What\u2019s at stake then, besides copious quantities of pride? Having already beaten Jannik Sinner in the semifinals \u2014 who\u2019d drubbed him in their last five matches \u2014 Novak Djokovic could post the crowning achievement of his career by beating Carlos Alcaraz. <\/p>\n
He\u2019d triumph over long odds, the prodigious talent and incredible skill of his rivals, 14- and 16-year age deficits, Father Time etc. <\/p>\n
And yet it\u2019s Alcaraz who has more at stake here. By winning, he\u2019d complete the career Grand Slam at a men\u2019s record-young 22 years old. He\u2019d win a second straight major; both of them being on Sinner\u2019s favored hard court, he\u2019d separate himself from his rival a bit. <\/p>\n
He\u2019d be the favorite going into Roland Garros, furthering the possibility of the Carlos Slam. <\/p>\n
But more importantly than all of that, Alcaraz would get one over on Djokovic. Although he\u2019s won both their meetings in major finals, he trails 4-5 in the head-to-head. That\u2019s not a great look given that he wants to surpass Djokovic one day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What\u2019s at stake then, besides copious quantities of pride? Having already beaten Jannik Sinner in the semifinals \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-446867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}