🎾 Wimbledon Winners Are Grinners

Good morning, it's Monday, 11 July. Hands up if you stayed up all night watching Wimbledon and F1 🙋‍♂️. If you didn't, all good, we got you covered today in our new-look newsletter. There's heaps to cover so what are you doing wasting time reading the intro?! Let's go!

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👀 There's a new entry to the 'when celebrations go wrong' file.

THE MAIN GAME

🎾 Seventh heaven for Novak Djokovic

The guy is unflappable, indefatigable, seemingly unconquerable and other really long words. He's Novak Djokovic, your 2022 Wimbledon men's singles champion.

The score: Novak Djokovic beat Nick Kyrgios 4-6 6-3 6-4 7-6(3) in the Wimbledon men's singles final

Golden points: This was a final between the bad boy from Australia and the bad boy from Serbia, but they both left as good guys after a high-level final that had a bit of everything.

• Krygios went deep into his bag of tricks from the get go. We're talking underarm serves, shots between his legs, deft volleys and booming serves. And it worked! He won the first set 6-4.

• But then Djokovic flicked the 'unbeatable tennis champion' switch and Kyrgios felt the pressure. He directed most of his frustration at his team and asked for a female spectator to be removed for heckling with 700 beers under her belt. Feels like a lot.

• If Kyrgios was feeling the heat, it was arctic on the other side of the net. Djokovic was ice cold in taking the next three sets and his 7th Wimbledon singles title. But he warmed up after the win and confirmed there is a bromance between the finalists.

The stat: The win is Djokovic's 7th at Wimbledon, drawing him level with American Pete Sampras in 2nd for the most men's singles titles. He's one behind Roger Federer's record of 8, but he's now one clear of Fed in overall grand slams. Fed has 20, Djokovic 21 and Rafael Nadal has 22.

They said it: "He is a bit of a God. I'm not going to lie. I thought I played well." - Kyrgios needed divine intervention to get the win today.

They said it: "OK, it is officially a bromance." - Djokovic is probably gonna make good of their deal that the loser shouts dinner.

Watch it: Check out the highlights of the final.

QUICK SINGLES

🎾 Tennis: Move over Woodies, we've got new Wimbledon men's doubles champions. On Saturday night, Aussies Max Purcell and Matt Ebden completed one of the most remarkable grand slam wins ever. They had 5 5-set matches, saved 8 match points, won 2 5th-set tie-breakers and beat the defending champs in the final. Talk about doing it the hard way!

🏎 F1: Ferrari's hopes of a 1-2 finish go up in flames. Quite literally. The Ferraris were comfortably the fastest cars at the Austrian F1 Grand Prix overnight and looked certain to finish 1-2 on the podium. But with 14 laps to go, Carlos Sainz's car had an engine failure and caught on fire. He's OK, the car... not so much. Teammate Charles Leclerc got the win, but it could have been so much better for Ferrari.

🏉 Rugby: "The game's out of control." That's what England coach Eddie Jones said after the refs on the weekend in Brisbane and Dunedin were trigger happy handing out red and yellow cards. Jones wasn't too upset, though, because his side beat the Wallabies 25-17 to set up a series-decider this Saturday at the SCG.

🏃‍♀️ Athletics: It's one short step for man, one giant, record-breaking leap for Aussie Brooke Buschkuehl. Buschkuehl (pronounced bush-cool) set a new Australian record in women's long jump with a leap of 7.13m, more than 6 years after setting the old record of 7.05m. It's also the longest jump of the year, so it's perfect timing ahead of the World Athletics Championships which start this weekend in Portland.

⛳️ The Great White Shark didn't get a bait. Aussie golf legend Greg Norman, aka the Great White Shark, didn't get invited to the 150yr celebrations of the British Open this week because of his involvement as CEO of the rebel LIV Golf tour. The organisers said Norman - a 2-time British Open winner - would be an unwanted distraction. Norman called it "petty".

LEFT OF FIELD

⛳️ AFL: Noah Anderson kicked a goal after the siren to complete perhaps the comeback of the season in the Suns thrilling win over the Tigers on the Gold Coast. As you can imagine, the goal sparked wild celebrations, celebrations that quickly turned sour for Suns young gun Hewago Oea. Seconds after he jumped on the hog pile with Anderson at the bottom, he was off grimacing with a dislocated pinky finger. Look away if you don't like fingers pointing in the wrong direction.

📽 Highlight reel: We just mentioned it so check out Noah Anderson's kick after the siren to win a game of footy. This is what dreams are made of!

📸 Photo finish: Here is photo evidence of Purcell and Ebden winning the Wimbledon Gentlemen's doubles final. Now that's a trophy you can drink out of.

THE POLLING BOOTH

We'll have the results in tomorrow's newsletter.

WHAT WE'RE WATCHING

• ⚾️ 9:00am - MLB - Red Sox v Yankees - Fenway Park, Boston - Foxtel, Kayo

• 🏏 2:30pm - Cricket - Australia v Sri Lanka, 2nd Test, day 4 - Galle - Foxtel, Kayo

All times AEST

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