{"id":316532,"date":"2023-07-16T18:28:55","date_gmt":"2023-07-16T18:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=316532"},"modified":"2023-07-16T18:58:56","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T18:58:56","slug":"alcaraz-clinches-first-wimbledon-title-in-major-turnaround","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=316532","title":{"rendered":"Alcaraz clinches first Wimbledon title in major turnaround"},"content":{"rendered":"

After losing in the Roland-Garros<\/a> semi-final, Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> said he wanted another shot at Novak Djokovic<\/a>. He said it would make winning a Wimbledon championship more special. Well, Alcaraz got his chance to face Djokovic. And he beat him.<\/p>\n

Alcaraz put aside a poor start and surged down the stretch to end Djokovic's 34-match winning streak at the All England Club by edging him 1-6, 7-6 (6), 6-1, 3-6, 6-4 in an engaging, back-and-forth final, claiming his first championship at Wimbledon and second Grand Slam trophy overall.<\/p>\n

The No. 1-ranked Alcaraz prevented Djokovic from what would have been a record-tying eighth title, and fifth in a row, at the grass-court tournament.<\/p>\n

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Djokovic also was kept from claiming his 24th career major.<\/p>\n

Instead of Djokovic, a 36-year-old from Serbia, becoming the oldest male champion at Wimbledon in the Open era, Alcaraz, a 20-year-old from Spain, became the third youngest. The age gap between the two was the widest in any men\u2019s Slam final since 1974.<\/p>\n

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So Alcaraz had youth on his side, which he also did, of course, when they met at Roland-Garros last month. That one was extraordinary for two sets before Alcaraz cramped up and faded. This time, he had the stamina and the strokes to get past Djokovic.<\/p>\n

Alcaraz is faster and capable of more power \u2014 serves topping 210km\/h, forehands topping 160km\/h \u2014 but Djokovic is equipped with an abundance of talents and so much muscle memory. He\u2019s been there, and done that in ways Alcaraz, for now, can only dream of.<\/p>\n

But if this victory on a windy and cloudy day at Centre Court, where Djokovic last lost in the 2013 final, was any indication, Alcaraz is on his way to achieving quite a bit himself.<\/p>\n

\"Djokovic\u00a0puts\u00a0it\u00a0to\u00a0a\u00a0fifth\"<\/p>\n

Still, this is all relatively new to him: Djokovic\u2019s record 35th Grand Slam final was Alcaraz\u2019s second.<\/p>\n

Yet it was Alcaraz who won a 32-point, 25-minute mini-masterpiece of a game on the way to taking the third set. And it was Alcaraz who moved out front for good by breaking to go up 2-1 in the fifth with a backhand passing winner.<\/p>\n

Djokovic, who fell during the point but quickly popped back up, reacted by slamming his racket into the net post, letting go on impact. He destroyed his equipment and earned a code violation from chair umpire Fergus Murphy.<\/p>\n

They would play on for another 24 minutes, bringing the total to more than four and a half hours, but Alcaraz never relented, never gave way. And it was Alcaraz, not Djokovic, receiving the trophy in the evening.<\/p>\n

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After losing in the Roland-Garros semi-final, Carlos Alcaraz said he wanted another shot at Novak Djokovic. He said it would make winning a Wimbledon championship […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":316534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=316532"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316537,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316532\/revisions\/316537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/316534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=316532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=316532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=316532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}