Djokovic rejoins Federer, Nadal in top 3 after winning Wimbledon 2018
Tennis | July 16, 2018 21:06 ISTThat trio has combined to win 10 of the past 14 championships at Flushing Meadows: Five for Federer, three for Nadal, two for Djokovic.
That trio has combined to win 10 of the past 14 championships at Flushing Meadows: Five for Federer, three for Nadal, two for Djokovic.
Djokovic sent the strongest signal yet he is back at the top of tennis by reaching his fifth Wimbledon final with a 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (9), 3-6, 10-8 victory over rival Rafael Nadal.
They had played on and on, through 6 1/2 hours of ho-hum hold after ho-hum hold, during the second-longest match in the history of a tournament that began in 1877.
Rafael Nadal won 7-5, 6-7 (7), 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 on Wednesday and earned a trip to the semifinals at the All England Club for the first time since 2011.
Roger Federer, Serena Williams and Rafael Nadal have reached the quarter-finals of Wimbledon.
The top-seeded Halep's exit means only one of the women's top-10 seeds remains in the tournament, Pliskova, which leaves Serena Williams as the big favourite to win her eighth Wimbledon title.
Cilic's early exit opens up Federer's path to the final even more, with No. 8 Kevin Anderson the highest-seeded player left in the Swiss star's half of the draw after No. 6 Grigor Dimitrov lost in the first round.
Federer and Nadal will resume their famed rivalry at Wimbledon.
Rafael Nadal returned to the top spot in the ATP world singles rankings released on Monday while Switzerland's Roger Federer came in second.
After winning a record-extending 11th French Open title earlier this month, the Spaniard withdrew from the Queen's Club Championships, a key Wimbledon tune-up played in London from June 18 to June 24.
After playing 27 matches on clay the past two months, the 32-year-old Spaniard feels he needs time to recover.
Federer or Nadal have won each of the past six major tournaments, equalling their second-longest stretch of dual dominance, their other six-slam streak came way back in 2008-09.
Rafael Nadal and Simona Halep became the first pair of ATP and WTA No 1s to both win the title at Roland Garros since Jim Courier and Monica Seles in 1992.
Nadal led by two sets plus a break early in the third, when the middle finger on his racket-wielding left hand was cramping so badly he couldn't straighten it.
Nadal's form never wavered, though, and soon enough he was celebrating his 17th Grand Slam title overall, second among men only to Roger Federer's 20.
The 32-year-old Spaniard is 10-0 in finals in Paris, winning the trophy every year from 2005-08, then again every year from 2010-14, then again in 2017.
The No. 1-ranked Nadal compiled a 35-20 edge in winners while making only 19 unforced errors on Friday.
Del Potro is playing in the French Open semi-finals for the first time in nine years.
With his good run at Roland Garros, Del Potro is now guaranteed to return to the top four in the rankings for the first time in more than four years.
With a 6-3, 6-2, 7-6 (4) win on Monday against up-and-coming German player Maximilian Marterer, Nadal moved into the quarterfinals and above Jimmy Connors on the all-time list of match-winners at Grand Slams.
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