Tennis star Novak Djokovic has actually bested Matteo Berrettini in the 2021 Wimbledon males’s last on Sunday, connecting the males’s all-time record for the majority of Grand Slams won.
Djokovic, 34, won the match versus Italy’s Berrettini, 25, to clinch his 20th Grand Slam songs title. The win ties him with fellow tennis stars Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, who likewise won 20 Grand Slam songs titles.
After holding back Berrettini in 4 sets, Sunday’s win was the Serbian tennis star’s 6th title at Wimbledon.
Djokovic stretched on the ground after Berrettini struck the web in the last minute of the match as the crowd roared around him. After the match, the set shook hands and briefly welcomed.
Djokovic praised Berrettini and called him “the Italian hammer.” Then, he remembered his own youth imagine Wimbledon.
“Winning Wimbledon was always a biggest dream of mine when I was a kid … I have to remind myself how special this is and not take it for granted,” Djokovic stated, remembering how, when he was a 7-year-old in Serbia he made his own Wimbledon prize, as he pictured one day winning the genuine thing.
“Today, standing with the sixth Wimbledon, it’s incredible. Amazing,” he stated.
Djokovic stated that now that he Federer and Nadal are connected for the most males’s songs Grand Slam titles, he anticipates the 3 of them will continue completing till among them makes the most titles.
“They are legends of our sport and they are the two most important players that I ever faced in my career. They are, I think, the reason that I am where I am today,” he stated.
Earlier in the year, Djokovic won his 19th Grand Slam title at the 2021 French Open in June and his 18th at the Australian Open in February. He is likewise thought about the safeguarding champ of Wimbledon, winning the Grand Slam in 2019 versus Roger Federer.
Wimbledon was not kept in 2020 due to Covid-19.
Djokovic had actually formerly beaten Berrettini throughout a match at the French Open.
On the method to the last video game Berrettini beat Hubert Hurkacz, of Poland, who had actually formerly beat Federer. Djokovic had actually beat Denis Shapovalov, of Canada, to advance to the finals.
Berrettini’s look in the last match at Wimbledon was the very first of any Italian individual, male or female, according to The Guardian.
He has yet to win his very first Grand Slam.
