Tiziana Scalabrine

And instead, in the end, the fact of having obtained this result, even as a younger person, but the result of the completion of the slams, which then proves that you have reached a very high level of maturity, and having done it in a game that, as you say, has been very mature,

symbolically it is beautiful, it is right, it is something that gives a particular flavor to the victory, despite what I said before, in short, that is a more comprehensive judgment on the health of the circuit, the fact that it could be more difficult to get to this point.

However, the game actually had a lot of interesting points and I really liked the game that there is in this game, I really liked it.

I liked the fact that probably, as he suspected, as he could have said himself and others, beating Cinderella in the same slam is a feat that at this moment is perhaps not within anyone's reach.

However, we also said it at the beginning of the tournament, Djokovic spent a year, indeed two years, in which, despite not being able to win titles again, he always lost only with them and in this case he proved even more to be totally, absolutely at that level.

because for how the game started, the quality of his tennis during the first set was stratospheric.

It was really, really exciting.

Is it true what you say that Alcaraz couldn't get into the game so much?

However, Djokovic knew that if he had let him in, it would have been too complicated.

I probably told him I don't want to take anything away from my opponent, so I don't want to talk about physical problems, but in the second and third set he completely lacked the legs, the energy to continue doing that thing.

which must be a monstrous difficulty, to be so attached, to take away time from a player like Alcaraz, to express that quality, that perfection of the game, it was surreal.

I don't know if the statistics say something like four unforced errors, but I don't even remember them.

Four unforced errors because in a certain case you can consider a ball a unforced error, but maybe it's still that threshold between unforced and unforced, always a bit debatable.

In general, it was spatial and he managed, even in the fourth set, to remake the game anyway, despite after the two sets won by Alcaraz saying, I'm going back in and I'll win it in the fifth.

It would have been a real undertaking, I think.

It's different, it's different.

God, Djokovic is not someone who has never been tired, it's just that he had a lot of lives in a game and now he has less, in the sense that very often he had those phases in which he was accused of faking injuries, tiredness, concessions that had to be just a simulation, but then he was always able to take it back or

Or he is also the person who was accused by Federer, by Roddick in the early stages of his career of not being at the height of this sport because he retired too often.

And then there is the story he tells, he found the gluten-free diet and everything changed.

I believed so much in that kind of Djokovic, the one from the final of the Olympics, that I really hoped that maybe leaving the second set was part of his strategy, of his energy management within the match, in which he was calculating that by letting Alcaraz escape, he could then return to play for a set.