The Championships, Wimbledon 2024

[Alan Stallion]

2024 Ladies' Singles Champions
Barbora Krejcikova (CZE)

2024 Gentlemen's Doubles Champions
Harri Heliovaara (FIN) & Henry Patten (GBR)

2024 Ladies' Doubles Champions
Katerina Siniakova (CZE) & Taylor Townsend (USA)

 

[Alan Stallion]

Final day of play!

Ready?

Play

 

[Alan Stallion]

2024 Gentlemen's Singles Champion
Carlos Alcaraz (ESP)

defeats Novak Djokovic 6-2, 6-2, 7-6

 

[Uriel80]

2024 Gentlemen's Singles Champion
Carlos Alcaraz (ESP)

defeats Novak Djokovic 6-2, 6-2, 7-6

Alcaraz's win was not surprising but he won it in straight sets which was a bit of a surprise for me.

 

[Alan Stallion]

Yeah, broke Djokovic twice in each of the first two sets... Very surprising how Alcaraz dominated the first two sets. The first game of the match went an epic 14 minutes on Djokovic's serve and really set the tone for the match.

Alcarez had three match points on his serve to win the championship prior to a third-set tiebreak, but then Djokovic broke back to make it interesting and Alcaraz showed a bit of nerves for the first time. Alcarez got the win in the third set tiebreaker and established himself as a repeat champion of Wimbledon and the new King of Wimbledon.

 

[Alan Stallion]

The final match of the day and the tournament...

2024 Mixed Doubles Champions
Jan Zielinski (POL) & Hsieh Su-Wei (TPE)

 

[lantern2814]

Alcaraz may be positioning himself as the next dominant men's player. The dominance in those first two sets was a bit surprising.

 

[ShahdagMountains]

Alcaraz may be positioning himself as the next dominant men's player. The dominance in those first two sets was a bit surprising.

Do you think he might have peaked too early?

He has a long way ahead to maintain that fire.

 

[ShahdagMountains]

I so wanted Djokovic to win.

But maybe age, the scourge of the athlete, is kicking in.

 

[luiza]

I so wanted Djokovic to win.

But maybe age, the scourge of the athlete, is kicking in.

If you followed the sport all year you should have realised that Djoko was a 5-1 chance( best) in a two horse race .

Just like England was a 9/4 chance to beat Spain at football on sunday evening .

My odds, but I derive 80% of all my betting income from football and Tennis .

Tennis question :-
Why would a 37 year old who lost to the same guy a year ago do any better this year , and when he has had knee surgery 4-5 weeks earlier ?
Keep it factual and simple . And this year it was an annihilation not a 5 set battle .

 

[Alan Stallion]

14 Minute Opening Game of the 2024 Gentlemen's Final


Love these epic deuce games. Hate when matches have no-ad scoring (happens sometimes in mixed doubles matches)

One of my all-time favorite epic deuce matches was 1995 Ladies' Final between Steffi Graf and Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario
(cued up at 5-all in the final set)

 

[ShahdagMountains]

Keep it factual and simple . And this year it was an annihilation not a 5 set battle .

As if we didn’t know.

Djokovic himself said as much.

Was that simple enough for you?

 

[luiza]

As if we didn’t know.

Djokovic himself said as much.

Was that simple enough for you?

The difference is I said it beforehand , and here during the match two people ( both women players ) were adamant that Djoko would win . Sentimentality .

And in the Euros I selected the two finalists beforehand , believing Spain to be favourites .
See early posts .

It is important to me because I derive so much of my total income from specialised betting .
And nearly all the huge profit then goes into physical precious metals in front of the petrodollar collapse .

 

[Fiero425]

The difference is I said it beforehand , and here during the match two people ( both women players ) were adamant that Djoko would win . Sentimentality .

And in the Euros I selected the two finalists beforehand , believing Spain to be favourites .
See early posts .

It is important to me because I derive so much of my total income from specialised betting .
And nearly all the huge profit then goes into physical precious metals in front of the petrodollar collapse .

Djokovic has made it a mission to prove people are idiots & don't know him, writing him off quite early back in 2010! He not only started his march towards Goat-dom by taking the Davis Cup for his country, Serbia, Novak went over 40 matches in a row into 2011 before dropping his 1st match since the end of 2010 YEC at the FO to Federer in the SF! He has amazed the Tennis Intelligentsia and the history books by achieving records that may never be surpassed including 24 Majors, 40 Masters, 8 YE #1's, 7 YEC's, and extended Federer's 310 wks. at #1 to what he's still can add to at 428 weeks! Getting to that Wimbledon final was an achievement in itself, but his luck ran out at 37 years old losing to a 21 y.o. Carlos Alcaraz in straight sets! He did all that having meniscus surgery on his knee just a month ago! Everything's gravy now & may not be worth fighting for besides an Olympic Gold Medal! This will be his last chance in Paris on clay next month!

 

[Mr. Friscus]

Do you think he might have peaked too early?

He has a long way ahead to maintain that fire.

I'm not sure how you can "peak too early" in tennis.

Winning multiple majors gets any monkey off your back.