Carlos Alcaraz moved inside one victory of a 3rd consecutive Wimbledon championship and sixth Grand Slam title total at age 22 by defeating Taylor Fritz 6-4, 5-7, 6-3, 7-6 (6) on Friday.
The No. 2-seeded Alcaraz takes a 24-match profitable streak into the ultimate Sunday, when he’ll face No. 1 Jannik Sinner or 24-time main champion Novak Djokovic.
Alcaraz beat Djokovic within the 2023 and 2024 title matches on the All England Membership and is 5-0 to this point in main finals. That features a five-set comeback win over Sinner on the French Open a month in the past.
The fifth-seeded Fritz, the runner-up to Sinner finally yr’s U.S. Open, was making an attempt to turn into the primary American man within the Wimbledon remaining since Andy Roddick misplaced to Roger Federer in 2009.
Fritz had two probabilities to pressured a fifth set in opposition to Alcaraz, main 6-4 within the fourth-set tiebreaker. However Alcaraz on the subsequent 4 factors to complete off the win, then rocked again on his heels, unfold his arms huge and screamed.