Novak Djokovic can finally call himself an Olympic champion after outlasting Carlos Alcaraz in a match for the ages to claim gold in Paris. #NBCSports #Olympics #Paris2024
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Novak Djokovic wins an INSTANT CLASSIC over Carlos Alcaraz for first Olympic gold | Paris Olympics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M6cRuJqIBs
KING DJOKOVIC PROUD OF YOU!! I CAN ONLY IMAGINE HIS NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY!!!!
I am not a Nole fan but I think he should be considered as the greatest athlete of all time. what he had to overcome and achieve in his career is remarkable and most importantly his mental game is above anyone else
@@chacharu3316I completely agree. I’m a med fan and Djokovic is the best of all time.
@@chacharu3316 Yeah, I agree with greatest athlete statement 100 percent. He achieved everything that he did WHILE BEING IN THE SAME ERA AS THE SECOND AND THIRD BEST PLAYERS OF ALL TIME!!! Just think about that for a second, and let it sink in.
Messi is the greatest athlete of all time
@@benjamincrew8383 In my opinion, Micheal Phelps, djokovic, and Messi are all top 5
At this point he’s the undisputed goat
In some minds,but certainly not most.
He gets no ATP points and is still winless on the ATP tour for the year. The Olympics is an ITF event. It’s on the same level as the challenger circuit.
He was years before this tbh
I would say he is right next to Roger Federer
And what is your point?@@jm7804
Nole found another level in that last tiebreak. Legend
Dude that forehand at 2-2 was simple incredible…. On the run cross court with the most pace he’s hit with all match. GOAT
Just like he said in his interview, he is now COMPLETE. Olympic gold was the missing piece of the puzzle.
So happy for him❤
yep
he is now “complete”, but you better bet that a victory like this will motivate him to stick around and continue to be a killer
Alcaraz who brought the best out of Djokovic, he looked very good in these highlights.
The Best!!!
What a career Djokovic has! Nothing left to prove. Congrats, Novak! Well deserved gold!
He just needs to join the Five-Timers Club at the U.S. Open (which also includes Connors, Sampras and Federer).
The one thing left to do is win the 2024 U.S. Open which would not only be his 25th Career Grand Slam but, also, his 100th Career ATP Title, finish the year #1 and then retire as the Greatest Tennis Player of All Time, male or female. Sorry, Serena.
@@omegamale7880 Why they don’t join him on winning 10 grand slams at Australian open!!?
@@royceskepagny6182he’s already better lmfao tf, Serena can’t touch Djokovic
@@BardhanProductionsSerena has grand slam doubles titles.
Djokovic did it the prize he needed to round off a fantastic career 🥇🇷🇸
Yes. And, you can tell, he still has more in his tank. 🎾🎾🥇
He’s got a few grandslams left in him. 100%
Good for him to collect one more
If seems the motivation to win the gold he was lacking made him play like there was no tomorrow
@@richcampbell6808 If he can stay healthy…I know his fitness is insane, but he is going to have to balance playing the right tourneys to keep a decent seed up, while playing enough to keep his “body hardened” for 5-setters, yet also not overdoing it and wearing his body down and giving any injuries time to heal. Pretty incredible to balance all of that when you have also created the roadmap for all the 20-somethings to follow in trying to knock you off. Until the big four, tennis was quite the young man’s game…and I can kinda see why when playing through injuries can be so encouraged on one hand, yet tweaking some tendon in your wrist when you are 25 and it never healing properly can easily end your career at 30. He’s both a tennis and medical marvel lol.
Told everyone before the year what event his priority was at 37yo, then went out there and did it without dropping a set and winning against the current best player of the next generation. The true GOAT of tennis.
Sinner has something to say about that‼🤔
Yup
AND he did it injured. Unquestioned GOAT.
It’s next next generation!
Maybe it’s the hat and the slightly stiffer movement, but it’s wild how much late stage Novak plays like straight-up prime Jim Courier.
I doubted him. I feel stupid now. GOAT!!!!
He’s my favorite player and I doubted he could win this. I’m so glad he won.
@@networth00Imagine if he played like this in Wimbledon a month ago😮😮😮😮
You fools, let this be a lesson to never count out a legendary player like Novak
Djokovic beat Alcaraz for the gold?? I can’t believe it!! Alcaraz just beat him in straight sets in the Wimbledon final. OMG….this completes the resume and solidifies Novak as the GOAT !!!!
While waiting in tunnel to enter Wimbledon, he looked so down. Today, just oposite. When he is himself nobody can beat him.
Not saying Novak would have won in Wimbledon, but he kinda did just have surgery on a torn meniscus. The fact that he made the Wimbledon final was a testament to how mentally tough he is to beat. A player like Alcaraz on his A game would never lose to a slightly compromised opponent even if it’s Novak. Today Novak didn’t look hampered at all.
Bro barely won and it’s two sets meh
@@256jesse Novak defeated every opponent in two sets! lol
no money involved
Djokovic, the man with every Grand Slam, Majors title possible, finally won the elusive Olympic gold medal after five attempts. He’s no longer the GOAT, he’s the Ultimate Legend of Tennis.
“He’s no longer the GOAT, he’s the ultimate legend of tennis”
Uh… the ultimate legend of tennis would= GOAT. But ok?
