Quick Served: Wimbledon Day 14
Men’s final recap and Bracket Challenge winners
Context-free soundbite: “I don’t care if you hold 87 times against your cat. It doesn’t make sense.”
The theme of this 149th edition of Wimbledon: resilience. Andy and JW found new reasons to admire Jannik Sinner as he defended his Wimbledon title against Alexander Zverev’s nearly flawless strategy and revealed his sterling character in the media rounds.
This isn’t goodbye. We’ll be back Tuesday with the Wimbledon recap show. Meanwhile, please submit your questions now for our next Q&Andy guest, actor Jake Johnson (Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, New Girl, The Dink).
Winner, Winner: Sinner Repeats
Jannik Sinner [1] def. Alexander Zverev [2] 6-7, 7-6, 6-3, 6-4
Alexander Zverev got seven sets closer than ever to a Wimbledon title. But Jannik Sinner got to 87 sooner—87 consecutive service holds against Zverev. Despite the German’s otherworldly serving performance (76% first serve in, average speed 127 mph/206 kph), Sinner managed to produce five break points and edge out the Roland Garros champ, who might have been hampered by a knee injury he sustained by falling on his kneecap in the third set.
🎤 Alexander Zverev
“I overextended my knee again, similar to two years ago. Then I was struggling to push off on the serve a little bit, so my serve speed went down. But everything else was fine. I was moving fine from the baseline.”
Sinner didn’t lose serve in either the semi or the final (the first to do so since Roger Federer in 2003, via OptaAce), and he faced just one break point in each match. In the final, he had 58 winners to 25 errors, compared to Zverev’s 49-to-45 mark.
🎤 Jannik Sinner
“If he serves like this, it is so tough to get into the rally. I had my chances in the third set in the beginning, was love–30, where I made a couple of wrong choices, but that’s tennis because you cannot be perfect for four hours, five hours. Honestly, I just tried to accept the situation and be as present as possible with the right attitude, and I think this today was the biggest key.”
Wheelchair Winners
The three finals today completed a No. 1 sweep of the six wheelchair events.
Tokito Oda [1] defeated Alfie Hewett [2] 6-1, 6-1, winning his 10th Slam at just 20 years old. It’s also his sixth consecutive Slam. He will be going for the Grand Slam at the US Open. Oda’s all-white wheelchair was the best fashion statement of the tournament. He has promised a new design next year.
In quad singles, Niels Vink [1] defeated Sam Schroder 6-1, 6-3 for his fourth consecutive Wimbledon, fifth consecutive Slam and 10th Slam overall. After match point, he pulled a Marta Kostyuk and did a front flip out of his chair.
In women’s doubles, singles champ Yui Kamiji and Zhenzhen Zhu beat the defending champs, Li Xiaohui and Wang Ziying 6-4, 7-5.
Bracket Challenge Winners
Thanks to everyone for playing the Served Bracket Challenge! Congratulations to all the winners!
ATP Bracket: Adnan and Cktennis (tie)
WTA Bracket: Numberial
Combined: Numberial
Served Team Winners
ATP Bracket: Andy
WTA Bracket: JW
Combined: Blair
We’ll do it again at the US Open!
Bracket Challenge Calendar Slam
We are keeping track of total Bracket Challenge scores across all four Slams in 2026. With three in the books, here are the new standings.
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Jannik Sinner’s Slam count
Jannik Sinner had a sampler platter of eye-popping stats today, including his 87 consecutive holds against Alexander Zverev, his 100th Slam win and his perfect streak of service holds in the semi and final. Andy chose to honor this milestone to put it into historical context as Sinner continues to evolve into one of the game’s greats. Listen to Andy’s perspective below.
Tiebreak Trivia
Alexander Zverev was trying to become the first man in history to win his first and second Slams back to back. Name a woman who did it.
Quick Hits
Kristina Mladenovic and Guo Hanyu, the No. 10 seeds, won their first Wimbledon title over Gabriela Dabrowski and Luisa Stefani, the No. 2 seeds, 6-3, 7-5. It is Mladenovic’s 10th Slam overall and Guo’s first.
JW’s 50 Parting Shots from Wimbledon on Sports Illustrated is the best way to deal with the Slam hangover.
He also reported on Serena and Venus Williams’s summer schedule.
Marcelo Arevalo is the first player from El Salvador to win a Wimbledon title (mixed doubles with Jelena Ostapenko).
Roberto Bautista Agut called it a career this week at the Copa del Rey, the oldest tournament in Spain (an invitational and exhibition). Take a bow.
Jacob Fearnley and Tatjana Maria won the ATP Challenger/WTA 125 Newport Hall of Fame Open today. Fearnley saved six match points against Adam Walton and had an epic turnaround, 5-7, 7-6, 6-4
Linda Noskova, the day after. Next up: the Champions Ball. ⬇️
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It feels hard to believe that Serena’s comeback was the same tourney!! It feels so long ago already.
Noskova’s shots were unreal. If hyper-athletic Muchova can’t get to them, I don’y know who can. It was a privilege to finally catch a full match of Linda’s and Karolina performed beautifully, too, even if she came up one set short.