The stage was set for Novak Djokovic to achieve history as the first man since 1969 to win a tennis calendar 'Grand Slam.' Standing in the way was Daniil Medvedev, who went and did precisely what Djokovic would do, writes JasonGay:
Novak Djokovic got Novak Djokovic’d. Is there any other way to put it? Here he was, the most brilliant spoiler of tennis spoilers, the World No.
1 who’d made a career out of crushing pretty story lines and repeatedly breaking the hearts of beloved crowd favorites—except this time, it was Djokovic who was the beloved crowd favorite, a pretty story line on the doorstep of tennis history…and it was his heart being broken.—running the table of the Australian Open, the French, Wimbledon, and this, the last, noisiest major. It was a feat not accomplished since Rod Laver did it for a second time in September of 1969.
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