Djokovic to Face Alcaraz for Olympic Gold Medal; Swiatek Wins Bronze Medal
Friday’s motion from the Olympic Video games noticed the completion of the lads’s semifinal motion and ladies’s bronze medal match.
First up, reigning French Open and Wimbledon winner Carlos Alcaraz dismantled Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-1, 6-1.
Needing one hour and 16 minutes to advance, Alcaraz hit 12 winners, two aces and broke serve on 5 events. Bettering to 4-3 towards the Canadian in lifetime conferences, Alcaraz will subsequent face prime seed Novak Djokovic for the Gold Medal match.
Djokovic, who has been visibly ailing all through his final two matches with a knee damage, wanted all his expertise to oust inform Italian Lorenzo Musetti 6-4, 6-2.
The Serbian legend will now play for the one main title that has alluded him for his unimaginable profession. Profitable each Grand Slam, Masters 1000 title and group occasion, Djokoivc is a Gold medal away from solidifying himself as the best male participant ever.
Alcaraz, who can be the youngest Gold Medal winner on the Olympic Video games, continues to boost the bar in males’s tennis. The Spaniard gained the pair’s most up-to-date encounter in the course of the Wimbledon finals, prevailing in straight units.
Swiatek Captures Bronze
World No. 1 Iga Swiatek salvaged her Olympic Video games by capturing the Bronze Medal on Friday. Defeating Anna-Karolina Schmiedlova 6-2, 6-1, Swiatek made up for her loss the Qinwen Zheng within the semifinals.
Saturday’s Gold Medal match will characteristic Zheng taking over Croatian star Donna Vekic.
Vekic not too long ago made the semifinals of Wimbledon and is presently ranked No. 21 on the earth.
Zheng, who reached the finals of the Australian Open in January, misplaced to Aryna Sabalenka in straight units.
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