Carlos Alcaraz dominates Daniil Medvedev and goes to the final at Wimbledon

Carlos Alcaraz dominates Daniil Medvedev and goes to the final at Wimbledon

It will be Carlos Alcaraz who will challenge Novak Djokovic on Sunday for the Wimbledon men’s singles title. The Spaniard, world No. 1, beat Russian Daniil Medvedev, No. 3, in the second semifinal in an hour and 49 minutes of play with a “periodic” score of 6-3 6-3 6-3. On Sunday, in addition to that of the Championships, there will also be that of No. 1 in the ATP rankings.

Only one break point in the entire first set and it is the one that decides the partial: Alcaraz exploits it and then quietly closes the file by holding serve at zero. The 20-year-old Murcian cancels a break point in the second game of the second set and from there on the match becomes his monologue for over a set.

In fact, Alcaraz breaks serve from the Russian in the third and ninth games of the second set and then again in the second game of the third set. But here the match becomes crazy: on 3-1 there are four consecutive breaks, the last one in favor of Alcaraz who in the ninth game closes on the first match point with the craziest point of the whole match and conquers his second Slam final after the one last US Open won over Norwegian Casper Ruud.

Carlos Alcaraz is the fourth Spaniard after Manuel Alonso in 1921, Manolo Santana in 1966 (who won) and Rafael Nadal, the only one in the Open Era, five times between 2006 and 2011, to reach the final at Wimbledon. With Djokovic the precedents are one win each, both on clay, the Murcian winning last year in the semifinals of the Madrid Masters 1000 in a third-set tie-break, the Serb in this year’s Roland Garros semifinal in four sets.