Djokovic, who won 6-4 3-6 7-6 (11-9) 3-6 10-8 in five hours and 16 minutes, will face Kevin Anderson on Sunday. They will resume at 1pm, before the women's final between Serena Williams and Angelique Kerber, which is scheduled to start at 2pm.
With the increasingly physical nature of rallies, the advances in training and nutrition that help extend careers, and the dominance of a certain trio of all-time talents Federer has 20 Grand Slam titles, Nadal 17, Djokovic 12 it's been hard for any youngsters to elbow their way to the top.
Kevin Anderson overcame marathon man John Isner to reach the Wimbledon final after the longest semi-final in grand slam history.
While Nadal hasn't really been off the scene at all, Djokovic is ending a string of five straight majors in which he didn't play a semifinal match - his longest such stretch since 2006.
The match was not pretty but it was enthralling, Isner leading by two sets to one after three tie-breaks before 32-year-old Anderson made a break of serve count to level up. After the break, Anderson closed out the match on his serve 26-24, after more than six and a half hours. Djokovic finally claimed it on his second chance.
"I'm overwhelmed", said Djokovic, who is bidding for a fourth championship at the All England Club and 13th Grand Slam title overall.
"For the first time in my life I have someone screaming, 'Daddy, daddy, '" the champion said, as the camera zoomed in on his son and wife clapping in the crowd.
The final scorecard was 6-4 3-6 7-6 3-6 10-8 in Djokovic's favour.
The final set of their Friday epic lasted nearly three hours.
So there's not much better an authority to weigh in on whether it's time for fifth-set tiebreakers at all Grand Slam tournaments. "I go for holidays proud of the things that I'm doing." .
Kevin Anderson of South Africa, right, meets John Isner of the United States on the court after defeating him in their men's singles semifinal match at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships, in London, Friday July 13, 2018.
"I don't know what I expected from this tournament".
Only one match at the All England Club has been longer: Isner's 2010 first-round victory over Nicolas Mahut, which went more than 11 hours over three days and finished 70-68 in the fifth. "I think I can keep doing damage here", the No. 9 seed was quoted as saying afterward on the ATP World Tour's Web site.
"If one person can't finish the other off before 12-All, then do a tiebreaker there". Still, Isner did jokingly ask chair umpire Marija Cicak at one point during the last set whether they could play a tiebreaker.
That total was more than double the number he has had in any match against Nadal (11, on two occasions).
"Obviously trying to get sort of food and nutrition back in my body is a challenge because you definitely don't feel like eating, but you have to somehow force it down". He reached last year's US Open final, is 6ft 8in and to use an Americanism (in honour of Trump's visit) he can take the racket out of your hand.
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