"It was a good old blowout." That was how Novak Djokovic, at 39, summed up one of the heaviest defeats of his career. On Wimbledon's Centre Court, defending champion Jannik Sinner gave the great Serb no way back, closing out a straight-sets win, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4. In the opening set the Italian dropped just four points on his own serve. He held firm behind a superb serve, projecting total control with aces clocked at 133 mph. He looked unbeatable.
While Djokovic wrestled with the fatigue that had built up over the fortnight, the 24-year-old world number one wrapped it up in just 2 hours and 20 minutes. "He was just a level or more better than I was," the Serb conceded at his press conference. On Sunday, Sinner turns to the defence of his title against Germany's Alexander Zverev.
