Simply Sublime! Jannik Sinner vs Novak Djokovic final set replay | The Championships 2025

In a world of pain in all sorts of ways. Serving to start this third set. 15 up. 13 up. Oh! You don't get a run when you serve so it's been pretty effective with it so far. You get a lead and just try to get in Sinner's head. He's never been in a final here. Getting ready to reveal that somehow. He's done that to many opponents over the years. Excellent serving to hold easily. Here's a good number for you. Yannick Sinner's first serves. Djokovic has only got 10 of 32 of them back into play at all and there's the serve quality of Yannick Sinner. Previous rounds down at 8.1 average in the championship of all players 7.9 so yeah it's on fire today. Surprised it was only slightly above average leading into this. 15 up. You're just watching a move across the court there John. Chasing that one down. Exactly that's what I was looking to see. That first step was. That looked like your typical Djokovic move. No attempt to get back in the court. That change of direction I think might be a major issue. Hollering away in the in the shade at this end. The sun at the moment shines only on one man in center court. Yannick Sinner continues to boss things. There's something for him and his followers. Approach actually. It's just a better shot executed by Djokovic there. Guessed right. I haven't seen a whole lot of those yet. 30 old. 13-14. There they are. To be an easy game all of a sudden Sinner with a wild miss and Djokovic might be on to something here. First signs of some positive energy. A really loose game by Sinner. Thank you. Djokovic and the crowd into this. Just watching him even there though in winning that point. Just wincing a little bit at the end. Starting to feed a little bit off it. Coming in quite a bit. Good success at net so far. That's still a concern. 30-15. Should have known better than to count this man out too quickly. 40-15. Moves back to his chair. Incidentally just to state how rare that breaker serve was for Djokovic against Sinner and there in his last three four meetings going back 12 sets he'd only broken the Sinner serve once in those 12 sets coming into this match. That's how well Sinner has been serving against this man and certainly today about the breakthrough in this third set for Djokovic. Very surprising that at 30 love up Sinner played that game as poorly as he did considering how well he's playing. Just shows you that in a best of five almost inevitable there'll be some ebbs and flows and he just allowed that's this great champion into this match. Get some belief. Get some energy. Get some hope from the crowd. Well if it is to go the distance it is going to be very very hard work for Novak Djokovic because of the temperature. They're all used to playing in temperatures like this and and indeed warm up but it's a very still sort of suffocating air in centre court and we are a few miles away to central London in this famous southwest corner where the Yannick Sinner is on south but a breakdown in this third set. Forehand winners have been few and far between you see tricky for the players might have affected Sinner previous game when he dumped serve that shade into the sun vice versa new lease on life pity out of nowhere that forehand make a huge impact completely has taken the momentum and flipped in on it's upside down whoa good sign for Djokovic even though he lost that point the forehand starts to click he's you can feel he's much more confident in it seems to be more confidence movement ever since the trainer came by and worked on it that he'll oh he's just lost his first serve in this game as well 30 40 it's a point for double break he's only had one chance so far and took it yes very deliberate it takes a lot of time between serves Djokovic looked to be trying to rush him early in the match let him play at his pace didn't work so now he's slowed down trying to make all the adjustments on that forehand the first couple sets he couldn't miss now he's having some issues not helping matters for him the hole for Yannick Sinner continues to maintain hope in this third set double break would have been over and out just about that's amazing listening to the crowd getting behind Djokovic and Sinner being Djokovic in style he's also having to deal with not really having the favors of center court here as Djokovic had to do so many times almost thrived in that environment Djokovic he's been wanting love for a long time out there he's getting it now Sinner had to deal with that type of crowd in the French solidly behind Alcaraz so he's been there and done that as well love 15 significant factors so far as those errors on the forehand side looks like he looked like he had righted the ship he's going to get there but he can't execute skins the knee 15 hours that's a slight scratch extraordinary it's a tough shot to try to execute 15 30 looks like he lost it in the sun huge point as well now 15 30 well he had points for for love but now two points for sinner to get back on cell a huge break for center a huge game messy game from Djokovic and again those break points to have that double break for love my serbian is not what it was but we need an ai app to come through so that it immediately translates for us what he's saying to his team up there obviously frustrated he was so close to getting the double break things were starting to click and then all of a sudden he throws in a lemon you know on his serve i think that's what he was saying that was a lemon he was saying yeah back to the drawing board yeah but again that's not from that position at three love from having those break points to get four love that's not normal Novak Djokovic play that's what we're seeing today it's uh it's superb from Yannick Sinner but Djokovic it's not the relentless creature he has been for so many years still on serve in this third