In the deciding set of Sunday’s Grand Slam championship match, Carlos Alcaraz made a fateful determination: to be his daring, all-court, attacking self. It paid off.
, all those years ago. The best player of this golden era, in top form, was facing the only younger player with a game to push him, and possibly defeat him, in a five-set match, on tennis’s biggest stage. It was, in other words, what tennis had been waiting for.
Alcaraz spent the first set determined to meet Djokovic’s ground strokes inside the baseline and to strike nearly every ball to Djokovic’s forehand as hard as he could. He rushed everything. Djokovic focussed on landing his ground strokes deep, and was happy to extend rallies, to find his rhythm and wait for Alcaraz to miss. On the first break point that Alcaraz saw, in the initial game of the match, he sailed a service return long; Djokovic held serve soon afterward.
In the first game of the third set, Djokovic again netted a routine backhand, off a loopy Alcaraz inside-out forehand. This one earned Alcaraz an early break. By now, Djokovic’s body language was that of a player surprised to find himself in trouble.
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