{"id":167668,"date":"2024-07-14T18:05:42","date_gmt":"2024-07-14T16:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=167668"},"modified":"2024-07-14T18:31:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T16:31:13","slug":"novak-lifts-runner-up-trophy-in-london-alcaraz-retains-wimbledon-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-lifts-runner-up-trophy-in-london-alcaraz-retains-wimbledon-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak lifts runner-up trophy in London, Alcaraz retains Wimbledon title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Less than 40 days after undergoing knee surgery, Nole was playing in his 10th Wimbledon Final.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Carlos Alcaraz, who was the defending champion, successfully defended his title, beating seven-time former winner Novak Djokovic in two hours and 27 minutes, 6\u20132, 6-2, 7\u20136 (4).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The third-seeded Spaniard raced to two-set lead against the Serbian star in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wimbledon.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wimbledon<\/a> final. He made a brilliant start to the Sunday\u2019s championship match. After breaking Djokovic twice in the first set, Alcaraz also repeated the feat in the second.<\/p>\n<p>The third set was more competitive. The Spaniard broke first again, but this time Novak responded after saving three consecutive match points. However, Alcaraz played great in the tie-break and sealed the well-deserved triumph.<\/p>\n<p>It was the second consecutive SW19 final between the two players.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cObviously it is not the result that I wanted and especially in the first couple of sets, the level of tennis wasn\u2019t up to par, really, from my side,&#8221;<\/strong> said Djokovic at the trophy ceremony. <strong>&#8220;But credit to Carlos for playing some complete tennis. From the back of the court, on serve, he had it all today. I tried to push him and saved the three match points, extended the match a little bit, but it wasn\u2019t meant to be really. He was an absolutely deserved winner today, so congratulations to him for amazing tennis.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (8-5), double faults (4-6), winners (26-42), unforced errors (25-24), total points won (87-109).<\/p>\n<p>Graceful in defeat, Djokovic shared a smile and warm embrace with Alcaraz at the net after the defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Novak was bidding for men&#8217;s record-equalling eighth Wimbledon title.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Alcaraz, who was the defending champion, successfully defended his title, defeating seven-time former winner Novak Djokovic in two hours and 27 minutes, 6\u20132, 6-2, 7\u20136 (4).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":167682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101010437,101010469,101012193,1526,101011449,101013406],"class_list":["post-167668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-final-en","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-london-en","tag-runner-up","tag-the-championships-en","tag-wimbledon-2024-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167668"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167684,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167668\/revisions\/167684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}