The Djoker has the last laugh

It would not have been surprising that only mainly just the Serbs and Russians cheered for the Djoker.

The bulk of the Western World was barracking for an Alcaraz victory against the Serb and then for his final opponent, Ruud.

Most of tennis' top players too, would have perhaps liked to see the Djoker deprived of his crown.

Whilst Federer and Nadal have been highly revered by players and fans alike as humble and harmony seeking people who helped to increase the world's love of tennis, Djokovic has been seen as a more egocentric and divisive player from the word go.

Is this true, or is it our bias showing against a Serb daring to take over the tennis crown from western Europeans?

For a while now Djokovic has had an iron-grip on the single men's tennis crown, against the chagrin of his competitors.

They have been groaning:

Why man he does bestride the narrow world like a Colossus, while we petty men walk under his huge legs to seek for ourselves dishonourable graves.

They desperately hoped that Carlos Alcaraz would topple the Colossus, so that they could all recite:

These growing feathers plucked from Djoko's wings will make him fly an ordinary pitch, who else would soar above the view of men and keep us all in servile fearfulness. (After Shakespeare)

Alas, no plucking has taken place.

Not yet.