In 2018, Wimbledon's second men's singles semi-final, the world's first Nadal and Djokovic ushered in the 52nd confrontation. In the end, when Deyo was 6-4, 3-6 and 7-6 (9) ahead of Nadal, the match was forced to be postponed to the next day because it was 23 o'clock local time after three sets. The first three sets have been in progress for 2 hours and 54 minutes.
After the first six hours and 36 minutes' marathon 'competition of Wimbledon men's singles, the 52nd round of the second semi-final was finally staged. In the first game, both sides kept their hair in the first four games. Nadal saved two break points in the fifth game. In the first set, he led DJO 3-2 temporarily, while DJO won the first set with 6-4 in 47 minutes with the key break in the seventh game.
In the second set, Nadal saved three break points in the first two serve sets, and then finished the break in the fourth set by using the mistakes of DJO. Later, the two broke each other's serve. After a wave of 7-0 small climax, Nadal led the game 5-2. After DJO finished the serve, Nadal saved two break points in the serve winning set, took the second set 6-3, and pulled the score to 1-1.
In the third set, the service quality of both sides was improved, and both sides kept their service in their own service bureau smoothly, from the 1-1 draw to the 6-6 draw, and the game entered the snatch seven. In snatch seven, de Yue takes the lead in serving, but sends out double mistakes, but then realizes the mini break, leads Nadal by 4-2. After that, Nadal broke back and got the inventory by 6-5, Djokovic saved three inventory successively, missed another inventory, and finally got the seventh and third set victory by 11-9 after Nadal got off the net with a double anti line ball, leading by 2-1 in the total score.
Both of them improved the service condition, in which Nadal only lost 3 points in his first four service innings, and there were 2 consecutive four point love games. Although Djokovic didn't send a break point, the process of individual innings was a little difficult. In the 9th inning, Djokovic started with double faults, but after the 9th inning, Djokovic led 5-4. The following match is still a regular rhythm, under pressure Nadal two sets are stable hair, which means that both sides need to grab seven to decide the outcome of this set.
In the seventh round, Djokovic made a double mistake in the opening, but even after finishing the break back, he was in the lead of 4-2 after Nadal intercepted in front of the net in the middle game, holding the advantage of one more Mini break, but at the critical moment, Nadal not only completed the mini break back, but also took the lead in 6-5 to get the inventory. However, Nadal failed to seize the opportunity, Djokovic saved three inventory successively, the two sides snatched seven from 6-6 to 9-9, with Nadal back to the ball off the net, Djokovic took seven with 11-9 difficulty, and took the victory of the third set, leading 2-1 in the total score.
As the local time is 23:03, so the referee called off the match, the two men's singles semi-final will be resumed in the 12th competition day.