Novak Djokovic’s eight-year reign atop men’s tennis could be about to end indefinitely.
After Roland-Garros concludes on Monday, Italy’s Jannik Sinner will rise to the top of the ATP rankings.
Djokovic withdrew from the French classic on Wednesday with a knee injury and in doing so gifted Casper Ruud a semi-final berth.
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He might have to consider hanging up his racquets sooner than he wants to.
I’m sure we’ve seen the last of Rafa also,then no more ‘Big 3’
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What a win overnight for Carlos Alcarez, five sets over reigning Aus Open champ Sinner. So it’ll be Zverev v Alcarez in Sunday night’s French Open final 
Should be a cracker! Can Sascha finally win a major?
Hopefully Nine promote well and could nab some good late night audience/shares, including Adelaide and especially Perth with their time zones. Also have an Olympics special early in the evening.
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I sincerely hope not.
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By my maths, if alcaraz wins, Djokovic will drop to 3rd. I’ll be cheering for him.
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Iga Swiatek beat Jasmine Paolini 6-2, 6-1 in the 2024 French Open.
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Congrats to Carlos Alcaraz on his 3rd Grand Slam win👍
It’s great to finally see a changing of the guard in men’s tennis ,when Roger, Rafa or Novak haven’t featured or won a Grand Slam Final
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Sounds like it was an epic match, 2 sets down comeback (after claiming the first 6-3) to win in 5 for Alcarez! I watched the first, then couldn’t stay up, after also watching the AFL game before it. Will endeavour to go and watch the match on demand, wonder if 9Now has it or if I’ll need Stan Sport? Maybe YouTube mini or highlights?
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There are short highlights of the men’s final on YouTube, under the channels of Stan Sport (with world feed English commentary) and Roland Garros (with no commentary).
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Here’s some food for thought.
Carlos Alcaraz will be 21 years and 8 months by the time next year’s Australian Open commences. If he wins that tournament, he’ll become the youngest man to ever complete the career Grand Slam, and there’s even the possibility he could also complete the career Golden Slam (which only Andre Agassi and Rafael Nadal have achieved) by then.
To put that into perspective, Roger Federer was 21 years and 11 months when he won his first Major at Wimbledon in 2003.
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Congrats to Alex de Minaur 
Taking out the ATP Wimbledon lead-up event in the Netherlands, the Libema Open.
Defeated young gun Seb Korda and Demon is now 7th in the world! Getting real Lleyton vibes.
Also follows his recent Roland Garros run in Paris, with a return to France soon for the Olympics and Flushing Meadows later in the year.
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His partner, British WTA player Katie Boulter, successfully defended her title in Nottingham on the same day.
She had to play consecutive three-set matches to do so, coming from a set down to defeat compatriot Emma Raducanu and Karolina Pliskova in the semi-final and final, respectively.
https://x.com/wta/status/1802649096206823509?s=46&t=pH8Nbt9ccJOMPCwK9J4Wtg
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Australians Jordan Thompson, Alex Vukic and Daria Saville have progressed to the 2nd round at Wimbledon overnight on day 1 
The two men won in 5 sets, the former in an epic comeback. While Saville was in straight sets.
Tonight two aussies face off against each other in de Minaur and Duckworth, while Popyrin, Walton and Hijikata also in R1 action. And for the women Ajla Tomljanovic faces the polarising Elana Ostapenko and Galecki is also playing.
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They had a heated clash at Wimbledon in 2021, while they also met at the Australian Open earlier this year. From those two clashes, it’s 1-apiece
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Aussies Alex de Minaur, Alexi Popyrin, Daria Saville and in a surprisingly fantastic result Adam Walton will play their R2 matches tomorrow our time.
Meanwhile, in their second round clash tonight Jordan Thompson had just started against Japan’s Nashioka. And poor Thanasi Kokkinakis’ suspended match from R1 against Canadian seed Felix Auger-Aliassime is still so! With rain continuing to disrupt action…
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Go Kokk! Wow 
Sent packing so far from the local contingent are Bolt, Hijikata, Duckworth, O’Connell, Gadecki and in a bitter defeat Tomljanovic who was a couple of years ago flying and looking a genuine Barty replacement but has since failed to return to form post horror injuries.
Some good numbers for Nine last night too, with proceedings only really just getting started (factoring all the rain delays thus far).
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Alex Demon Di Minaur is into the 3rd round 
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With Ruud, Rublev and Hurkacz out, Di Minaur could really soar in the rankings here.
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Well done Alexi Popyrin too. Feel for young Queenslander Adam Walton, could’ve also had an upset win, lost in thrilling fashion in a 5 setter. But poor Kokkinakis, was easily up a set too! And Dasha had her chance to close out the match more than once, again…
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