{"id":1769,"date":"2025-07-12T18:26:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T16:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/?p=1769"},"modified":"2025-07-12T18:26:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T16:26:54","slug":"wimbledon-mens-semi-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/2025\/07\/12\/wimbledon-mens-semi-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon &#8211; Mens Semi-Final"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\ud83c\udfbe <strong>Men\u2019s Singles Semifinals<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Jannik Sinner<\/strong> delivered a commanding straight-sets win over <strong>Novak Djokovic<\/strong>, taking the match 6\u20133, 6\u20133, 6\u20134. Sinner, the current world No. 1, capitalized on a noticeably off-form Djokovic\u2014likely still dealing with effects from a fall in his previous match. With this victory, Sinner reaches his first Wimbledon final and maintains his recent dominance over Djokovic with a fifth consecutive win.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>On the other side of the draw, <strong>Carlos Alcaraz<\/strong> defeated <strong>Taylor Fritz<\/strong> in four competitive sets: 6\u20134, 5\u20137, 6\u20133, 7\u20136(6). Fritz fought hard, especially after stealing the second set, but Alcaraz\u2019s resilience and powerful serve in pressure moments made the difference. The match drew huge crowd reactions, including a viral moment from actor <strong>Leonardo DiCaprio<\/strong>, who was spotted celebrating an intense rally in the crowd.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u267f <strong>Other Action<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In wheelchair singles, <strong>Alfie Hewett<\/strong> advanced to the final, keeping his hopes alive for a third straight Wimbledon title.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Onto the fantasy leaderboard:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;Deuce Bags&#8217; move even further ahead after the semi-finals and now lead by 15 points over &#8216;Get a Grip&#8217; who are now in 2nd all alone. There is a tie for 3rd place between &#8216;Wuthering Heights&#8217; and &#8216;Carry on Regardless&#8217;. &#8216;Slamdunk&#8217; sit in 5th and there is a 3 way tie now for 6th place between &#8216;SERVED&#8217;, &#8216;Lucky Strings&#8217; and &#8216;Grasshopper&#8217;. <br>47th place is occupied by &#8216;The Umpire Strikes Back&#8217; and 75th place is occupied by &#8216;Fuzzy Green Balls&#8217; and lastly 87th place is occupied by &#8216;Who Knows the Odds?&#8217;.<br>The wooden spoon is still occupied by &#8216;Forrest Town&#8217; however now we have a team eliminated and that team is &#8216;Sinners Smoke Grass&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"332\" height=\"756\" src=\"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/Mens-Semi-Final-Top-Half.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1771\" srcset=\"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/Mens-Semi-Final-Top-Half.png 332w, http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/Mens-Semi-Final-Top-Half-132x300.png 132w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Top Half<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"323\" height=\"627\" src=\"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/Mens-Semi-Final-Bottom-Half.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1772\" srcset=\"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/Mens-Semi-Final-Bottom-Half.png 323w, http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/Mens-Semi-Final-Bottom-Half-155x300.png 155w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 323px) 100vw, 323px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Bottom Half<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83c\udfbe Men\u2019s Singles Semifinals \u267f Other Action Onto the fantasy leaderboard: &#8216;Deuce Bags&#8217; move even further ahead after the semi-finals and now lead by 15 points over &#8216;Get a Grip&#8217; who are now in 2nd all alone. There is a tie for 3rd place between &#8216;Wuthering Heights&#8217; and &#8216;Carry on Regardless&#8217;. &#8216;Slamdunk&#8217; sit in 5th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aussie-open"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1773,"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769\/revisions\/1773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}