By Shrivathsa Sridhar
LONDON (Reuters) – Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz produced an totally ruthless efficiency to dismantle Serbia’s Novak Djokovic 6-2 6-2 7-6(4) in a rematch of final yr’s Wimbledon closing to efficiently defend his title on Sunday.
Alcaraz now has 4 Grand Slam trophies with an ideal document in main finals, after his two Wimbledon triumphs, his U.S. Open victory in 2022 and his French Open win final month.
Defeat denied Djokovic a twenty fifth Grand Slam title to surpass Margaret Court docket within the all-time checklist and in addition equal Roger Federer’s haul of eight males’s singles titles at Wimbledon.
Alcaraz pounced on his fifth break level in a decent first sport that lasted 14 minutes, earlier than the 21-year-old third seed dropped the hammer and powered by way of the opening set on the again of some stable serving.
Second seed Djokovic got here beneath extra strain at first of the subsequent set as Alcaraz bullied the 37-year-old within the early exchanges to interrupt and capitalised on his service woes for an imposing two-set lead.
Djokovic and Alcaraz went toe-to-toe till 4-4 within the third set earlier than the Spaniard broke with a giant backhand winner to take a 5-4 lead. Nevertheless, regardless of being 40-0 up, he squandered three match factors and dropped serve.
He tamed his nerves to clinch victory within the tiebreak when Djokovic crashed a return into the online.
