Carlos Alcaraz won Wimbledon for the second year in a row in a repeat final against Novak Djokovic.
He won in straight sets and bar a blip in the third set, when Djokovic saved three match points, he was in control throughout the three sets.
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Which Horse Racing Meeting is Best?
We often get asked by our clients which is the best race meeting to attend each year. Firstly we would advise to check the best location for your clients, after all there is no point buying a box at the Goodwood Festival if all your clients are based in the north of England.
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The Wimbledon Ballot 2024
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Wimbledon is one of the most popular sporting events of the year and one of the four Grand Slam tournaments competed for every year along with the Australian, French, and US Open. Over 40,000 people attend Wimbledon each day. Running since 1877, it is the oldest tennis tournament in the world and the only Grand Slam played on grass.
Which Formula One race should you attend in 2023?
Formula One returns in March and in 2023 there will be twenty-three races starting in Bahrain on March 5th and concluding in Abu Dhabi on November 26th.
The eagerly anticipated Las Vegas Grand Prix debuts in November and will be a Saturday night race which will no doubt be extremely popular. Qatar also returns to the 2023 calendar. There should have been twenty-four races, but the Chinese Grand Prix has been cancelled with Formula One considering a replacement.
British Qualifier Emma Raducanu wins the US Open
Without a doubt one of Britain’s biggest sporting achievements saw 18-year-old Emma Raducanu win the US Open defeating Canada’s Leylah Fernandez in straight sets.
What made it even more remarkable was that she was a wildcard and had to go through three qualifying matches to reach the main draw. The 18-year-old from Kent, ranked 150 in the world before the tournament, also went the whole tournament without even dropping a set.
Djokovic and Barty Rule Wimbledon
Novak Djokovic and Ash Barty reigned supreme at Wimbledon this year in the Men’s and Ladies singles each picking up a cheque of £1,700,000.
Djokovic has had a sensational 2021 winning the Australian, French and now Wimbledon to put him level with Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal on 20 Grand Slams. These three players have dominated tennis over the last 15 years and especially in the case of Djokovic show no sign of easing up.
This was Djokovic’s sixth win on the grass of Wimbledon and this year’s tournament was probably one of his most straight forward. Despite losing the first set a couple of times in the Championship you always felt he would step up a gear in the remaining sets and this proved the point.
The Euros – England so close….
Although taking place a year later than it should have done the Euros produced some excellent matches throughout the tournament with Italy winning the tournament on July 11th beating England in the final at Wembley.
For the first time the tournament was played in multiple countries which proved a success although some teams did have to travel a lot more than others, Wales had a lot of travelling whilst England played all their games at Wembley bar their quarter final versus Ukraine.
The group stages contained no real surprises with France ending up top of the so called ‘Group of death’ which also contained Portugal, Germany, and Hungary. France, Portugal, and Germany all progressed to the last sixteen, but all went out at this stage, France were shocked by local neighbours Switzerland in what was probably the biggest shock of the tournament.
Nadal wins French Open again
Nadal secures his 13th French Open crown
Rafael Nadal continues to rule the clay in Paris convincingly winning his thirteenth French Open crown against world number one Novak Djokovic. This is the same Djokovic who has won all his 37 matches in 2020, bar match he was disqualified from at the US Open when he hit a line judge.
The final, between the two current best players, was a one-way affair with Nadal winning in straight sets which included the first set to love.
Nadal now just one behind Federer
Spain’s Rafael Nadal beat Daniel Medvedev in Sunday’s US Open final to move within one Grand Slam of Roger Federer’s record.
If a great final fought over five sets Nadal ended up winning the final set 6-4 which was his fourth US Open title and 19th Grand Slam title leaving him just one short of Roger Federer’s total.
Nadal secures 12th French Open crown
Rafael Nadal served up a tennis master class in Paris and won his 12th French Open crown which is a remarkable achievement.
The Spaniard had not been in form leading up to the tournament, losing in Monte Carlo, Madrid and Barcelona and had been suffering from injury too. However back at his most successful tournament he proved victorious against Dominic Thiem and he heralded it as ‘biggest satisfaction’ of his career which is some statement considering the amount of titles and Grand Slams he has won.