2023 welcomed two new Wimbledon Singles Champions in Carlos Alcaraz and Marketa Vondrousova.
In a pulsating Men’s Final the young Spaniard beat seven times champion Novak Djokovic in one of the best finals ever in a match that took over five hours. Alcaraz is the first player outside of the so called big four of Federer, Djokovic, Nadal and Murray to win the Men’s Singles Championship since 2002. If Djokovic had won, he would have equalled Federer’s record of eight singles titles.
History was made at the Australian Open in when Spain’s Rafael Nadal won his 21st Grand Slam which puts him one ahead of his great rival’s Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic.
In a pulsating final he stormed back from two sets to love down to defeat Russia’s Daniil Medvedev three sets to two.
Switzerland’s Dominic Thiem won his first Grand Slam title in New York defeating Russia’s Alexander Zverev whilst in the Ladies competition Japan’s Naomi Osaka defeated Belarus’s Victoria Azarenka.
When will tennis resume this year many people are asking with the cancellation of Wimbledon and the postponement of the French Open until September.
Due to COVID-19 the French Open has been put back to the end of September from May in the hope that by the threat of COVID-19 would have eased allowing for sporting events to take place again, which is by no means guaranteed.
Novak Djokovic moved closer to Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal’s Grand Slam totals with a convincing display at the Australian Open where he won his eighth Australian Open title which is a record.
In the final he defeated Austria’s Dominic Thiem in five sets despite being two sets to one down and is now just three grand slams behind Federer and two behind Nadal. The victory also resulted in him becoming world number one again. Thiem will see it as another missed opportunity, this was his third Grand Slam final and third defeat.
The Wimbledon Championships came to an end on Sunday and produced two memorable finals with Simona Halep winning her first title and Novak Djokovic his fifth.
Simona Halep went into Saturday’s final against Serena Williams, who could well be the best female player of all time, who was looking for her record equalling 24th Grand Slam.
Novak Djokovic and Naomi Osaka won the Men’s and Ladies singles championships at the Australian Open in Melbourne defeating Rafael Nadal and Petra Kvitová respectively.
The ATP Tour Finals start this week at London’s O2 Arena which brings together the top eight men’s singles and doubles players together for this end of season show down which determines who will end the year as world number one.
Spectators are guaranteed to see some big names such as Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic along with the best doubles players in the world such as Great Britain’s Jamie Murray.
A few years ago, people were beginning to write off Roger Federer especially since Novak Djokovic was in such fine form and had beaten Federer in a couple of Wimbledon finals.
Since then Federer has burst back into life winning two Australian Open titles and one Wimbledon title and is favourite for this year’s title at the age of 36.
If someone had told Roger Federer that he would be going into the US Open as favourite, having already won two Grand Slams this year, he would no doubt have thought that person was crazy.
