Carlos Alcaraz handles Taylor Fritz to return to Wimbledon final - ESPN

WIMBLEDON, England — Carlos Alcaraz moved within one victory of a third consecutive Wimbledon championship and sixth Grand Slam title overall at age 22 by defeating Taylor Fritz 6-4, 5-7, 6-3, 7-6 (6) on Friday.

The No. 2-seeded Alcaraz takes a 24-match winning streak into the final Sunday, when he will face either No. 1 Jannik Sinner or 24-time major champion Novak Djokovic. They were playing later Friday.

«Not thinking about the winning streak. Not thinking about the results at all. Thinking about… my dream,» Alcaraz said. «Right now, I don't want to think about Sunday, to be honest. I just want to enjoy this moment, enjoy that I qualified [for] another final.»

Alcaraz beat Djokovic in the 2023 and 2024 title matches at the All England Club and is 5-0 in major finals. That includes a five-set comeback win over Sinner at the French Open a month ago.

The fifth-seeded Fritz, the runner-up to Sinner at last year's US Open, was trying to become the first American man in the Wimbledon final since Andy Roddick lost to Roger Federer in 2009.

Fritz had two chances to force a fifth set against Alcaraz, leading 6-4 in the tiebreaker. But Alcaraz collected the next four points to finish off the win, then rocked back on his heels, spread his arms wide and screamed.

«I'm just really proud about the way that I stayed calm,» Alcaraz said, «and then [was] thinking clearly.»

That wasn't the only time Fritz made things interesting. He accumulated more total points than Alcaraz through the first two sets, and he finished with more winners — 44 to 38 — and 19 total aces to 13.

When Alcaraz double-faulted, then missed a forehand, to drop the second, they were even at a set apiece.

But with five-time Wimbledon champion Bjorn Borg and