Carlos Alcaraz breaks from the start in the third set against Daniil Medvedev… Follow the semi-final

“He is an extraordinary player”, declared Daniil Medvedev, in a press conference, about his future opponent in the semi-finals of Wimbledon, the world number 1 Carlos Alcaraz. The Russian and the Spaniard compete to try to climb, Friday July 14, in the final of the London Grand Slam for the first time in their career, and challenge the master of the place, Novak Djokovic.

By dominating Denmark’s Holger Rune in the previous round, Carlos Alcaraz won the first Wimbledon quarter-final contested between two players under the age of 21 in the Open era, becoming the youngest player to reach the final four. in London for a while… Novak Djokovic, in 2007.

For his part, the Russian Daniil Medvdev had to work to dismiss the American Christopher Eubanks, sensation of the tournament. The world number 3 thus reached the semi-finals of Wimbledon for the first time in his career – the sixth time in a Grand Slam, after the US Open (2019, 2020, 2021) and the Australian Open (2021, 2022) .