20-year-old Carlos Alcaraz grinned in the face of an inevitable outcome to beat Novak Djokovic in an all-time Wimbledon classic.
With everyone’s favourite Grand Slam starting again today, it’s a perfect time to rewind the tape and experience it again.The dust has settled on an astonishing tennis match where the two best tennis players in the world slugged it out for the most prestigious prize.It’s human nature to feel afraid when the stakes are high and there’s so much to lose.
Alcaraz looked inhibited, flustered and rushed as Djokovic claimed the first set in a typically imperious fashion. Bookmakers already felt vindicated by the overwhelming odds they handed the Serbian maestro to claim his fifth consecutive Wimbledon crown and eighth overall. Those backing him were rubbing their hands in glee. It felt inevitable. Everything about Djokovic when he gets that steely look in his eyes has felt so inevitable down the years. Ask all of his victims.
Onto set four, and Novak Djokovic responded. Of course, he did. The finest returner of serve ever witnessed dealt with Alcaraz’s improving deliveries to force a decider in the final. Of course, he did.
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