Déjà vu struck at Flushing Meadows. 20 years after Roger Federer...
Nirmalya Dutta@NonsensicalNemo
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Sep 07, 2025
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Déjà vu struck at Flushing Meadows.
20 years after Roger Federer made Andre Agassi mortal, Carlos Alcaraz dismantled Novak Djokovic — chasing a 25th Slam — and looked like this generation’s Everest. 🧵
20 years after Roger Federer made Andre Agassi mortal, Carlos Alcaraz dismantled Novak Djokovic — chasing a 25th Slam — and looked like this generation’s Everest. 🧵
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Andre Agassi wrote of Federer in Open:
“In the tiebreak, he goes to a place that I don’t recognize. He finds a gear that other players simply don’t have… Walking to the net, I’m certain that I’ve lost to the better man, the Everest of the next generation.”
“In the tiebreak, he goes to a place that I don’t recognize. He finds a gear that other players simply don’t have… Walking to the net, I’m certain that I’ve lost to the better man, the Everest of the next generation.”
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On Friday, Djokovic felt the same.
Alcaraz broke early and took the opener 6–4. His first win over Djokovic on hard courts — a milestone that mattered.
Alcaraz broke early and took the opener 6–4. His first win over Djokovic on hard courts — a milestone that mattered.
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Twenty years later, déjà vu struck as Carlos Alcaraz clinically dismantled Novak Djokovic — chasing a 25th Grand Slam — who might in time be tempted to write a similar passage about meeting this generation’s Everest.
