LONDON: Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal headline the title chase at Wimbledon where eight-time champion Roger Federer, the world's top two players as well as valuable ranking...
LONDON: Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal headline the title chase at Wimbledon where eight-time champion Roger Federer, the world's top two players as well as valuable ranking points will all be missing.Djokovic is bidding for a seventh title at the All England Club to move level with US great Pete Sampras.Nadal, fresh from a 14th French Open victory and a record-extending 22nd major, is halfway to the first men's calendar Grand Slam in more than half a century.
The 36-year-old Spaniard arrives at Wimbledon with the Australian and French Opens secured.He is halfway to becoming only the third man — and first since Rod Laver in 1969 — to complete a calendar Grand Slam.Nadal has endured a bittersweet relationship with Wimbledon.Two titles have been accompanied by three lost finals as well as injury-enforced absences in 2004, 2009, 2016 and 2021.
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