2023-07-16 23:13 United Daily News reporter Zeng Siru / real-time report “Little Bull” Alcaraz.Xinhua News Agency
The Wimbledon men’s singles final staged a cross-generational top showdown. The 36-year-old Serbian star Novak Djokovic (Novak Djokovic) who is seeking to defend his title and the current Spanish champion “Little Bull” Alcaraz (Carlos Alcaraz) confronted and won the first set One-sided advantage, but in the second set “Grab 7”, Alcaraz collapsed a small point at the end of the set and tied the set 1:1.
This year is the 18th time for Xiaoyue to participate in Wimbledon, and the 9th knockout final is also the 35th Grand Slam final of his career; facing last year’s US Open champion Alcaraz, Xiaoyue broke serve twice in the first set. Opened an absolute lead of 5:0, and took the lead with 6:1.
In the second set, Alcaraz served first. After he successfully secured his serve, Xiaoyue made a double fault on his first serve, but fell behind 0:30 and scored 4 goals in a row. However, Alcaraz forced two break points in succession. And at the second opportunity, Xiaoyue returned the ball out of bounds, and succeeded in breaking serve for the first time; Alcaraz failed to continue the momentum of breaking serve, and was also broken back in the third game.
In “Grab 7”, Alcaraz went from 0:3 behind to 5:4, but Xiaoyue made a comeback by 2 points. Returning the ball to the net to get his own “end point”, and at the first opportunity to win the set, he hit the winning goal back and tied the set with 8:6.
This is also the first time Xiaoyue lost in the “grab 7” in this year’s Grand Slam.
Xiao Yue is the defending champion of Wimbledon. If he can complete the 5 consecutive championships this year, he will be able to tie the “Swiss Express” Roger Federer (Roger Federer)’s 8 grass Grand Slam titles, and at the same time tie the women’s tennis legend Margaret. Court’s 24 Grand Slam records.
The 36-year-old Xiaoyue won the French Open last month. With 23 Grand Slam gold cups, he is the most in men’s tennis. If Wimbledon can reach the top again, he will have the opportunity to challenge the first “all-inclusive” player to complete 4 Grand Slams in the same year since 1969. Grand Slam” record.
The 20-year-old Alcaraz is about 16 years younger. When he won his first Grand Slam at the Australian Open in 2008, Alcaraz was under 5 years old. The difference between the two is 15 years and 348 days. The grand slam final is a generational duel with the third age difference; if Xiao Yue wins the championship, he will become the oldest Wimbledon champion, and Alcaraz will seek the third youngest men’s singles champion in the grass-court Grand Slam.
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2023-07-16 15:13:06
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