World No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz will play for a third consecutive Wimbledon title after a five-set semifinal win over American Taylor Fritz.
Alcaraz earned the 6-4, 5-7, 6-3, 7-6 (8-6) victory in a match that lasted two hours and 49 minutes.
Alcaraz showed a dominant serve throughout the contest, winning 88% of his first serve points and allowing Fritz to break him just once during the match. While the American’s break came at an opportune time and allowed him to win the second set, the Spaniard responded by winning a whopping 94% of his service points in the match’s critical third set.
Fritz battled hard in the fourth set and had multiple set points in their tiebreaker after earning a mini-break over Alcaraz. Nonetheless, the 22-year-old staved them off, re-took control of the match and battled back to win the set and deny the American his second-career major final appearance.
Now, Alcaraz will look to become the 17th man to win at least three Wimbledon singles titles in the event’s 148-year history. The 22-year-old will play the winner of the semifinal matchup between the top-seeded Jannik Sinner and No. 6 seed Novak Djokovic, who has won a record 24 men’s Grand Slam titles during his career.
Alcaraz has beaten Djokovic in the Wimbledon finals in back-to-back seasons but sports a career record of 3-5 against the Serbian star. The five-time major winner has had more consistent success against Sinner, logging an 8-4 career record against him and upsetting the top-seeded talent in five sets in the final at the 2025 French Open.
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Meanwhile, Fritz’s defeat continues the ignominious drought of American winners in the men’s singles draw at Wimbledon. Pete Sampras was the last American man to win Wimbledon. He did so in 2000, with a four-set win over Australian Patrick Rafter.
Since then, an American has only made the grass-court Grand Slam final three times, with the last being Andy Roddick in 2009. And no American man has won a major since Roddick’s victory at the 2003 US Open.
