And slowly fade the legends--Djokovic, Ronaldo, Woods...

There is something unsettling about watching a sporting legend flail and fail, like Djokovic against Alcaraz in the Wimbledon final

New Delhi: It wasn’t so much the defeat as the manner of it. Carlos Alcaraz didn’t just beat Novak Djokovic in the final of Wimbledon. He crushed him. The Serbian was never in it – not in the first set when he was dumping easy volleys into the net, not in the second when Alcaraz was cracking winners on all flanks, and not even in the third when the 24-time Grand Slam champion saved three match points to force a tiebreaker.

Serbia's Novak Djokovic during the men's singles final against Spain's Carlos Alcaraz. (REUTERS)