Carlos Alcaraz handed a straight-sets defeat to Novak Djokovic in the Wimbledon 2024 Men's Singles Final on Sunday (July 24) to emerge as the champion. It was a rematch of the 2023 Wimbledon final but while on that occasion, Alcaraz had to come back from behind and work hard to earn that championship in a five-setter finale, in 2024 it seemed like a coming of age for the youngster.
Alcaraz breezed past Djokovic in the first two sets and even though the Serbian did put on a fight in the third set, eventually it was the Spaniard who came out on top, winning the tie-breaker 7-4. With the win, Alcaraz set up a flurry of records with a few listed underneath.
List Of Records Created By Carlos Alcaraz
- Alcaraz became the second manin Open Era to win his first four Grand Slam final. The other being Roger Federer who had won his first seven finals.
-The winner of the two-hour 27-minute-long final, Alcaraz, became the sixth man in the Open Era to win the Roland Garros-Wimbledon double in the same year, joining Rod Laver, Bjorn Borg, Rafael Nadal, Federer and Djokovic to have achieved the feat.
- Alcaraz beat Djkovic in the Wimbledon 2024 final. He had won the Wimbledon 2023 final also against the same opposition who is a seven-time champion of the Grass Court major.
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- This was Alcaraz's fouth Grand slam win and his second Wimbledon title, becoming one of the youngest to the same at 21 years of age.
- In the head-to-head series with Djokovic, Alcaraz is now tied at 3-3.
- He has taken fewer matches than 'Big 3' of Federer, Nadal and Djokovic to claim his fourth major crown.