Chris Almeida: We're here in the United States on championship Sunday, and on the other side of the world guess what happened? Novak Djokovic won the Australian Open. Who could have seen this coming? Poor Stefanos Tsitsipas made another valiant effort, maybe a little bit less valiant than last time, but it was not even close to enough. He lost in straight sets. 3-6, 6-7, 6-7. Can you fault him, though? Nobody has managed to beat Djokovic at this tournament in a long time. And you didn't have a lot of confidence that he was going to be the guy. He wasn't.
So, the match isn't really the notable thing here. We've got to talk about records and boy, does it look like Novak Djokovic is going to shatter every single one of them. He has 22 majors now—as many as Rafa Nadal and two more than Roger Federer. He is the only active and healthy player out of the three. It doesn't really seem like any of the younger players on tour are going to be able to stop him. So, and I say this with all seriousness: you have to be thinking 30-plus majors is a possibility. When's the next time he's going to lose, especially if Nadal is not healthy at the French Open, which he very well might not be?
Jon Wertheim: It's death taxes and Djokovic winning in Australia. This is 10 finals and he's never lost a final. He's 35 years old and he lost one set and that was against the qualifier where he just went away for half an hour. But to me the the point is: who's going to challenge this guy from below? I mean, here's my stat of the day: Djokovic was born in 1987. So he's gonna be 36 this year. And he's he's the youngest active Australian Open champion.
