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Emma Loffhagen and Katie Strick

Carlos Alcaraz: the unstoppable rise of Wimbledon’s new winner (and tennis’ youngest-ever No.1)

The new king of centre court. The best of Roger, Rafa and Novak with a Spanish bull mentality. A complete player at 20.

These are just some of the phrases being used to describe Carlos Alcaraz, tennis’ “unbelievable” new golden boy who just fought his way into the history books to become Wimbledon’s new champion — the first to break the tournament’s Djokovic-Nadal-Federer-Murray cycle since 2002 and one of its youngest ever male winners (Boris Becker still has the record, winning the men’s singles title in 1985 at just 17).

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