Djokovic reaches Wimbledon final, claims No.1 ranking
July 2nd, 2011 - 1:10 am ICT by IANS
London, July 1 (IANS) Serbian Novak Djokovic reached his first Wimbledon final with a 7-6(4), 6-2, 6-7(9), 6-3 victory over France’s Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in three hours and seven minutes here Friday.
The victory will move Djokovic to No.1 position in the world rankings ahead of Rafael Nadal.
Djokovic thus continued his astonishing run this year that puts him to 47 wins against the only loss to Roger Federer in the French Open.
He gave a power packed performance to beat Tsonga, who caused the biggest upset of the tournament beating Federer in the semifinal. The only time he was in trouble when he was broken early in the very first game. But he soon tightened his service and came back hard on Tsonga.
Against someone who had dropped just four service games in five matches so far, Djokovic broke six times and only faltered in the third set tie-break when he missed two match points that would have given him a straight-sets win.
“I’ve been working all my life for this,” Djokovic said.
“I’ve been dreaming about playing the finals of Wimbledon since I started playing tennis when I was 4. To be able to be there on Sunday will probably be the best feeling.”
“It’s hard to express your emotions in a very short time but hopefully some more celebrations are about to come,” Djokovic said.
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