2024-07-16 07:02:26
Last year’s full set close match… This year’s 3-0 complete victory
Dream of becoming ‘youngest player to win 5 majors’ at US Open
Djokovic Postpones Most Major Wins
Carlos Alcaraz (Spain, left) stood in front of the camera with his final opponent Novak Djokovic (Serbia) after winning the Wimbledon tennis tournament on the 15th. Alcaraz won his second consecutive major tournament after winning the French Open last month. London=AP Newsis
It took 4 hours and 42 minutes to take the title of ‘Prince of Wimbledon’. It took 2 hours and 27 minutes to defend the title. Carlos Alcaraz (21, Spain, world ranking 3) defeated Novak Djokovic (37, Serbia, 2nd) and defended the Wimbledon tennis championship.
Alcaraz won the men’s singles final of the tournament held in London, England on the 15th, beating Djokovic 3-0 (6-2, 6-2, 7-6) and successfully won the tournament for the second consecutive time. In the final last year, Alcaraz stopped Djokovic from winning the tournament for the fifth time in a full set, but the match ended rather blandly this time. Reuters commented, “Djokovic, who won 24 major tournaments, surrendered to Alcaraz in a completely helpless state.”
Alcaraz has won four major tournaments so far, including the 2022 US Open and this year’s French Open. Since the Open Era in 1968, when professional players were allowed to compete in the four major tournaments (Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, US Open), no player has won four major men’s singles tournaments at a younger age than Alcaraz. Mats Willander (60) and Björn Borg (68, both from Sweden) have won four times at the same age. The Big 3 of men’s tennis, Djokovic, Roger Federer (43, Switzerland) and Rafael Nadal (38, Spain) won their fourth major tournaments at age 24, 23, and 22, respectively.
Alcaras also won two major tournaments in the same season for the first time since his debut. If Alcaras wins the US Open, which opens next month on the 27th, he will become the youngest player to win five major tournaments since the Open era. “Even though I have already won four major tournaments at the age of 21, I still have a long way to go,” Alcaras said. “At the end of my career, my goal is to sit at the same table as the players I looked up to as a child.”
With the loss, Djokovic will postpone tying the record for most major championships (25) for both men and women and the most Wimbledon men’s singles championships (8). Djokovic suffered a knee injury during the French Open, the previous major, and underwent surgery, and played the entire tournament wearing a knee brace. Despite this, he reached the final of this tournament for the sixth consecutive time, but it was not enough to defeat Alcaraz. Djokovic said, “I felt like I was outplayed by Alcaraz throughout the match. I don’t think I could have done more because Alcaraz was reading my serve.”
Reporter Kim Jeong-hun [email protected]
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