Winner of Novak Djokovic in five sets, Carlos Alcaraz won his first Wimbledon on Sunday.
With Carlos Alcaraz, everything goes very quickly. World number one at barely 20 years old, the young Spanish prodigy won his first Wimbledon on Sunday July 16. After his coronation in September 2022 at the US Open, he thus won his second Grand Slam title, in less than a year. All against Novak Djokovic, undefeated in London since 2017, and titled 7 times on British grass. A colossal feat that is confirmed in numbers.
26 minutes: the longest game
On the London lawn, it was not just a tennis match played by Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic, but a real marathon. In total, the final was spread over 4h42, in five sets, with a central moment, which sums up the bitterness of the fights in itself: a game which lasted… 26 minutes! We then played the third set, and it was a double break that was in play for Alcaraz, who finally turned 4-1 in favor of the Spaniard. A few minutes later, he pocketed the sleeve.
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Djokovic’s cursed 13
Since the beginning of May, Novak Djokovic had remained on an incredible series: the Serb had not lost a set in the tie-break in the last 13 he had played. So, when during the second set, the tie-break was profiled, we did not give much of the skin of Carlos Alcaraz. But the Spaniard managed to stop the series of “Djoko”. For the record: the best series of its kind remains that of Andy Roddick, and his 18 consecutive winning tie-breaks.
78 wins
At Wimbledon, Novak Djokovic had never lost a match after winning the first set. The only time this happened was because the Serb retired with an injury. So far, he had therefore won the 78 meetings in which he had pocketed the first round at Wimbledon according to Game set and Maths. A series that ended on Sunday.
Alcaraz joins Bjorg and Becker
Carlos Alcaraz’s youth is anything but a handicap for the Spaniard. At 20 years and two months, he became the third-youngest Wimbledon winner since the start of the Open era; behind Boris Becker (17 years and 7 months, then 18 years and 7 months) and Bjorn Borg (20 years, then 21 years). In addition, the Spaniard has become the 5th player to have won at least two Grand Slam titles before turning 21, after Wilander, Bjorg, Becker and Nadal, again according to Game, Set and Maths.