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After connecting a parallel home-brand backhand, which was only 0-15, 4-0 up in the second set, lost the first in the tiebreaker,

Novak Djokovic

began to jump in the back of the court while watching his rival. "I float like a butterfly and beak like a wasp," he seemed to say to

Matteo Berrettini

with the defiant dance, emulating

Muhammad Ali

. The Serbian left that game, but he won the set, in the reaction that would become the most important triumph of his life: 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-4 and 6-3, in three hours and 21 minutes.

Angel and devil, challenger with the stands, deprived of the sympathies that

Nadal

and

Federer

arouse

, can already contemplate them head-on on the roof of the border where the greatest appear. Nine times winner of the Australian Open, six of Wimbledon, three of the United States Open and two of Roland Garros, the world number 1 won at the All England Club his twentieth Grand Slam title, a figure with which he equals both men with whom he has been in charge of the circuit for more than three decades. [Comment: Who will win the most titles?]

Coming from behind, always behind the Swiss and the Spanish, Djokovic is already in the place he has always sought.

It is the year of

Nole

, a pristine course where he has made the three

majors

contested, knocking down Nadal in his sacred temple of clay and confirming with his third consecutive title at Wimbledon that he is already a true specialist on grass.

Ahead, the Tokyo Olympics and the United States Open, the possibility of completing the Golden Slam in the same season and staying alone in the heights.

At 34 years old, in full physical condition, he is looking into an unfathomable future.

Quick reaction

Soon with an advantage in each set, he fluently recovered from the mishap suffered in the first set and showed that he knows how to perform like few others in long-distance matches, something he already did in the final of Roland Garros against

Stefanos Tsitsipas

, before whom he needed to lift two sets. In front of what could be supposed, the opportunities to open a gap in the score came quickly. Berrettini had it in the first game, after two double faults by his rival, but it was Djokovic who took advantage of the second he had to reach 3-1 and serve. The game woke up strange, with the Serbian nervous and his slow opponent, who knows if conditioned by the ailment in the left thigh, where he wore a bandage.

Berrettini was only supported by the serve. With the ball in play, it was Djokovic who wrote the script. Each time he managed to subtract, the error of his opponent came sooner rather than later, too tender in his first Grand Slam final. At the age of 25, those of Berrettini, the three men who are now fighting side by side to overcome the 20 Grand Slam titles, had already developed part of the juicy tale of their respective careers, but we already know that they belong to another species, to another world, to another social stratum.

Djokovic had set ball to the rest to close the set 6-2. He could not take advantage of it and gave air to the Italian, who broke in the ninth game and reestablished his balance. Berrettini woke up, reversing to hit the forehand and putting into practice the cut backhand. More successful in the selection of shots, the applicant would take the tiebreaker.

Attentive, aware of the traps that the surface hides, the Belgrade player marked distances in the next two sets and the final entered its most intense moments. The Berrettini weapon never declined, which had already created difficulties for him in the last quarters of Roland Garros. Demanded by the high temperature of the Italian's service, he exhibited his facet as an incomparable receiver until Berrettini's double fault arrived that meant the decisive break in the seventh game. He bravely lifted the first two match points, back to service, but the last setback stayed in the net. With the hug with

Goran Ivanisevic

, champion of the tournament in 2001, his coach with

Marian Vajda

, and with his entire team, the champion celebrated his historic victory.

The All England Club Central finally bowed at his feet.

It was not be for lowerly.

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