We’ve been talking about the changing of the guard in the tennis world for years now.. The fascination with retiring Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Rafa Nadal has led to an increase in players from different generations.
From Grigor Dimitrov and Dominic Thiem, through Alexander Zverev and Daniil Medvedev, no one has disputed the dominance of the ‘Big Three’…until now.
Alcaraz’s victory at Wimbledon, his second in a row and his fourth Grand Slam title, seemed to usher in a new era. This is what one of those who fell by the wayside believes: Nick Kyrgios.
“wow I love Djokovic, but is this the first time we can say ‘changing of the guard’?” he wrote on his Twitter account after the final.
And at Roland Garros, Carlos Alcaraz became the first sub-21 to win on all three surfaces of the Grand Slams.: He opened his history on hard court at the US Open (2022), continued it on grass at Wimbledon (2023) and succeeded on the land of Paris in 2024.
At 21 years old he repeated at the All England Club, conquering that fourth Grand Slam placing him at the head of the all-time professional classification of the under-21 categoryequal to the German Boris Becker and the Swedes Mats Wilander and Bjorn Borg.
It was a feat to illustrate the fact that he chained Roland Garros and Wimbledon in the same season. He is only the thirteenth male tennis player of all time to achieve this. The difficulty is evidenced by the fact that the latest doubles were signed by members of the ‘Big 3’ Rafa Nadal, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic. In addition to the Swede Bjorn Borg, who made the chaining both ‘good’ into an art, which eventually failed at the US Open.
At the young age of 21, only René Lacoste and Lewis Hoad have done the double. Nadal achieved it for the first time at the age of 23. His dictatorship at Roland Garros meant that Federer and Djokovic had to wait until they were 27 and 34, respectively.
Source: La Verdad
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