“It was a great match and I felt very lucky to have watched that.”
In the semi-finals, Kevin Anderson and John Isner battled for six hours and 36 minutes which included a fifth set which took nearly three hours and finished 26-24 to Anderson.
Nadal then played another marathon match in the last four against Djokovic, losing in five hours and 15 minutes.
At the end of 2018, Wimbledon announced they would be introducing a final-set tie-break in a bid to shorten the length of matches.
