Tennis Majors in 2024: Can Alcaraz continue to test Djokovic for the World Number One spot?
This year produced some monumental moments in tennis with young stars emerging and Novak increasing his argument for the greatest of all time debate.
Looking ahead, can Djokovic continue his reign and who could we be seeing leave the new year, a major winner in the sport?
Looking ahead, can Djokovic continue his reign and who could we be seeing leave the new year, a major winner in the sport?
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00:00 As the dust settles on an extremely entertaining year in tennis, we've seen major winners'
00:07 records broken by none other than Novak Djokovic, icons of the game such as Rafael Nadal looking
00:13 likely to be moving on, and young stars breaking boundaries to reach the top of the world rankings.
00:19 Let's start by taking a look at the Spanish tennis hero Nadal and a certain star who could
00:25 go on to follow his hero's footsteps. I mean, Nadal, I mean, yes, he is without a doubt one of the best
00:33 competitors across tennis and sport in general as well. It kind of almost feels like Nadal hasn't
00:40 left because literally Alcaraz does seem to be like his replacement and it's kind of incredible
00:46 to see there are so many similarities between them. It remains to be seen if he can come back.
00:52 I mean, I would never ever count him out to be honest because he's shown multiple times that
00:58 he can come back from an injury and go right to the top again and a lot of players haven't
01:04 been able to do that. There's been a resurgence of form throughout the year by Russian Daniel Medvedev
01:11 who joins Carlos Alcaraz as the only two players to have won more than one Masters 1000 titles
01:17 this year. So what could the Russian go on to achieve when the fresh calendar of tennis action
01:23 rolls around? Medvedev is unbelievable what a competitor he is. I mean, he does not give up,
01:30 does he? He can just keep on rallying from the baseline over and over and Medvedev is showing
01:36 that he's back in there. I think he did have a bit of a kind of lacklustre 12 months. I don't
01:44 know whether obviously being banned from Wimbledon and that whole thing about him being Russian
01:49 had an impact on him. I don't think it can be easy to deal with that, to be made to feel like
01:54 you're responsible for something that isn't within your control. But it's great to see that he's back
01:59 at the top of his game. As the tennis world are preparing for the action in 2024, who could go on
02:06 to become a major winner in the new year? I mean, in terms of surprise, I mean, I know Alcaraz isn't
02:12 a surprise, but I didn't think he was going to be so quick to master all three surfaces. So that
02:19 just shows that he's got a great future ahead. The fact that he's already won Wimbledon at 20,
02:24 you know, he's got a hard court slam and we know that he's going to be great on clay anyway. So
02:29 that just shows I was a bit dubious last year because I thought, okay, he won the US Open in
02:34 Djokovic's absence. He got the number one ranking with very few points because Djokovic wasn't
02:39 around to kind of challenge him. And I think for me, he's really proved that he is going to be the
02:46 next person to watch. A roundup by a tennis expert looking ahead to the action next year,
02:53 with a new battle at the top emerging between Djokovic and Alcaraz.
02:58 It guarantees more viewers tuning in and more drama than ever before.