Novak Djokovic’s French Open victory elevates an already great champion into even rarer air, writes JasonGay
One day, one of these men’s tennis phenoms is really going to do it, vanquish one of the active, all-time greats, in the final of a major tournament, kicking off a fresh new era of the sport—wide open, unpredictable, no longer beholden to a hardy trio of legends.
It was a master class in endurance and experience, Djokovic at his tenacious best. The elastic-limbed Serbian, who reached this clay court final by summiting what he calls the hardest mountain in tennis——remains perhaps the toughest out in all of sports. He’s a champion who cannot be declared kaput until the stadium staff are flipping off the lights, brushing the courts and rolling up the nets—and probably not even then, either.
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