![]() ![]() I was thinking, I hope he doesn't come,' because he was pretty close to me and V. The man, wearing only a shirt, jumped onto the court, sprinted across the sidelines and made several dance moves.įirst, I saw him jump over and then I noticed he didn't have underwear on,'' Williams said after her third-round singles victory over China's Peng Shuai.I thought, `OK, I must be seeing things.' While it was no laughing matter for tournament officials, who have beefed up security this year and were dealing with a near-riot a half-hour later between Serbian and Bosnian fans, the incident was just a brief distraction for Williams, who said she was focused on beating Japan's Ayumi Morita and Germany's Martina Muller 6-3, 6-3. ![]() ``I just thought, my eyes, my innocent eyes,'' Williams said Saturday, still chuckling at the memory. A nearly naked man had just run on court while she and sister Venus were playing doubles at the Australian Open, prancing around before being arrested. Djokovic appeared to have trouble with his right arm and was never able to break Alcaraz back.MELBOURNE, Australia(AP) Serena Williams couldn't believe what she was seeing. ![]() He followed by breaking Djokovic the following game. A save on a break point in the second game of the fifth set appeared to re-energize him. Djokovic cruised from there to send the match to a decisive fifth set.Īlcaraz looked like he might struggle to recover. After a long break between the third and fourth sets, he came back refocused and broke Alcaraz in the fifth game. He then made quick work of the rest of the set to win 6-1 and take a two sets-to-one lead in the match.ĭjokovic didn't go quietly. Alcaraz fought off eight game points from Djokovic - and had seven break points himself - before winning. The numbers don't lie: 33 points, 13 deuces, nearly 27 minutes. He broke him again to go up 4-1 in what was instantly hailed one of the most thrilling games in Wimbledon history. It also ended Djokovic's stunning Grand Slam streak of 15 straight tiebreakers won.Īlcaraz continued the momentum by breaking Djokovic in the opening game of the third set. Alcaraz had to fight off one set point from Djokovic before finally prevailing 9-7 in the tiebreaker to even the match at one set apiece. Djokovic initially went down 2-0 before battling back, and the set stayed on serve until the tiebreaker. The last time the 36-yesr-old Djokovic lost at Wimbledon, Alcaraz was only 10 years old.Īfter Djokovic breezed through a 6-1 first set, the second set defined the type of thrilling back-and-forth action expected of this emerging rivalry. In a generational battle matching the king of men’s tennis and the young Spanish star intent on taking his throne, Carlos Alcaraz knocked off Novak Djokovic in a thrilling five-set match 1-6, 7-6 (9-7), 6-1, 3-6, 6-4 to win his first Wimbledon championship and his second major overall.Īlcaraz’s victory at the All England Club denied Djokovic the 24th Grand Slam title of his career - and his third in 2023.Īlcaraz, 20, was the youngest Wimbledon finalist since 2006. ![]() (Photo by Victoria Jones/PA Images via Getty Images) Carlos Alcaraz celebrates a break of serve in the fifth set during the Gentlemen's Singles final against Novak Djokovic on day fourteen of the 2023 Wimbledon Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon. ![]()
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