Wimbledon Men's Singles final: Who will prevail in battle of the equals?

Andy Murray will have the crowd rooting for him to win the Championships tomorrow.

Oblivious to the ravages happening around them, both Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray have made sure that they are not cowed down by the flurry of upsets which started to hit Wimbledon right from the first day of the tournament.

While many seeded players in both men’s and women’s section of the draw had to make their exit due to injury, some of them were made to eat humble pie, playing against lesser known opponents.

Just when it all began to appear as though that this year’s Wimbledon was cursed, the disaster was averted – all credit to the top two players of men’s tennis who prevented the Sunday’s final from sporting an indifferent look.

Sensibly seeing off their opponents with some clinical display of baseline tennis, the top two seeds of men’s section have booked their place in the final for the third time in the last four Grand Slams.

So, the Serb-Scot rivalry is all set to occupy the centre stage tomorrow for just the second time at SW19, and given the way the two players have fared against each other in the last one year or so, we can rest assure that the contest is going to be a cracking one.

As we await the epic to unfold in 24 hours’ time, let us quickly have a look at the strengths and weaknesses of both the players plus their recent achievements, going into Sunday’s final.

Novak Djokovic 

The World No.1 Serb has been claiming for the past few days that he is playing his best grass court tennis this year. True to his claim, aided by an innocuous draw, he was able to pin down his opponents up until yesterday’s semifinal without dropping a set.

The kind of form he has been in can be ascertained from the way he pushed himself back into the second set against Berdych in the quarter-final, despite languishing rather alarmingly with two breaks down. Though he had his back to the wall on numerous occasions during yesterday’s semifinal against the Argentine, Del Potro, he came out unscathed in the end at the end of a grueling five setter.

Time and again he has been proving to the whole world that he has the best mental resilience among his contemporaries, which helps him to prevail whenever his matches go the full distance.

Quite unusually, he has been having a very ordinary season this year. Barring the Australian Open and a title in Monte Carlo, he has not done anything exceptional. Since he could not complete a career Grand Slam this year which was originally in his priority list, he would be highly motivated to capture his second title in SW19.