. In the tie break of the fourth set, he chose the first mini break in 1-1, but Fritz came back again and suddenly had two set balls in 6: 4 lead. But he missed both, and after a volley error at 6: 6, Alcaraz then had a match ball, which he also used directly to the baseline with a hard forehandball.