With Carlos Alcaraz’s Wimbledon Win, Into the Tennis Future We Go

Sometimes stardom come through side doors and service entrances. But Sunday at Wimbledon centre court, Carlos Alcaraz achieved it by going through the front door— smashing it down, in fact. In a spellbinding insta-classic, he beat Novak Djokovic in the Wimbledon final 1–6, 7-6(6), 6–1, 3–6, 6–4.

Alcaraz gave a full expression of his vast battery of skills. If this match lived up to its billing though, it certainly didn’t play out as anyone expected. This was not so much a tennis match as a five-act melodrama. 

Djokovic had won the last four men’s titles at Wimbledon.

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