@@MosesMal0n3😂😂😂😂
@@MosesMal0n3 He’s got the spirit lmao
The man, the legend, the NOVAK ☦️ 🇷🇸!
Literally everyone outside of slavic countries will never recognize Novak as the 🐐
Wow he really wanted this. Never seen him so emotional after a victory.
Yep.
he’s been chasing it for 20 years.
You should definitely watch his reaction to winning the Australian Open in 2023 then
@@Schokilooover Did he break through security to go cry with his family and friends in the stands?
@@mensrea1251 Oh wow, I hadn’t even noticed the security trying to hold him back, I thought they were following him to make sure he’s fine 😂 Yeah, that changes things
Playing in 5 olympics is crazy…
But winning Gold in your 5th is insane
Man has 3 different Prime Eras it’s insan
will he be there at the next one?
Just like Messi won the World Cup in his 5th attempt
@yodaichi888 he said so as a slight joke. It’s possible but it’ll be nearly impossible to play top 20 level at that point.
And 8 weeks after having had knee surgery…
even at 37, he’s still improving his game, I’ve never seen him hit big forehands like that consistently, but he knew he needed something like that to beat Alcaraz
Looks like djokovic finally understood he has to take it to carlos and play first strike tennis. I don’t know why it took so long for him to adopt this strategy against alcaraz, because he is a tennis genius, but I guess it’s because even with his usual playstyle, their H2H was even at 3-3. I think this last wimbledon really showed him that if he lets carlos dictate with his forehand at this point in their careers, he’s going to get blown off the court, especially with alcaraz’s forehand dropshot being as good as it is. Amazing performance and a lot of bravery to pull this off in this fashion!
He was hitting some monster returns too! Especially match point!
He hit his forehand huge all last year. That’s why he was beating Sinner, Alcaraz and Medvedev and winning Slams.
@@raymondfan2402he did the same in RG 23. Not so much at the wtf last year but the fast courts compliment his shots well so he didn’t need to.
@@raymondfan2402 Part of it is because he never really had the power offense on scramble forehands. It’s something that I think he has been spending a lot of time working on this year specifically to handle the Sinner/Alcaraz game styles. Tanking heavy forehand winners on the run is a form of offense that has really only become prevalent in the last 2 to 3 years because the current crop of younger guys are the first ones to be training that specific shot throughout their 14+ year old years. Novak never had it before because nobody had it before.
6:50 What a powerful image! This man is so loved not only by his support group and family, but the world. The media try to convince us that he is unpopular compared to his counterparts but they end up having to eat crow every time. The legend that is Novak Djokovic, he is one of one.
I’m stunned by Djokovic’s performance. He took his game to another level just for this. And it was amazing!
“Theres no big 3, its just big me”
I totally agree!
Is you Like That?
This guy man. 37 knee surgery on his “worst” surface beats one of most talented players ever in his prime on a hot streak. What a goat we have
Or you could say…the winningest tennis player of all time won a tournament . It’s not some crazy underdog story. It’s not exactly Rocky beating Apollo, Douglas beating Tyson or Boris Becker winning Wimbledon at 17.
No only 37 vs 21. It’s not rocket science. @@AcrylicGoblin
@@AcrylicGoblin Or you could not nitpick using exaggerated analogies, how about that? No, it’s not one of the greatest underdog stories in history and no one is saying that, but you’re kidding yourself if you do not think that Djokovic was a big underdog (which was the general consensus), and OP did state some facts which speak to the difficulty of Djokovic’s achievement. If you don’t want to recognize any of that besides simply that he “won a tournament”, then you can live on that island by yourself (my bad; with all the haters, I mean).
Here, I’ll rephrase it for you: what Djokovic accomplished is especially impressive given that it came 2 months after a partially-torn meniscus on the same court, being oldest ever to win an Olympic gold medal, and playing on his worst surface results-wise against a player who in the last few months won a Masters 1000 and the past 2 slams, including one at the same venue and the other where he won easily vs Djokovic.
@@AcrylicGoblin So what????
“Worst” well said. Clay is not his weak surface at all. He faced Nadal who was almost invincible on clay for the most part and as result Djokovic ended up winning “only” 3 Garos titles. But I would take Djokovic on clay against anybody not named Nadal.
this match needs 1 hour extended highlights. it was utterly glorious
The world of tennis is as emotional for this win, as Novak is. With everything against him in this match, the best young player, his own body, the recent history, still play a classic match and win is what legends are made of…I don’t care about the GOAT discussion, I’m just very happy for Nole and the tennis world. Throughout his entire career, Novak has taught us all how to win against all odds.
So cool that a player who has accomplished so much professionally as Djokovic has still feels that winning an award for his country is his biggest achievement. Respect.
Yes, I thought the same thing. It really shows you how much his country means to him.
Because for Novak, all those other titles were for himself. He may have viewed his achievements as selfish, or was embarrassed that his tour results didn’t carry over to gold. I can see how he would doubt himself in those big moments and his ability to fight for his country. Novak gets to enjoy the best retirement ever. Nadal has a good retirement, but Federer will for the rest of his life have regrets of 40-15. Novak not only managed to conquer his own generation, but he stuck around and permanently altered Alcaraz’s entire career. Now Carlos has to live with the fact that he lost to Djokovic in their most important encounter and Carlos will never have a chance to redeem himself. Next Olympics, Djokovic will be retired. Novak destroys legacies.