{"id":965692,"date":"2024-07-14T16:19:44","date_gmt":"2024-07-14T16:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=965692"},"modified":"2024-07-14T16:19:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T16:19:44","slug":"dominant-alcaraz-blows-away-djokovic-to-retain-wimbledon-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/dominant-alcaraz-blows-away-djokovic-to-retain-wimbledon-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominant Alcaraz blows away Djokovic to retain Wimbledon title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tr-story-p1\">Spain&#8217;s Carlos Alcaraz produced an utterly ruthless performance to dismantle Serbia&#8217;s Novak Djokovic 6-2 6-2 7-6(4) in a rematch of last year&#8217;s Wimbledon final to successfully defend his title on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz now has four Grand Slam trophies with a perfect record in major finals, after his two Wimbledon triumphs, his US Open victory in 2022 and his French Open win last month.<\/p>\n<p>Defeat denied Djokovic a 25th Grand Slam title to surpass Margaret Court in the all-time list and also equal Roger Federer&#8217;s haul of eight men&#8217;s singles titles at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz pounced on his fifth break point in a tight first game that lasted 14 minutes, before the 21-year-old third seed dropped the hammer and powered through the opening set on the back of some solid serving.<\/p>\n<p>Second seed Djokovic came under more pressure at the start of the next set as Alcaraz bullied the 37-year-old in the early exchanges to break and capitalised on his service woes for an imposing two-set lead.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic and Alcaraz went toe-to-toe until 4-4 in the third set before the Spaniard broke with a big backhand winner to take a 5-4 lead. However, despite being 40-0 up, he squandered three match points and dropped serve.<\/p>\n<p>He tamed his nerves to clinch victory in the tiebreak when Djokovic crashed a return into the net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defeat denied Djokovic a 25th Grand Slam title to surpass Margaret Court in the all-time list<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":965693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[225],"tags":[1235,886,1236,389,1189,1237],"class_list":["post-965692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-carlos-alcaraz","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-serbia","tag-spain","tag-tennis","tag-wimbledon-title"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}