Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic could not hold back his tears at the award ceremony held after the Wimbledon final match. On July 16, he lost 1:6, 7:6, 6:1, 3:6, 6:4 in a five-set match against 20-year-old Spaniard Carlos Alcaras. The match lasted 4 hours and 43 minutes.
Carlos Alcaras completed nine aces in the game, made seven double mistakes and converted 5 out of 19 break points. Novak Djokovic recorded two passes, three double faults and 5 real break points out of 15 in this match.
Alcaraz won the second Grand Slam of his career. He is the 2022 US Open champion.
At the time of his Wimbledon victory, there were only two youths from Alcaraz: Boris Becker (he won two titles before he was 19) and Bjorn Borg (again at the age of 20).
This year, two Russian tennis players reached the quarter-finals, another lost in the semi-finals.
On July 14, Daniil Medvedev lost to Alcaraz in the Wimbledon semi-finals with the scores of 3:6, 3:6, 3:6.
On July 11, Rublev lost to Novak Djokovic in the quarterfinals of Wimbledon with the scores of 6:4, 1:6, 4:6, 3:6 in four sets. Also in the ¼ final lost another Russian – Roman Safiullin. She dated Yannick Sinner.
Previously reportedCzech tennis player Marketa Vondrousova broke the Wimbledon record.