Latest Wimbledon result 4/7: Djokovic meets young talents
On the morning of April 7, ATP world No 3 Novak Djokovic beat Dutch tennis player Tim Van Ritovin 6-2, 4-6, 6-1, 6-2 to reach the quarter-finals of the 2022 Wimbledon Championships. It was also Serbia's No. 1 seed's 25th straight Grand Slam win and capped Van Ritovin's epic grass season-the 25-year-old had just beaten world number one Daniel Medvedev in the final at 'Hertogenbosch last month.
As a result, the 35-year-old general has a winning streak on the third-longest grass in history, surpassing legend Rod Laver (24) and behind Bjorn Borg (41), Roger Federer (40) and Pete Sampras (31).
In the next round, Djokovic will meet the seed No. 10 Jannik Sinner, the "prodigy" of the Italian felt ball village, instead of the No. 5 seed Carlos Alcaraz, the "prodigy" of Spain.
The draw seems to have set up the last eight quickly, and no matter what the outcome, Djokovic is still going to meet one of the best young talents in the world today.
Jannik Sinner vs Carlos Alcaraz has become a competition between the two youngest players in Wimbledon's second week since 1985, when Boris Becker 17 years old compared with Henri Leconte 21 years old.
In the end, Jannik Sinner defeated Carlos Alcaraz 6-1, 6-4, 6-7 (8), 6-3. At this point, the 20-year-old Italian tennis player became the youngest player to enter the Wimbledon men's singles quarter-finals after Australian bad boy Nick Kyrgios in 2014.
Surprisingly, Sinner had never won on the grass at Wimbledon before this year. However, he has made rapid progress since beating Stan Wawrinka, a close friend of Swiss legend Roger Federer, in the first round.
Meanwhile, Rafael Nadal was quick to admit he was wrong to try to swap with Lorenzo Sonego online in his final third-round victory. However, Nadal did not give a reasonable explanation for the online communication with Sonego.
At the press conference, the 36-year-old Spanish veteran publicly apologized: "First of all, I must admit that I was wrong. I shouldn't have told him online. So, I'm sorry. My mistake was there. I admit it, no problem."
In the third round of the women's singles, mother-of-two Tajana Maria made an excellent run into the last eight after beating former French Open champion Yelena Ostapenco 5-7, 7-5, 7-5. The 34-year-old German tennis player, who is currently ranked 103rd in the world, said: "How old or how many children are not a problem."
It was her first Grand Slam women's singles win since 2018. In fact, it was an incredible reversal as Tatjana Maria had to save a match point before taking on the 12th seed at Wimbledon in 2022.
Marie Bouzkova created another surprise when defeating French opponent Caroline Garcia 7-5, 6-2 to first attend the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam. "Moments like this are why we play tennis!", Czech player excitedly declared after the victory.
Next, the 66th rank player in the world will fight the No. 3 in the world ons Jabeur of Tunisia. Ons Jabeur has just had a hard victory over the Belgian representative, the seed No. 24 Elise Mertens 7-6 (9), 6-4.
