Overview
- Jannik Sinner beat Alexander Zverev 6-7(7), 7-6(2), 6-3, 6-4 on Sunday to retain the Wimbledon men’s singles crown and register his 100th Grand Slam match win.
- The Centre Court final lasted three hours and 46 minutes and was dominated by serving, with the pair combining for dozens of aces and few double faults.
- The match turned in the third set when Zverev slipped chasing a drop shot and appeared to hyper-extend his right knee, which observers say visibly slowed his movement thereafter.
- Sinner extended his head-to-head run over Zverev to ten straight wins and collected the reported £3.6 million winners’ cheque from a record Wimbledon total purse of £64.2 million.
- With Carlos Alcaraz absent through injury, Zverev will move to world No. 2 in the next rankings update and attention now shifts to the North American hard-court swing where Sinner will seek to carry his momentum into the Canadian Open and US Open build-up.