The 38-year-old record-Grand Slam winner may want to go into the final in London. For this he caught a hard opponent with Jannik Sinner. Follow the match here in the live ticker.
It is the biggest match in Wimbledon 2025 – and that in the penultimate duel of the tournament among men: Jannik Sinner meets Novak Djoković in the semi -finals. The current number one in the world against the record grand slam winner.
The 23-year-old South Tyrolean wants to go to the final of the most traditional major, the now 38-year-old Serb, on the other hand, preserved his chance of Grand Slam title number 25. And in the final on Sunday the next cracker is waiting: defending champion Carlos Alcaraz, who prevailed on Friday afternoon 6: 4, 5: 7, 6: 3, 7: 6 (8: 6) against the American Taylor Fritz.
Follow the top duel on the Center Court here live in the ticker.
1st set, 6: 3 – Jannik Sinner wins this first sentence. And that is completely deserved. Djokovic still looks strange. The first serve does not continue to sit – and even a good moment doesn’t help him. The Serbs succeeds in a stop: it opens the field nicely, leaves the ball into the free half, and Sinner comes too late. But then he ends up again on the net. In a very strong, long rally with numerous stops and lobs from both sides, Sinner also prevails, he currently finds an answer to almost everything that Djokovic offers him. It goes over a tie. And even after an ace, the “Djoker” cannot complete the game, lands on the net. Then a forehand flies into the side – and Sinner has his second breakball. He uses it – because Djokovic ends up again. That was a very strong appearance of the Italian in the first round, meanwhile his opponent already seems annoyed.
1st set, 5: 3 – Little moment of shock for Djoković, who stumbles into the ball while running to the ball. After a short moment, however, it goes on. With a forehand longline from Sinner. The Italian completes the game with a service winner and an ace. These are increasingly clear conditions here. And Djoković is now serving against the set loss.
1st set, 4: 3 – Djoković wrestles for control over the game. But Sinner surprises him with a forehand that he can only return online. Then Djoković is lucky that his stop is still rolling over the net-but Sinner reaches the ball and counters with a longline volley. Applause from the audience. The “Djoker” has to go through the second surcharge a few times in this phase. And does his game anyway-because Sinner ends up with a risky backhand longline in the end. He can still afford that at this time.
1st set, 4: 2 – It remains that the service games are quickly brought through in this early phase of the game. But: Sinner again wins one of the few lengths of Rally. Djoković can’t like that.
1st set, 3: 2 – But Djoković would not be Djoković if he weren’t right. Again he brings a service game to zero. So far, these are not long points for a match of this caliber that are played.
1st set, 3: 1 – Sinner tries to take control more and more. An ace, an impact winner, another ace, and it is already 40: 0. For the first time in this match, Djoković can shorten with a return. Then Sinner unexpectedly affects a double error. However, his opponent cannot benefit, Sinner brings his service with a winner.
1st set, 2: 1 – We have the first break of the game so early. Djoković is a bit short with a backhand, Sinner scores with a longline winner for 15:15. At 30:15 the first very strong rally develops, Sinner lets his opponent run a lot with sharp backhand cross beats, but is then lured by Djoković with a stop on the net-but the Italian counters with praise that Tweener von Djoković is running back-and Sinner has two break balls. He already uses the first because the “Djoker” gets stuck on the net with one fell swoop.