As we all suspected, Wimbledon will get the men’s final the tournament and the fans deserve. The championship will get a decider that two players among the 128 who set out a fortnight ago believed was in their gift if they played to their potential and ranking.
Novak Djokovic, the world No 2 (for the moment), delivered the first part of the deal by systematically breaking down the precocious challenge of the young Italian Jannik Sinner 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (4) in two hours and 47 minutes. He was followed on to Centre Court by the youngest No 1 in the history of tennis, the 20-year-old Spaniard, Carlos Alcaraz, who made even shorter work of Daniil Medvedev in three embarrassingly one-sided sets.
