Wimbledon 2023: Carlos Alcaraz wins the title

Carlos Alcaraz will head to New York in August to defend his US Open title as a two-time Grand Slam champion.

That’s because he managed to shake off a poor start and beat Novak Djokovic in the Wimbledon final 1-6, 7-6 (6), 6-1, 3-6, 6-4.

That gave Alcaraz his first trophy at the All England Club and prevented Djokovic from winning his fifth in a row and eighth overall there.

It also kept Djokovic from increasing his men’s-record total of 23 major titles.

Alcaraz is a 20-year-old from Spain who is the third-youngest men’s champion at Wimbledon in the Open era, which began in 1968.

Only Boris Becker and Bjorn Borg were younger than he is.

The next Grand Slam tournament is the US Open, which begins on the hard courts of the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on Aug. 28.

The women’s final — Iga Swiatek won the tournament in 2022 — is Sept. 9; the men’s final is Sept. 10.