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Patna : Top seed and defending champion Novak Djokovic, 32, Serbia, entered the final of Wimbledon Championships for the 6th time on July 12, 2019, night, beating World No 22 and 23rd seed Roberto Bautista Agut, 31, Spain, in the first semi-finals in four-sets at the Centre Court of All England Club, London. Winner of 15 Grand Slam singles titles Djokovic beat Agut 6-2, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 in the semi-finals in 2 hour 48 minutes. Djokovic now leads Agut 8-3 Head to Head.
Djokovic broke Agut’s service 5 times in the match while the latter could break his service just once in the second set. Four-time champion Djokovic won the first breaking Agut’s service twice. But, Agut, who was playing his first Grand Slam semi-finals match, won the 2nd set breaking Djokovic’s service once. But, Djokovic was all over Agut in the 3rd and 4th set. He broke Spaniard’s service once in 3rd set and twice in the 4th set. Agut had defeated Djokovic twice in 2019.
The Serbian fired 10 Aces in the match to 5 by the Spaniard. Djokovic won 5 games in a row in the match to 3 by Agut, who had reached QFs of Australian Open in January 2019.