Djokovic saved two championship points in the 2019 Wimbledon final.
Those chances came in the fifth set, with Roger Federer serving at 8–7 and 40–15. Federer was two points from winning his ninth Wimbledon singles title, but Djokovic won the next points, broke back, and eventually forced the set to a deciding tiebreak. Djokovic won that tiebreak 7–3 and captured the match 7–6, 1–6, 7–6, 4–6, 13–12.
The victory was especially notable because Djokovic became the first Wimbledon men’s singles champion since Bob Falkenburg in 1948 to win the title after facing championship points. It was also the first time a Wimbledon men’s singles final had reached a final-set tiebreak under the tournament’s newly introduced 12–12 rule.
Readers sometimes call these “match points,” which is understandable, but “championship points” is the more precise tournament term: Federer would have won the championship by converting either opportunity. Djokovic’s escape became one of the defining moments of their rivalry.