Two-time Defending Champion Carlos Alcaraz Beats Taylor Fritz To Reach The Wimbledon Final

LONDON — Carlos Alcaraz moved wrong 1 triumph of a 3rd consecutive Wimbledon title and sixth Grand Slam title wide astatine property 22 by defeating Taylor Fritz 6-4, 5-7, 6-3, 7-6 (6) connected Friday.

The No. 2-seeded Alcaraz takes a 24-match winning streak into nan last Sunday, erstwhile he will look No. 1 Jannik Sinner aliases 24-time awesome champion Novak Djokovic.

Alcaraz hit Djokovic successful nan 2023 and 2024 title matches astatine nan All England Club and is 5-0 truthful acold successful awesome finals. That includes a five-set comeback win complete Sinner astatine nan French Open a period ago.

The fifth-seeded Fritz, the runner-up to Sinner astatine past year’s U.S. Open, was trying to go nan first American man successful nan Wimbledon last since Andy Roddick mislaid to Roger Federer successful 2009.

Fritz had 2 chances to unit a 5th group against Alcaraz, starring 6-4 successful nan fourth-set tiebreaker. But Alcaraz connected nan adjacent 4 points to decorativeness disconnected nan win, past rocked backmost connected his heels, dispersed his arms wide and screamed.