Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz will compete for the gold medal at the Paris Olympics on Sunday. Seeding number 1 and number 2 met the predictions of the day before and reached the final without losing a set.
The Serbian champion defeated in order the Australian Matt Ebden, his eternal rival and 22-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal, the German Dominik Koepfer, the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas and the Italian Lorenzo Musetti, Reaching the final at the Olympics for the first time in his legendary career.
The 21-year-old Spaniard – instead – beat the Lebanese Hady Habib, the Dutch Tallon Griekspoor, the Russian Roman Safiullin, the American Tommy Paul and the Canadian Felix AugerAliassime, setting new records for precocity and confirming that he is the best in the world at this moment.
Nole Djokovic will try to win the gold medal for his country and realize his greatest dream, even if he won’t be a favorite against this version of Alcaraz. The 21-year-old from Murcia is literally on fire and has already defeated the Serbian in the final of the Wimbledon Championships a few weeks ago.
The four-time Grand Slam champion will have to be good at managing pressure and not being hijacked by the greater experience of Nole Djokovic, Who will try to put him in trouble to accomplish yet another feat of his career.
Nole wants to take revenge
It will be a final between Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz. After the final at Wimbledon a few weeks ago, it will still be the Serbian and Spanish players who will play a very important final. And in this case a final with a gold medal at the Olympics. Novak Djokovic is 37 years old and he is pursuing the only great success that is missing in his amazing palmares. On the other side of the field Carlos Alcaraz after winning Roland Garros and Wimbledon in series wants to add also the Olympic tournament at 21 years.
Carlitos never hid his desire to win the gold medal: “Honestly it’s gonna a be a really special moment for me in my life and career. I’ll try to enjoy this moment. It’s gonna be difficult for sure, but it’s gonna be special. I’ll try to focus on myself. I’ll try not to hear all the fans and people saying I’m gonna win. I just wanna give my 100% and my best tennis. Hopefully I’ll reach my goal to get the gold.”
Djokovic knows he is not favorite against Alcaraz: “He won Roland Garros, he won Wimbledon, beat me in the finals quite comfortable there, reached the finals [here] without dropping a set. I mean I did too but I think the way he is playing, he’s definitely a favourite. But it’s Olympics, it’s really anybody’s game I think. We haven’t faced each other on clay in a while, I think the only time we played here was last year’s semi-final of Roland Garros. I feel like I’m a different player than I was in Wimbledon, the way I move, the way I’m striking the ball.”
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The Spaniard is the big favourite
But how do the bookmakers see this match? Here are the odds of several betting agencies on the final Djokovic-Alcaraz that will be played on the afternoon of Sunday, August 4th. And the betting agencies are basically agreed on seeing Carlos Alcaraz as the favorite.
Eurobet sees Carlos Alcaraz as the clear favourite for the gold medal. The Spaniard is listed for success at 1.40. Novak Djokovic winning is listed at 2.65. For the less experienced with odds means that playing 10 euros on Alcaraz wins 14. Playing the same 10 euros on Djokovic would win 26.50. As for the set betting, Alcaraz’s win in two sets is paid 2.09 times the bet, while the three-set win is paid 3.55 times the bet. Djokovic’s win in two sets is paid at 4.70 while the Serbian’s win in three sets is paid 5.80. For bwin the odds are as follows: 1.40 for the victory of Carlos Alcaraz; 2.75 for the success of Novak Djokovic.
For Better-Lottomatica the success of Carlos Alcaraz is paid at 1.43; 2.80 is the quota in the table for the success of 24 times Slam champion. As far as Snai is concerned the odds are basically similar: 1.42 for Carlos Alcaraz instead is 2.80 for Novak Djokovic. For Goldbet, the Spanish favorite: 1.43 the share of Carlos Alcaraz and 2.80 the share of success of Novak Djokovic.
The hope of fans and experts is that the final of the Paris Olympics will be more balanced than the final of the Wimbledon Championships.