Heading to Kyrgios, a record Djokovic

With Andy Murray coming out, re-engaged in the cause of tennis but already a long way from the great Murray, British tennis clings with more enthusiasm than arguments to the possibilities of Cameron Norrie and the passing momentum of Emma Raducanu.

Since she was crowned at the US Open last year, in a journey of extraordinary youth, she has not raised her head on the court – yes in the commercial field, contracts rain and rain – while he, an athlete project and ultimately a tennis player, tries to break through on the main floor of the circuit taking advantage of the lack of definition of some of the tenants.

Good competitor Norrie, southpaw and warrior, rough rival.

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swiped Novak Djokovic and that's it: the party is over.

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Almost like a tradition, the Serbian (2-6, 6-3, 6-2 and 6-4, in 2h 34m) gave him ground to play around and then clipped his wings to prevent the afternoon from being complicated.

Two days before he had given two sets to the Italian Jannik Sinner, but he did not want to risk more than necessary and cut to the chase.

Nole thus landed in his eighth Wimbledon final – one more than Arthur Gore, Boris Becker or Pete Sampras – and continues to threaten the records of the king of the house, the Swiss Roger Federer.

Twelve finals accounts for Basel, owner of eight trophies and increasingly surrounded by Belgrade, who if he manages to beat Nick Kyrgios on Sunday will raise his seventh scepter.

Yesterday a sigh of hope lasted in the Cathedral.

As for Djokovic (35 years old) he took to printing rhythm and directing, the story is over.

A lot of will on the part of Norrie, but that was the thing.

The opposite would have been quite a surprise, as there is only one British tennis player who has beaten the Balkan in the tournament and, in fact, in any Grand Slam;

It was Murray in the 2013 final, a course after having swiped the US Open.

Nole entered another final, and there are already 32 on the big stages;

that is, more than any man.

She left behind Federer (31), distanced herself from Nadal (30) and is only behind Chris Evert (34) and Serena Williams (33), at the height of Martina Navratilova.

Another sidereal record.

"Thank you very much, but the work is not finished," says the former number one, just one rung from glory after one of the most difficult stretches of his career.

It is already known: non-vaccination, Australia, detention and deportation;

then, getting on a moving train again, a balsamic title in Rome and a disappointment in Paris, where he promised and crashed against the immense terrestrial Nadal.

Now it's his turn to dance with Kyrgios, the hurricane bad boy who is facing the opportunity of his life: first grand final and in the garden that he likes so much, where his vertigo tennis and his technical

can knock down anyone if he competes fully performance.

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