Alcaraz won five Grand Slam titles in three matches, and the Australian opened up the only missing trophy in his swollen cabinet.
The 22-year-old’s only U.S. Open victory came in 2022, when he won his first Wimbledon title the following year.
In 2024, he doubled down to be one of only six men in the Open era, winning the French Open and Wimbledon in the same season, followed by the footsteps of Rod Laver, Bjorn Borg, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer and Djokovic.
Nadal (2008 and 2010) and Borg (1978, 1979, 1980) were the only ones to win the Clay and Grass Grand Slam in the same season.
“Alcaraz had a great French Open, winning the French Open, and Wimbledon was nearly impossible… But in the later years we’ve seen it a lot because the speed of the court was much harder,” the cash added.
“It’s still a huge effort because the exhaustion of winning the Grand Slam is extreme and he came here and won this title.”
The Roland Garros final this month was particularly exhausted as Alcaraz fought back from two sets to beat world No. 1 Jannik Sinner, France’s longest Open final, at five hours and 29 minutes.
Alcaraz travels to the All England Club, hoping to join another elite club.
In the open era, there were only three players who had at least three consecutive Wimbledon champions.
Borg won five consecutive games between 1976 and 1980, and Pete Sampras won three championships in the Bounce (1993-1995), and then improved that achievement when he won four consecutive championships between 1997 and 2000.
Roger Federer is the latest feat to rule the Swiss in the five years between 2003 and 2007.
Alcaraz has been glowing on the grassland, and he is the fifth active male player who can collect four or more titles on the surface and joins Djokovic (eight), Matteo Berrettini (four), Taylor Fritz (four) and Nicolas Mahut (four).
He is just one of three Spanish men who won four pasture games after Nadal and Feliciano Lopez.
But Alcaraz claims to finish fourth at a young age – Nadal is 29 and Lopez is 37.
