2022 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles
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Three-time defending champion Novak Djokovic defeated Nick Kyrgios in the final, 4–6, 6–3, 6–4, 7–6(7–3) to win the gentlemen's singles tennis title at the 2022 Wimbledon Championships. It was his seventh Wimbledon title and 21st major singles title overall.[1] Djokovic became the fifth man in the Open Era to record a streak of at least four consecutive titles at one major.[2] By reaching his 32nd men's singles major final, he surpassed Roger Federer's all-time record.[3] Djokovic also became the first player (male or female) to win 80 matches at all four majors with his first-round win over Kwon Soon-woo.[4] Because no ranking points were awarded for the tournament in response to its banning of Russian and Belarusian players, Djokovic dropped out of the top five in ATP rankings after winning the tournament.[5]
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Champion | Novak Djokovic | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Runner-up | Nick Kyrgios | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Score | 4–6, 6–3, 6–4, 7–6(7–3) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Draw | 128 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Seeds | 32 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kyrgios became the first unseeded man to reach a major final since Jo-Wilfried Tsonga at the 2008 Australian Open, the first Australian man to reach a major final since Lleyton Hewitt at the 2005 Australian Open, and the first Australian man and unseeded player to reach the Wimbledon final since Mark Philippoussis in 2003.[6]
Rafael Nadal was attempting to complete the third component of a prospective Grand Slam,[7] but withdrew before his semifinal match against Kyrgios due to a torn abdominal muscle.[8] It was the first time a man had withdrawn from a Wimbledon semifinal or final since Frank Shields in 1931.[9] Cameron Norrie became the fourth British man in the Open Era (after Roger Taylor, Tim Henman, and Andy Murray) to reach the semifinals.[10] It was the first time two left-handed men (Norrie and Nadal) had reached the semifinals since John McEnroe and Goran Ivanišević in 1992, and to the semifinals of any major since Nadal and Jürgen Melzer at the 2010 French Open.
This was the first edition of Wimbledon to feature a champions[lower-roman 1] tie-break (10-point tie-break), when the score reaches six games all in the fifth set,[11] and the third edition to feature a final set tie-break.[lower-roman 2] Alejandro Davidovich Fokina defeated Hubert Hurkacz in the first round in the first main-draw 10-point tie-break at Wimbledon.[12] It was also the first Wimbledon since the introduction of the ATP rankings in 1973, and the first major since the 1999 Australian Open,[lower-roman 3] where both the reigning world No. 1 and No. 2 (Daniil Medvedev and Alexander Zverev, respectively) did not compete. Medvedev was prohibited from playing due to his Russian nationality, while Zverev had an ankle injury.[13] This marked the first edition of Wimbledon since 1998 not to feature record eight-time champion Roger Federer, resulting in his dropping out of the ATP rankings for the first time since 1998 (Federer would retire from professional tennis later that year).[14] Feliciano López made his 81st main-draw major appearance, tying Federer's all-time record.[15] John Isner broke Ivo Karlović's world record of 13,728 career aces on the ATP Tour in his third-round match against Jannik Sinner.[16] Stan Wawrinka was attempting to complete the career grand slam, but lost to Sinner in the first round.