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Carlos Alcaraz draws a crowd as the 20-year-old Spaniard warms up on the outside courts ahead of the Wimbledon final. It’s a breezy day again at the All England Club, although the wind is not as strong as it was yesterday for the women’s singles final. The gusts meant that the roof was closed on Centre Court, but it remains open for now ahead of Alcaraz against Novak Djokovic.

Alcaraz looked pretty nervous as he was warming up, as you might expect. Plenty of forehands and volleys were finding the net.

Great Britain’s Alfie Hewett is looking to win a first ever Wimbledon singles title. Alongside partner Gordon Reid, Hewett won the men’s doubles title yesterday but he’ll have a trickier time of things this morning.

Hewett takes on 17-year-old Tokito Oda from Japan. The teenager is a rising star in wheelchair tennis and will have a slight advantage going into the match having beaten Hewett at Roland Garros just a few weeks ago.

The players are out on the court and are going through a few warm-ups.

The emotions on Centre Court were very different for Ons Jabeur yesterday who held back tears as she received her runners-up plate and a consoling hug with the Princess of Wales.

“Obviously she was very nice,” said Jabeur. “She didn’t know if she wants to give me a hug or not. I told her hugs are always welcome from me.”

Jabeur was beaten in the Wimbledon final for the second year running, this time in straight sets against Marketa Vondrousova who triumphed 6-4 6-4.

The 28-year-old did not hold back on her assessment of the result, saying: “This is very tough. It’s the most painful loss of my career. It’s painful because you feel so close to achieving something that you want, and actually back to square one.

“I felt a lot of pressure, a lot of stress. But, like every final, like every match, I was telling myself, ‘It’s OK, it’s normal’. I honestly did nothing wrong. I did everything that I could. I think things take time with me. It wasn’t meant to be this time.

“Definitely this match, last year’s match, the final of the US Open, will teach me how to win these finals.

“I will definitely keep learning, keep being positive. I think that’s the thing that will keep me going. Otherwise, if I’m going to be depressed about it, it’s not going to help much.”

Marketa Vondrousova became the first unseeded woman since Billie Jean King to reach the Wimbledon final and yesterday the 24-year-old Czech made history.

She defeated Ons Jabeur 6-4 6-4 to win the tournament becoming the only unseeded woman in the Open Era to take the Grand Slam title at SW19.

A double fault on her first match point betrayed a hint of nerves but she put away a cool volley on the second try before dropping to the court in stunned celebration.

“When I was 40-0 up, I almost couldn’t breathe,” said Vondrousova after her victory. “I’m just very happy that I stayed in my head and I just kept it together.

“It was really tough in some moments. I think it was just a great match. We had some great rallies. She’s [Jabeur] an amazing player. She’s an amazing person.

“That was the tough part also. We know each other very well. I’m just very happy that I kept fighting in the important moments.”

The Wimbledon men’s final between Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz will start at 2pm BST (9am ET) on Sunday 16 July.

Wimbledon will be shown on the BBC in the UK, with full coverage of the tournament available to watch on BBC One, BBC Two and across the BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport website.

The men’s singles final will be shown on BBC One, with coverage starting from 1pm.

Up above, there was the relentless lashing of rain, beating onto the Centre Court roof. Across the net, there was the consistent “Uh-Hoh!” of Carlos Alcaraz, soundtracking his own shots. All the while, Daniil Medvedev was silent.

He was silent when Alcaraz held serve to love in the very first game. He was silent when Alcaraz let his drop shot off the leash, beating the Russian three times in one game with that signature weapon. He was silent when the Spaniard broke and then held serve to win the first set, and he was silent as the crowd laughed along in disbelief at the stupefying feats before them.

The Wimbledon men’s singles final will be fought for between the top two seeds in the draw. Carlos Alcaraz, as world number one and winner at Queen’s Club just a few weeks ago, is the higher ranked of the two but comes into the match as the undoubted underdog.

Novak Djokovic has won the last four men’s singles tournaments at Wimbledon. He has not been beaten on Centre Court for a decade and is on the verge of a history-making eighth Wimbledon title.

Will the youngster be able to handle the experienced Serb this afternoon?

On Friday, Novak Djokovic’s inevitable march to the Wimbledon final was only met by the briefest of interruptions. Unfortunately for Jannik Sinner, it didn’t come from him. Despite the young Italian’s spirit and fine shot-making, Djokovic’s grip on this semi-final was unrelenting, absorbing the power of one of the biggest hitters in the game and closing out a dominant 6-3 6-4 7-6 win that was only complicated by a couple of difficult moments – namely from the chair umpire, Richard Haigh, and some pockets of the Centre Court crowd.

Carlos Alcaraz, through after beating Daniil Medvedev in straight sets, will need to offer more resistance than Sinner managed here, as well as doing a far better job of taking his chances when the two best players in the world meet in Sunday’s final. It’s a dream final, with all the ingredients for a classic. Djokovic, though, is playing better than ever. “36 is the new 26,” he smiled, once the tension had subsided.

And for a while, the tension had been high.

“Well, I try to get into the court with not as much nerves as I probably had in French Open, in the semi-final. I try to pull out all nerves, try to enjoy that moment because probably in the semifinal at the French Open I didn’t enjoy at all in the first set probably.

“I’ll do something different from the match. I prepare the match a little bit different from French Open. It’s going to be different for me. I hope not to get cramp during the final. I think I’ll be better on Sunday.

“Physically I’ll do it the same, what I was doing before the matches. Probably in the mental part I will do something different, to stay calm, to show that I’m not nervous. Some exercise in the mental part.

“I don’t know what I’m going to do, but I’ll do some exercise to stay calm and to forget – or I’ll try to forget that I’m going to play a final against Novak.”

Carlos Alcaraz on Novak Djokovic: “I grew up watching him, as well. I mean, he has beating all the big guys, Roger and Rafa, when he was younger.

“Being the guy he is right now, everything he has been through is amazing. As I said before, he has no weakness. He’s really complete guy, really complete player. He’s amazing. He does nothing wrong on the court. Physically he’s a beast. Mentally he’s a beast. Everything is unbelievable for him.

“I think it’s a mix of everything that I admire him the most.”