The win the world’s been waiting for!

So, the Djoker did now what he always does in Grand Slams, pack up his gear and rush to the bathroom in the break to re-group.

His usual pattern has been on the Grand Slams, that even if he lost two sets like now, every time the person who would re-emerge from the bathroom in fresh clothing after the game, was different from the one who went to the bathroom at the beginning of the break: He would come back, totally focussed on the game, typically stepping up into a class of his own, and from there on, win every set against his opponent ever more decisively.

And sure enough, he won the fourth set decisively with 6 : 3.

Now came the decider fifth set, that the whole world has been waiting for.

Will the Old Fox do his Houdini Act again and win the tournament?

No doubt, he was ready for this, but he must have had some nagging doubts in his mind.

This was not the same Alcaraz who handed him the victory on a plate in the last two sets of the French Open final a few weeks back, when the 'Young Turk' was so riddled with nervous cramps that he could barely move on the court.

No, the guy who was challenging him for his crown on the other side of the court was fit now and hell-bent to teach the Djoker a lesson: after all, he is not invincible.

It was a lesson for which the tennis world was holding their collective breath to teach the Djoker, who lately pumped up his ego so fully, that he was ready to fly off into the stratosphere like an unstoppable helium balloon.

Just a few days before the final, the Djoker bragged that it might sound arrogant but he still has to say that he is the best in the world.

'I love to be in the position where in the whole world, I am the one to beat. And it's aren't going to happen.'

Well, it did now. Fifth set – 6 : 4 Alcaraz wins.