Novak Djokovic could not with Carlos Alcaraz in the 2022 edition of the Mutua Madrid Open. Yes, she beat him in the semifinals of the last Roland Garrosbut fell again to the Spanish tennis player in the highly anticipated final of Wimbledon. A match that went until the fifth set and that left images to remember.
Really ‘Carlitos’ raise your second Grand Slam to Djokovic’s tears when asked after the final why he was going to tell his children. Also a long list of VIPs, especially with a Brad Pitt in the stands that left more than one and one speechless.
Although the sequence that has left a consequence is the one that starred in the very ‘No’. The Serbian tennis player, desperate, hit with his racket the wood of the net of the central court of the All England Tennis Club. An action that has come out $8,000 (7,110 euros to change).
It is not the first time that the de Belgrade bringing out the worst version of his character on a tennis court. And this time it has led him to be financially sanctioned by the Wimbledon organization. This considering that Novak Djokovic had unsportsmanlike conduct with the aforementioned gesture.
‘Nole’ lost his temper and all because he was surpassed by a Carlos Alcaraz before whom he later lavished praise. “What a quality at the end of the game, when you had to close it out. You’ve taken good shots in the big moments and you totally deserve it. It’s incredible,” he said after receiving his runner-up trophy.
[Carlos Alcaraz se hace un ‘Sergio Ramos’: se le cae el trofeo de campeón de Wimbledon en plena entrevista con la CNN]
And not only that. The Serbian also compared Alcaraz with the well-known ‘Big Three’ of which he himself is a part together with Rafael Nadal y Roger Federer: “His game consists of a mixture of certain elements from Roger, Rafa and myself. I agree with that. He has the best of all three worlds.”
moment of frustration
Djokovic slammed his racket against the wood of the net after Alcaraz broke his serve in the fifth set of the Wimbledon final. Although the truth is that throughout the tournament he has been seen ‘getting out of the game’ with several run-ins with the All England Club public. There were fans in favor of him, too, but the general trend over the past two weeks is a lack of affection, if you will, for the winner of 23 Grand Slam titles.
2023-07-17 20:45:06
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