Andrew Alderson: ZB sports reporter on Novak Djokovic winning gold at the Paris Olympics

Novak Djokovic has won an elusive Olympic tennis singles gold medal.

A 7-6, 7-6 win over Carlos Alcaraz in nearly three hours has seen him become the fifth player after Steffi Graf, Andre Agassi, Rafael Nadal and Serena Williams to win the four majors and a Games individual title.

ZB sports reporter Andrew Alderson explains further.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Bought with Andrew Alison. Djokovic has had a good win
at the Olympics. Let's have a listen to that win now.
And a beautiful cross court fourhand winner from Djokovic. It
was low, it was powerful, it was fast. He asks
the crowd to give him the biggest surround of the
round of the clause as possible for that win and

(00:22):
the first medal for Serbia at the Olympics this Olympics too, Andrew,
good morning, read.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Right, yep, that's a terrific win. And I guess you
put in the context of history. There's now only five
players who have achieved what they call the Golden Slam,
which is to won all form majors and an Olympic
title in the singles. So Djokovic joins Steffi Graf, Andre Agassi,
Raphael o'dale and Serena Williams. So it's pretty aleites company.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
And it was a special moment too, wasn't. I mean
he was on his hands and knees, he was looking
up to I don't know god, he was crying. Great scenes. Yeah,
that's right.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
And another crack duel with Carlos Alcareth. So the you know,
the I guess the champion and the and the new
guard coming through in Alcarath and he went seven six,
seven six. Neither neither of them broke serve over the
course of the match. So yeah, just a couple of
tie breaks to sort out the difference.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
How's Ryan Fox done?

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Ryan Fox thirty fifth in the end in the golf.
So just so Simon, I thank you. You know, there
was some outstanding golf out there today. I mean, if
you look at the world number one Scotti Scheffle, he's
number one for a reason and he's now the Olympic
gold medalist with a nine underpass sixty two, just blitzing
the field on the final day, so winning by a stroke,

(01:40):
taking it away from Tommy Fleetwood Hedecki matcha Yama in
the bronze midle position. But I think to the key
that John Raham led by four strokes with nine holes
to play, but four bogus in a double in the
last nine, so slipped away for the Spaniard.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
Hey, women's road race, you got an update for.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
US yep, just seen that commentated that through this morning,
so cyclists, the American Kristen Faulkner has won the race
just one hundred and fifty eight kilometers that went down
to the southwest of Paris and showcase all the best
of the French countryside, and then back into the city
for a few loops around the Monmartre region, and then
they took it down to the Seine and Faulkner broke

(02:19):
away in those final few k's and took it out.
So yeah, it was dramatic scenings. I mean, the French
they love their cycling Tour France et cetera. It's the
greatest race in the world and all that. But yeah,
four or five deep on a Sunday and in the
streets and beyond the barricades, it just was a terrific
atmosphere by locks of things. See they showcase it well.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
They do in the city. Looks beautiful, doesn't it.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
It does. Nothing has been everything's frayed, is it? Nothing
has happened by accident there.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
I love that.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
I just love the fact that it's that it looks
just so natural. You just know that has been.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
There's some of the most beauty and buildings and everything
has been blocked off, you know, so there's no people
making it look ugly.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
When you look at the bridges, someone's had the water
blast rout eyes on the gold and the paint's been
all done and everything.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
It's just good on them.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
I think that's that's the way you need to host
a gate totally.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
And hey good on Emma Twig getting silver at the weekend.
It was it was a little you know, you wanted
her to get the gold, but as she called, time
on the career too.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Yeah, well she started all in a twig. Yeah and
yeah she's and she's I guess, come back from Hughes
to Supportman as well, a couple of fourths there and
you know she retired once before, came back one gold
and now she's into silver as well. So it's a
it's a tremendous career.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
Brilliant Andrew Good. She's ring with zib Sport this morning.
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