Alcaraz Beats Djokovic to Win Wimbledon for Second Straight Year
Carlos Alcaraz (3rd, Spain) has won the Wimbledon Tennis Championships (total prize money 50 million pounds, approximately 87.5 billion won) men's singles for the second consecutive time.
On the final day of the tournament held at the All England Club in London, England on the 14th (local time), Alcaraz defeated Novak Djokovic (2nd, Serbia) 3-0 (6-2 6-2 7-6<7-4>) in the men's singles final.
Last year, Alcaraz, who defeated Djokovic 3-2 (1-6 7-6<8-6> 6-1 3-6 6-4) in the final of this tournament and rose to the top, received 2.7 million pounds (4.82 billion won) in prize money.
With this win, Alcaraz evened his record with Djokovic at 3 wins and 3 losses, and recorded a record of 4 wins in the final of a major tournament. 파워볼게임
Born in 2003, Alcaraz won his first major crown at the 2022 US Open and has advanced to the finals of four major tournaments, including Wimbledon last year and the French Open and Wimbledon this year, winning all four times.
Alcaraz is the sixth player since professional players were allowed to compete in major tournaments in 1968 to win back-to-back French Open and Wimbledon men's singles titles in the same season, following Rod Laver (Australia), Bjorn Borg (Sweden), Rafael Nadal (Spain), Roger Federer (Switzerland) and Djokovic.
Last year, Alcaraz won the Wimbledon final after a close match of 4 hours and 42 minutes, but this year's final was a close match.
The Wimbledon final rematch between Djokovic, born in 1987, and the 'next-generation flag bearer' Alcaraz drew so much attention from fans that there were reports that the lowest ticket price was over 10 million won, but Carlos Alcaraz gained momentum by taking the first and second sets relatively easily.
This is because Djokovic, who withdrew from the quarterfinals of the French Open in June due to a knee injury and then went under the knife, was not in perfect form.
Djokovic, who had surgery on his right knee about a month ago, showed his ability to make it to the finals wearing a brace on his right knee, but was unable to win the championship.
Alcaras took the lead easily, 5-1 in the early game of the first set, and Alcaras' pace was also one-sided, 6-2 in the second set.
It took only 1 hour and 15 minutes until the second set.
Novak Djokovic, who started 0-2 by losing his first serve game in both the first and second sets, tried to change the mood of the match by holding his first serve game in the third set.
He even roared after barely holding his serve game after five deuces at 1-1.
Alcaras, who was leading 5-4 in the third set, had a triple championship point with a score of 40-0 on his serve game, but failed to capitalize on it, making it 5-5, and the flow of the match seemed to change strangely.
This was because Djokovic took Alcaras' serve game for the first time that day, making it 5-5.
However, Alcaras eventually won 7-4 in the tiebreaker, concluding the 2-hour and 27-minute close match with a victory.
Djokovic, who has yet to win an ATP Tour event this year, attempted to win 25 major singles titles at Wimbledon, the most by a man or woman, but will have to wait until next time.
He will have to try again in 2025 to tie Federer's record of 8 Wimbledon men's singles titles.
After Wimbledon, the world rankings will remain 1st with Yannick Sinner (Italy) in 1st place, followed by 2nd Djokovic and 3rd place Alcaraz.