wimbledon england in the last year novak djokovic has experienced the highest of tennis highs coming within one match of winning a rare calendaryear grand slam and the lowest of lows including detainment and deportation after he arrived in melbourne in january to try to defend his australian open titleon sunday he will get a chance to win a seventh wimbledon singles title against an opponent nick kyrgios of australia that few including kyrgios himself thought would ever find the mental strength required to arrive at the biggest stage in the sportdjokovic earned his spot in the final with a fourset win over cameron norrie of britain on friday afternoon overcoming some earlymatch inconsistency that is becoming a bit of a habit he withstood both a strong start from norrie and a raucous hometown crowd on centre court to win the semifinal 26 63 62 64it was the only mens semifinal played fridayon thursday rafael nadal withdrew from the tournament with a tear in his abdominal muscle nadals decision not to play after he aggravated the tear in his fiveset quarterfinal victory over taylor fritz allowed kyrgios to advance without effort into his first grand slam singles final it also ended the hope for a coveted showdown between djokovic and nadal who have won a combined 42 grand slam titles but have played each other for the trophy at wimbledon only once in 2011 djokovic wonkyrgios and djokovicwhat the matchup with kyrgios in the final might lack in terms of historical value no one not even kyrgios expects him to evolve at 27 into an alltime great it may well make up for with drama it is a duel between two players that many in and around the sport view as villainsdjokovics impetuous and contrarian behavior especially compared with his chief rivals the gentlemanly nadal and roger federer has long made him more feared than loved a crasher of the binary tennis rivalry that federer and nadal first created more than 15 years agokyrgios a temperamental and explosive talent who has spent his career battling the tennis establishment and his own demons is an uncontrollable and disruptive force who has put himself in the heat of the wimbledon spotlight since the first days of this tournamenthe can explode at any moment and he has repeatedly in the past two weeks at chair umpires opponents fans or anyone he views as treating him unjustly sometimes it is genuine other times it is merely to shake up and distract his opponent he has earned 14000 in fines this tournament but has played to packed stadiums with fans lusting for his booming serve or the occasional underhanded one and his throughthelegs trick shotson tuesday news broke that kyrgios was due in court aug 2 to face allegations of assaulting a former girlfriend chiara passari told police kyrgios grabbed her during a domestic dispute in december on the advice of his lawyers kyrgios has declined to comment on the allegationstheres going