Alcaraz (left) holding the winner’s trophy. Presenter was Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge.
Carlos Alcaraz (3rd, Spain) achieved his second consecutive victory in the men’s singles at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships (total prize money of 50 million pounds, approximately 87.5 billion won).
Alcaraz defeated Novak Djokovic (No. 2, Serbia) 3-0 (6-2 6-2 7-6<7-4>) in the men’s singles final on the final day of the tournament held at the All England Club in London, England on the 14th (local time).
Alcaraz, who also won the final of this tournament last year by beating Djokovic 3-2 (1-6 7-6<8-6> 6-1 3-6 6-4), received prize money of 2.7 million pounds (4.82 billion won).
With this win, Alcaraz equalized his record with Djokovic at 3-3 and has won all four of his matches in the finals of major tournaments.
Born in 2003, Alcaraz won her first major crown at the 2022 US Open and has reached the finals of four major tournaments, including Wimbledon last year and the French Open and Wimbledon this year, winning all four.
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’s Wimbledon final was won by Alcaraz after a close match lasting 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 garnered so much attention from fans that there were reports that the lowest ticket price was over 10 million won, but Alcaraz gained momentum by taking the first and second sets relatively easily.
This is because Djokovic’s performance was not at its best, having withdrawn from the quarterfinals of the French Open in June due to a knee injury and then underwent surgery.
Djokovic, who competed in this tournament just over a month after undergoing surgery on his right knee, showed his ability to reach the final wearing a brace on his right knee, but was unable to claim the title.
Alcaras took the lead easily, escaping with a score of 5-1 in the early part of the first set, and the second set was also one-sided, 6-2, in Alcaras’ favor. The second set took only 1 hour and 15 minutes.
Djokovic, who started off 0-2 by losing his first serve in both sets, tried to change the mood of the match by holding his first serve in the third set.
He even roared after barely holding on to his serve game after five deuces when the game score was 1-1.
Alcaraz, who was leading 5-4 in the third set, had a triple championship point at 40-0 in his own serve game, but failed to capitalize on it, and the game seemed to change in a strange way as the score became 5-5.
This is because Djokovic took Alcaraz’s serve for the first time that day, making it 5-5.
However, Alcaraz eventually won 7-4 in the tiebreak, concluding the 2-hour and 27-minute close match with a victory.
Djokovic, who has yet to win an ATP Tour event this year, was attempting to win a record 25 major singles titles by a man or woman at Wimbledon, but will now wait until next time.
A bid to equal Federer’s record of eight Wimbledon men’s singles titles will have to be attempted again in 2025.
After Wimbledon, the world rankings remain as Yannick Sinner (Italy) remains at number 1, followed by Djokovic at number 2 and Alcaraz at number 3. 파워볼사이트