Emanuele Atturo

Djokovic, in my opinion, at the end saved the face, he made a more than dignified figure.

but he also confirmed that he didn't really have the chance to win.

Alcaraz, however, also this game, in my opinion, told us some interesting things about him.

For example, the way he agreed to lose that first set in which Djokovic played splendidly, and he was a bit out of it, even on the legs, always a bit late on the ball.

He was hitting badly, but he really adjusted everything, he was very patient, he changed his game plan a little bit.

He also agreed to work more on the exchange and not always look for absurd winners, because Djokovic, as he did with Sinner, tried to set a very fast context in which he took command with great urgency.

And obviously a tennis player like Alcraz, on something like that, imagine if he just tries to make a cut.

Instead, from the second set he did it, he started to pull, for example, the reverse always diagonally, he increased the diagonal hits by 40% compared to the long line, so accepting a little more of a diagonal for him, theoretically disadvantageous, but

being more solid in the exchange, in the coverage of the field.

And in the end he managed to generate this friction, to play with more patience, to play more placed shots, which in the end slowly accumulated on Djokovic's legs.

There was only one moment in the fourth set in which then Djokovic managed to regain some condition, to play

solito tennis mentale in cui ha annullato svariate se non sbaglio quattro palle brecca d'alcaraz e poi arriva a regalarsi una opportunità 6 che però 6 6 l'opportunità una palla break che l'avrebbe portato poi a servire per portare la partita al quinto ma ha sbagliato un dritto

quite simple maneuver and Alcaraz at that time was a bit confused a bit messy but in general it was a very mature game on his part very intelligent that confirms one that

who had doubts about Ferrero, in short, that Ferrero could be, how to say, the deus ex machina, the great bullfighter of Alcaraz, must of course regret it, and that he is a player, now even mature, who has overcome certain of his idiosyncrasies, not completely, because he remains a player quite instinctive, but a player...

who is no longer self-suffering in games, he won a big tournament, he is a crazy player.

Someone says he is the most complete player in the history of tennis, do you agree?

What did you like?

It would have been impossible, but taking it to the fifth would have been another medal of pride, which was perhaps the main goal of Djokovic in this match, which it seems to me that even he didn't really believe he could win, at least he needed a great contribution from Alcaraz, as he had in part of Sinner in the semi-final.

But I think that I, like most reasonable people, am against generations, but unfortunately Djokovic forces us to do it because he is really the ghost of a past era that continues to infest the present.

And that first set he played against Alcaraz and the quality of the tennis expressed with Sinner gives us a taste of the level of...