Wimbledon: Alcaraz completes masterpiece against Djokovic and wins his second Wimbledon

In the elegant hell of Wimbledon Centre Court, Carlos Alcaraz Dance Novak Djokovic, He is funny, celebrates with the audience and produces one of his Alcaraz moments, those occasions when seeing him you will smile from ear to ear, your eyes will light up and you will start to have a giggle that will make your partner run from behind to another room to see if you are okay. His feature is beauty, as it already is Roger Federerr, he left it Foster Wallace, There is power Rafael Nadal And the speed of Djokovic himself, but most of all the enjoyment. Seeing how unstoppable he is, how unstoppable this tennis player who is having fun is.

This Sunday, Alcaraz had a really good time, winning his fourth Grand Slam, his second Wimbledon in a row, a masterpiece, the best match of his life, a celebration of his tennis and his own dedication. At 21 years old, an all-around genius, who has matured while remaining happy, who can stop him now, no one, certainly no one.

If last year he was a failure when he beat Djokovic, this year he was a dwarf. The most successful tennis player in history, with 24 Grand Slams and more records, was an average player in his hands. The Spaniard won 6-2, 6-2, 7-6 (4) in just two hours and eight minutes, producing the most complete match in memory. More focused than ever, he was the fastest Alcaraz on grass, the hardest serving Alcaraz, the most successful, the most combative and, of course, the most enjoyable. He needed to enjoy a few shots if perfection was to be achieved, but this one was not enough.

With Djokovic showing some sluggishness, even some discomfort, coming off a right knee injury during the French Open, Alcaraz’s plan could only be: move him, move him, move him. From the first game, when the Spaniard broke on his fifth try, the match lasted an eternity, with Alcaraz attacking Djokovic and him nearly succumbing.

Deadly serve, deadly break

At first, the efficiency of the Spaniard’s serve surprised him. Looking back at all his matches in this Wimbledon and his low success rate in these matches, the Serbian surely planned to attack his second serve on the break and consolidate the victory. After all, he had already achieved this before, as in their last match, in the semifinals of the ATP Finals. But Alcaraz came in the final with his best serve. In addition to the power, with several serves reaching speeds of over 200 km/h, he shone in positions where he had almost no other options, in fact, Djokovic had only 3 break points in the result and only completed 1 of them.

But Alcaraz’s superiority wasn’t demonstrated in one shot. Not by much. After securing his own point, he enacted a plan that was unexpected but aggressive for everyone else. When Djokovic hesitated on serve, the Spaniard came up to attack the parallel player, and if he caught him, the ensuing exchange almost always fell on his side.

Several times, Djokovic hit what he thought was a winning shot, a volley, a lob, a forehand from an impossible angle, and Alcaraz seemed to have beaten him. Only in the third set, when all was lost — no one had come back from two sets down since 1927 — did the Serb give it his all, demand more, and not even get there. The nervous Spaniard wasted three championship balls at 5-4 and 40-0, but he had no forgiveness in the tiebreak. Then came a lob in the run, almost his first successful lob, a sentence.

There, the 25-time Grand Slam winner, who has seen it all in tennis, who faced the best tennis player in history in his prime, can only hum. What a severe test. At 37, the farewell is not far away, and that’s when he will repeat. Of all his experiences, he will remember the 2024 Wimbledon final, when he witnessed the rise of a player who showed the beauty of Federer, the power of Nadal, his own speed, and at the same time had a lot of fun. One day, Djokovic will talk about the Alcaraz moment, when he was able to not only smile all over, but also brighten his expression and give off a giggle that makes your partner come over from the other room to see if you are okay. .