Tennis - Wimbledon - All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, London, Britain - July 14, 2024 Spain's Carlos Alcaraz is awarded with the trophy by Britain's Catherine, Princess of Wales after winning his men's singles final against Serbia's Novak Djokovic REUTERS/Hannah Mckay
Carlos Alcaraz has exposed” his new nickname” Novak Djokovic privately called him and Lewis Hamilton message…..
Carlos Alcaraz disclosed that he was “surprised” to get a text from Lewis Hamilton and that, immediately following the Wimbledon final, Novak Djokovic called him by his new moniker. On Center Court, the 21-year-old Spanish wonder easily defeated the 37-year-old 24-time Grand Slam champion Djokovic in straight sets.
After defeating Djokovic in a thrilling five-set match the previous year, it was Alcaraz’s second consecutive All England Club victory and his fourth major championship overall.
“When I saw him this year at Wimbledon for the first time, and he was dealing with his knee, we joked and I told him he was a superhuman, a titan,” Alcaraz told Spanish outlet Marca. “There was a moment we shared at the net after the winning point,” Djokovic said.
Since then, every time we saw each other here he called me a titan and on the net he said to me: ‘Titan, congratulations, you deserve it’. I don’t remember much else.”
I don’t know what the future holds for me. In the end, the future is uncertain and anything can happen in a few years, things can turn in many directions, one way or the other,” he confessed. “We can’t take anything for granted. What I can say is that we’re going to fight.
We know we’re on the right path, doing things right. If we continue with this ambition, this desire to train and fight every day, I think I can do great things, so let’s continue down this path and see what the future holds for us.”
Should Alcaraz clinch the US Open title later this year, he will join an elite group of just five men in the Open Era to have won three out of four slams in a calendar year. This comes after his triumph at the French Open last month.
The first to achieve this feat was Mats Wilander in 1988, with the so-called ‘Big Three’, Roger Federer, Rafa Nadal and Djokovic, following in the Swede’s footsteps in the new millennium.
