Wimbledon 2022 LIVE Day 5 – Alcaraz beat Otte: Top seed Novak Djokovic defeated his compatriot Miomir Kecmanovic in straight sets to advance to fourth round. Meanwhile, Ons Jabeur also made it the LAST-16 after defeating teenager Diane Parry. Later in the day, young Carlos Alcaraz beat Oscar Otte to book his fourth round slot. Follow Wimbledon 2022 3rd ROUND LIVE with InsideSport.IN
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- Djokovic beat Kecmanovic 6-0 6-3 6-4
- Alcaraz beat Otte 6-3 6-1 6-2
- Jabeur beat Parry – 6-2 6-3
Wimbledon 2022 LIVE Day 5: Novak Djokovic, Ons Jabeur and Carlos Alcaraz enter fourth round at Wimbledon 2022: Follow LIVE UPDATES
Day 5 Results:
Novak Djokovic vs Miomir Kecmanovic
Novak Djokovic clinically disposed of fellow Serb Miomir Kecmanovic as he continued his relentless pursuit of a fourth successive Wimbledon title with a 6-0 6-3 6-4 victory on Friday. The top seed was unplayable in the opening set of his third-round match on Centre Court, taking it in 24 minutes.
Kecmanovic, seeded 25, received the biggest cheer of the day when he finally got on the scoreboard after 35 minutes by taking a long service game. But Djokovic was streets ahead of his 22-year-old rival as he reached the last 16 at Wimbledon for the 14th time.
Carlos Alcaraz vs Oscar Otte
Carlos Alcaraz stayed on course for a potential quarter-final showdown with six-time Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic after taking care of tricky German opponent Oscar Otte with a no-nonsense 6-3 6-1 6-2 third round win on Friday.
Otte had stretched twice champion Andy Murray to five sets in a late-night second-round blockbuster 12 months ago but any hopes of a repeat were quickly extinguished by the fifth seed who seems to have found his comfort zone on grass.
Frances Tiafoe vs Alexander Bublik
American 23rd seed Frances Tiafoe kept his focus in the face of an Alexander Bublik circus act on Friday to reach the Wimbledon fourth round for the first time.
The 24-year-old punched the air with delight as the crowd-pleasing Bublik double-faultedto seal a 3-6 7-6(1) 7-6(3) 6-4 victory in front an enthralled audience on Court Two.
Tim van Rijthoven vs Nikoloz Basilashvili
Dutch wildcard Tim van Rijthoven continued his fairytale grasscourt run on Friday, claiming his eight straight victory on the surface to storm into the Wimbledon fourth round on his Grand Slam main draw debut. He defeated Nikoloz Basilashvili 6-4 6-3 6-4 in the third round.
The 25-year-old was ranked 205th in the world and had not won a title even on the Challenger Tour when he triumphed at the ATP 250 grasscourt event in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, defeating world number one Daniil Medvedev 6-4 6-1 in the final.
Women’s Singles
Ons Jabeur vs Diane Parry
Ons Jabeur was kept on court for more than hour – but only just – as the speedy Tunisian dispatched former junior number one Diane Parry 6-2 6-3 on Friday to reach the fourth round at Wimbledon.
The world number two has shown little mercy during her progress to the third round, spending less than two hours on court. Had she not been broken by Parry when serving for the first set at 5-0 up, she would have made it into the last 16 in less than three hours on court during the first five days of the grasscourt major.
Elise Mertens vs Angelique Kerber
Elise Mertens stayed solid against an error-prone Angelique Kerber of Germany to defeat the former Wimbledon champion 6-4 7-5 on Friday and reach the fourth round. Mertens will next meet third seed Ons Jabeur of Tunisia for a place in the quarter-finals.
The Belgian achieved her best showing at the grasscourt Grand Slam in 2019 when she got to the last 16 and came into Friday’s contest having defeated the three-times major winner in their only previous meeting three years ago.
Tatjana Maria vs Maria Sakkari
Germany’s Tatjana Maria, at 34 the oldest player left in the Wimbledon women’s draw, knocked fifth seed Maria Sakkari out 6-3 7-5 on Friday to reach the fourth round of a Grand Slam for the first time in her career.
Maria will next face 12th-seeded Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, the 2017 French Open champion, for a quarter-final spot.
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