SportsLine's Jose Onorato reveals his picks for the 2025 Wimbledon men's semifinal of Jannik Sinner vs. Novak Djokovic on Friday

He passed Roger Federer, who has made the final four of Wimbledon 13 times. Jimmy Connors has 11 appearances followed by Boris Becker with 9. It's another key record that adds to Djokovic's case as the best player to ever grace Wimbledon Centre Court.

The 38-year-old overcame a first-set loss to take a 6-7, 6-2, 7-5, 6-4 victory over Italian Flavio Cobolli to advance to the semifinals for the 14th time at the All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club. Djokovic has now reached the final four at Wimbledon more than any other men's tennis player, surpassing Roger Federer on Wednesday.

The Serbian legend has played excellent tennis up to this point in the tournament and has reacted like a true champion to all the difficulties – especially in the matches against Alex de Minaur and Flavio Cobolli – but he is aware that he will literally have to climb a mountain on Friday.

SportsLine tennis expert Jose Onorato reveals his 2025 Wimbledon picks for Wednesday's men's singles quarterfinal between Novak Djokovic and Flavio Cobolli

The Wimbledon men's singles semi-finals take place at the All England Club on Friday. If ever a Grand Slam semi-final involving Spain's Carlos Alcaraz could be described as a warm-up act that could be a fair description of his clash with American Taylor Fritz in the opening match on Centre Court.

Every other day at Wimbledon has brought an opportunity to compare the greatest player in men's tennis and one of his heirs.

One of the surprise stories of the first week at the 2025 Wimbledon Championships was that of Canadian tennis player Carson Branstine, who fought through the qualifying rounds to make it to the grass court Grand Slam event.