2014 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles final
 Novak Djokovic (1) vs.  Roger Federer (4)
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| Date | Sunday 6 July 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Tournament | The Championships, Wimbledon | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | London, Great Britain | ||||||||||||||||||
The 2014 Wimbledon Championships Men's Singles final was the championship tennis match of the Men's Singles tournament at the 2014 Wimbledon Championships. A significant part of the Djokovic–Federer rivalry, it pitted Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer against each other in a Grand Slam final for the second time.
After three hours and 56 minutes, top-seeded Djokovic defeated fourth-seeded Federer in five sets to win the match. By winning the 2014 Wimbledon Championships, Djokovic not only won for the second time, but also reclaimed the world number one ranking from Rafael Nadal at the conclusion of the tournament.
The match took place on the final day of the 2014 edition of the 13-day Wimbledon Championships, held every June and July. Novak Djokovic entered the Championships seeded first ahead of world number one Rafael Nadal due to his recent record at the tournament which had seen him reach the semi-finals in 2012 and the final in 2013 respectively, as opposed to Nadal who had lost in the second and first rounds in those respective years. Roger Federer, on the other hand, entered the Championships ranked and seeded fourth, and successfully returned to the final this year after being upset by Sergiy Stakhovsky in the second round last year.
Both players had to overcome numerous tough matches to reach the final: Djokovic was almost pushed to five sets by Radek Štěpánek in the second round, was two sets to one down against Marin Čilić in the quarter-finals before rallying to win in five sets and also required four sets to defeat Grigor Dimitrov in the semi-finals. By contrast, Federer only dropped one set (and his own serve) in his quarter-final against countryman Stan Wawrinka.
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