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Djokovic wins his first Olympic Gold in men’s tennis final
“I put my heart, my soul, my body, my family — my everything — on the line to win Olympic gold,” Djokovic said. “Incredible battle. Incredible fight.”
Novak Djokovic finally added an Olympics Gold medal to his tally of other titles after beating Carlos Alcaraz at the Paris Games on Sunday.
Rated as the oldest player to ever play in the men’s singles final at the Olympics, 37-year-old Djokovic beat Alcaraz 7-6 (3), 7-6 (2). Alcaraz, 21, meanwhile was the youngest tennis player ever to reach the men’s singles final.
“I put my heart, my soul, my body, my family — my everything — on the line to win Olympic gold,” Djokovic said. “Incredible battle. Incredible fight.”
His impressive career already featured a men’s-record 24 Grand Slam trophies and the most weeks spent at the top of the rankings by any man or woman, Associated Press reported.
His career also already contained a Summer Olympics medal, from 2008, but it was a bronze — and he made it clear that simply wasn’t sufficient.
He lost to the eventual gold winner each time: Rafael Nadal at Beijing in 2008, Andy Murray at London in 2012, and Alexander Zverev in Tokyo three years ago.