set but what a boost for Yannick Sinner 15 glimpses of we know he can still do how many times have we seen him dig even deeper brush off a bad thing be able to get back to business laughing as he hits it he knows he's straight again 15 oh i don't know how many grand slam semifinals there will be in the future for Djokovic and so often he converts them into finals seems to be a more problematic as he's running for him to stop and push back into the court seems reluctant to do it if you don't have that you're going to struggle you know it's just that spring back off that side 14 15 again three games old that's that little momentum shift like the way of Djokovic seems to have once more swung the way of Yannick Sinner still on serve in this third set just leaving some number crunching for you again the top spin rates dropped off considerably today for Djokovic he's trying to make an impact and go flatter harder spin up and he just gives up on that point yeah that is telling that point there he did that the 40 15 point when Sinner was serving that says a lot oh even in someone is mentally strong as Djokovic that is part of his mind which must be not quite conceding just thinking this is not happening for me today the body's not responding well he's turned back time for years seems to have caught up with him today this set this set from that position where he very nearly had a four love lead perhaps three four two break points for Yannick Sinner Yannick Sinner no mercy for a man who is suffering today in form and perhaps in fitness and again you go back to that just at the very end of that match against Flavio Caballi in the quarterfinal where he fell and he didn't practice yesterday and we wondered if that was just a little bit of I don't know cardiology or whatever it might be that he he was fine but he he's certainly been out of sorts today we'll give credit to Yannick Sinner though because he is playing I hit a couple a dry spell for a couple games but for the most part he's looked incredible and he's taking it to Djokovic which gets in your head and then seeps into your body and makes those injuries feel even worse you feel the age he's all the above and Sinner just a couple games away from his first Wimbledon final yeah and again you go back to that match against Gregor Dimitrov that extraordinary match where Dimitrov was two sets up and he's just strained something in his pec couldn't play on Sinner was spared and here he is with the new balls sounding at 4-3 dominating 15 even in hitting that winner there's a rather resigned look from Djokovic as if there'll be too many more of those out 15-0 30-15 40-15 is this unsparing level from Yannick Sinner and again doesn't really hunt it down Djokovic has the air of a beaten man even on serve here you you fear for him and that would be a cruel symmetry to the scoreline trying to stay in it at 3-5 15 left for a guy who relishes playing in big matches and he doesn't want to stop playing almost like he doesn't want to be there yeah but he wants to pay his respects to this young kid it's going through the motions Djokovic at the moment just hoping against hope 15 really we know how this ends he knows he knows the movement's not there from Djokovic but Sinner has been so so impressive throughout this match wow that's wide break himself from Djokovic seems a long time ago no more than a flicker in this match from the great champion a point for a first Wimbledon final for Yannick Sinner once more match point once more the defiance Djokovic wants to extend his stay a little longer very strange you've been uh watching commentating on that man for many many years and it's it's sad to see we have to pay tribute to Yannick Sinner of course because whatever the struggles for Djokovic today and he's not himself Yannick Sinner has showed why he is the world number one and what a final it's going to be because i think we can call it that now i'll give it a couple minutes but it's amazing that he's gotten this far this long at this level yeah and continuously produced so this is sort of like human okay we were waiting when is this going to happen where age is going to catch up to him father time is undefeated right um and that's what we're seeing right now time yep time is called an outcome these two men separated by 14 years and about and uh a huge golf in class today again Djokovic with his physical struggles but serving for a place in the final well everybody's time comes and goes even the the greatest champions and Yannick Sinner now for the final a lot of thinking he's going to be doing over the course of the next month or so and there it is now Djokovic leaves the court leaves the stage to Sinner it is time for the champion and this was not his day and i wonder how many more days there will be for Novak Djokovic sad at times to watch but again everybody has their time and however much of a part the injury played Yannick Sinner Carlos Alcala they are the new wave they are the main men absolutely they won the last six uh we're gonna pay our respects obviously for the great Novak Djokovic who battled despite being somewhat limited obviously as i just said he's gonna have a lot of thinking he's gonna be doing over the course of the next month or so does he look at it like look the reason i wasn't able to actually because i was injured is it just a combination there's my body and let's give it give it up for Novak he leaves center court and you always wonder at this stage of a career how many more days there will be will there be more days in center court next year another year on it's the first time ever looked at him and thought i'm not sure if he's going to come back that's obviously a decision it's up to him and he can play it for as long as he wants but i don't know if he can accept being you know a notch or two below these guys and maybe someone else by the time next year comes around