{"id":138666,"date":"2026-07-12T06:31:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T12:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wimbledon-final-features-defending-champion-jannik-sinner-vs-french-open-winner-alexander-zverev\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T06:31:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T12:31:53","slug":"wimbledon-final-features-defending-champion-jannik-sinner-vs-french-open-winner-alexander-zverev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wimbledon-final-features-defending-champion-jannik-sinner-vs-french-open-winner-alexander-zverev\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon final features defending champion Jannik Sinner vs. French Open winner Alexander Zverev"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Jannik
Jannik Sinner of Italy eyes the ball as he prepares to play a forehand against Jan-Lennard Struff of Germany in their quarter-final men's singles match at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, Tuesday, July 7, 2026. (AP Photo\/Kin Cheung)<\/span>(AP Photo\/Kin Cheung)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

LONDON (AP) \u2014 It\u2019s a matchup of the top two seeds as defending champion Jannik Sinner<\/a> plays French Open winner Alexander Zverev<\/a> in the Wimbledon<\/a> final on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The top-ranked Sinner<\/a> is looking to bounce back from his meltdown at Roland Garros<\/a> and claim his fifth Grand Slam title.<\/p>\n

Zverev, who is ranked third but seeded second, is attempting to become the first man in the professional era (since 1968) to win his second major title at the next event immediately after his first.<\/p>\n

Sinner has won his last nine meetings with Zverev and 14 straight sets against the German.<\/p>\n

Sinner was eliminated in stunning fashion in the second round of the French Open, when he wilted in a Paris heat wave.<\/p>\n

Zverev\u2019s previous best performance at Wimbledon was reaching the fourth round three times.<\/p>\n

Clear skies and a temperature of 82 degrees Fahrenheit (28 Celsius) were forecast for the 4 p.m. (11 a.m. ET; 1500 GMT) start on Centre Court.<\/p>\n

Linda Noskova<\/a> beat Karolina Muchova in an all-Czech women\u2019s final on Saturday for her first Grand Slam title.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP tennis: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Alexander
Alexander Zverev of Germany serves to Arthur Fery of Britain during their men's singles semifinal match at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, Friday, July 10, 2026. (AP Photo\/Kirsty Wigglesworth)<\/span>(AP Photo\/Kirsty Wigglesworth)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Jannik
Jannik Sinner of Italy serves to Novak Djokovic of Serbia in their men's singles semifinal match at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, Friday, July 10, 2026. (AP Photo\/Brian Inganga)<\/span>(AP Photo\/Brian Inganga)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Alexander
Alexander Zverev of Germany celebrates winning a point against Arthur Fery of Britain during their men's singles semifinal match at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, Friday, July 10, 2026. (AP Photo\/Kirsty Wigglesworth)<\/span>(AP Photo\/Kirsty Wigglesworth)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Linda
Linda Noskova of Czech Republic poses with the trophy after winning against Karolina Muchova of Czech Republic in the women's singles final at Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, Saturday, July 11, 2026. (AP Photo\/Kirsty Wigglesworth)<\/span>(AP Photo\/Kirsty Wigglesworth)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jannik Sinner of Italy eyes the ball as he prepares to play a forehand against Jan-Lennard Struff of Germany in their quarter-final men's singles match at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, Tuesday, July 7, 2026. (AP Photo\/Kin Cheung)(AP Photo\/Kin Cheung) LONDON (AP) \u2014 It\u2019s a matchup of the top two seeds as defending champion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":138667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5734],"tags":[],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-138666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-associated-press"],"acf":[],"author_name":"Website Administrator","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138666"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=138666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}