The 20-year-old Spaniard beat Novak Djokovic in a classic final that felt like a changing of the generational guard.
. But this match felt different. There is something inexorable about Alcaraz, as if the Spaniard has endless reserves of power in his deceptively trim frame. There is, too, a mental indomitability that is almost frightening to behold in someone who is only 20 years old, his close-set eyes and heavy brow giving the impression that his focus is tunneling ever tighter, that there is not a single thought in his head but that little yellow ball and how to bash it.
Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz reacts to beating Serbia’s Novak Djokovic during their men’s singles final tennis match on the last day of the 2023 Wimbledon Championships.He needed both these qualities to triumph against Djokovic, who began the match breezily, winning the first set, 6-1, by doing the usual Djokovic things: racing all over the court and stretching his elastic limbs like Mister Fantastic, so that no groundstroke could possibly get by him.
Alcaraz was frustrated and perplexed. He used a long and grinding second set to figure out his opponent, though that misleadingly implies that Djokovic was some puzzle to be solved, an intricate lock requiring an artful key, when what really happened is that Alcaraz simply overpowered him, taking a battering ram to the great wall of defense Djokovic had built.
As is his wont, Djokovic found a mysterious extra gear in the fourth set, turning the psychological composition of the match on its head. Whereas before he had been flat on his back — sometimes literally so when he would lose his footing chasing down Alcaraz’s bullets — now he summoned all his wiles and re-established his dreadful consistency.
But Alcaraz, it turns out, has his own hidden gears. In the beginning of the fifth set, he won a series of tense, scrambling rallies that turned the tide once and for all, mixing up his cannon fire with drop shots and lobs and improbable returns that left Djokovic running ragged and, for once, looking his 36 years.
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