Carlos Alcaraz won his second Wimbledon at 21, playing an amazing match and beating Novak Djokovic for a long time in the final .
The remake of last year's hard-fought final, again won by Carlitos but in the fifth, is without history: the Spaniard prevails with a score of 6-2, 6-2, 7-6 in approximately two and a half hours, against a Nole duller than usual, almost resigned to the excessive power of his rival's blows. And the result could have been even worse, only a lapse in concentration from the Spaniard (three consecutive matchpoints canceled at 5-4 and 40-0 on his own serve) gave us a thriller final.
The trend was clear from the first minutes: Alcaraz immediately broke the Serb's serve in a hard-fought game, then another break in the fifth game and the first set ended with a score of 6-2. Same story in the second: Alcaraz starts immediately ahead and in the seventh game gets the second break, again 6-2.
There is more match in the third and final set. It goes on until 4 all, with Djokovic also having a break point cancelled. The ninth game is a real demonstration of arrogance from Alcaraz, who with a lightning-fast forehand and two splendid passers (one on the fly) takes the break to make it 5-4, but in the next game the unthinkable happens: the Spaniard ahead 40 -0 had three matchpoints in a row canceled on his serve with a series of errors and was reached at 5-5 . We go to the tiebreak, where Alcaraz regains his concentration and makes the excessive power of his shots count, winning 7-4.
It is the fourth Slam title for Alcaraz, after the 2022 US Open, 2023 Wimbledon and 2024 Roland Garros . The Serbian crashes again against the Spaniard, who for the second year in a row makes his dream of obtaining his eighth Wimbledon title and thus reaching Roger Federer disappear.
(Unioneonline/L)