Wimbledon men's final: Score, live updates as Jannik Sinner, Alexander Zverev face off
Zverev was on the verge of some break points by winning the first two points of the game, but Sinner responded by dotting some lethal serves and benefiting from a bad miss down the line on 15-30. Zverev let out a shout of frustration after that shot.Still, this has been a lot more competitive so far than the past few Sinner-Zverev meetings.65 holds in a row for Sinner. However, the second point, the only extended exchange of the game, was interesting.Sinner has been very happy to go forehand to forehand in the past against Zverev, who has one of the best backhands in tennis. However, Sinner settled into backhands… until going down the line and watching Zverev crack a big forehand that set him up to win the point. Not insignificant when wondering how the rest of this match will go.It's not just that Sinner has won nine times in a row. It's that Zverev hasn't broken him in their last six matches. Sinner has held serve 65 games in a row against the German, and three of those six matches saw him not even give him a break point.Zverev has looked better than ever on grass this tournament, but that's a huge difference in levels to change on what has historically been his worst surface.You might have heard something about how Sinner has defeated Zverev nine times in a row, which is why the ATP No. 1 is such a heavy favorite over the new ATP No. 2. Their last match in particular was an outright demolition, in which Sinner took the Madrid final 6-1, 6-2.Sinner won on 93% of his first serves and 71% of Zverev's second serves, with 19 winners to five (5) unforced errors. After the match, Zverev was so dejected he started pontificating on his place in tennis, saying, "I think there's a big gap between Sinner and everybody else right now. It's quite simple."It will be on Zverev to prove Zverev wrong today.The words "If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two impostors just the same," taken from a classic Rudyard Kipling poem, are famously displayed above Wimbledon's players entrance.They were tailor-made for Linda Nosková on Saturday.The 21-year-old went from dominance to collapse to her first Grand Slam title, surviving a comeback from Karolína Muchová in a 6-2, 5-7, 6-3 win. It looked like it was going to be easy, then it became the most stressful match of her young career.Nosková did it against her Olympic doubles partner and friend, or "ex-friend" as Muchová joked after the match. The veteran has alternated between success and injuries in her career at 29 years old and is still waiting for her own Grand Slam title despite two finals appearances. No one can say she didn't fight in this one, though.The winner was guaranteed to make it three Czech women's champions in the past four years at Wimbledon, joining Markéta Vondroušová in 2023 and Barbora Krejčíková in 2024. It's also the nine straight Wimbledon with a new ladies champion, an unprecedented streak.The win additionally bumps Nosková from No. 12 in the world, where she was before the tournament, to No. 7 in the WTA rankings, just ahead of last year's champion Iga Świątek. Muchová, meanwhile, becomes No. 6.Read more here.The 2026 Wimbledon men's semifinals wound up being two straight-set affairs.One was predictable, with No. 2 seed Alexander Zverev taking care of wild card Arthur Fery. The other was generational, with Jannik Sinner snuffing out what might have been Novak Djokovic's last best chance to win a 25th Grand Slam.It will be Sinner-Zverev in the final on Sunday, pitting the defending Wimbledon champion against the most recent Grand Slam champion, the ATP No. 1 against the now-ATP No. 2.After his win, Zverev was asked which of Sinner and Djokovic he would like to play. He jokingly responded, "I hope I can play a junior, that would be great." Instead, he will get a player who has defeated him nine straight times. Many will be expecting a 10th, but the German has already got one monkey off his back this year.Read more here.
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