Is Novak Djokovic back? Certainly looked like it Friday night and Saturday afternoon at Wimbledon.
The 12-time Grand Slam champion outlasted Rafael Nadal 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (9), 3-6, 10-8 to reach Sunday’s final at the All England Club, where the Serb plays South African Kevin Anderson.
Djokovic and Nadal, two men with a combined 29 Grand Slam singles titles, played the first three sets Friday — after Anderson and John Isner‘s 6-hour, 36-minute epic — before Wimbledon’s 11 p.m. curfew suspended the match overnight.
They were on court for more than five hours, which would have been the longest Wimbledon semifinal in history before Friday.