Goodbye clay, hello grass. The dust has barely settled on the French Open – where Novak Djokovic won a record 23rd Grand Slam title – and already play is under way on grass in the lead up to Wimbledon. Ad The low-bouncing and quicker-playing grass brings with it plenty of new challenges – and plenty of new faces looking to make their mark on a surface that some enjoy more than others.
WimbledonMurray hoping Djokovic 'takes eye off ball' before WimbledonA DAY AGO With that in mind, what are the burning questions we want answered over the next month? Will Djokovic continue towards Calendar Slam? For the second time in the last three years the Calendar Slam is on for Novak Djokovic. The Australian Open and French Open are in the bag, and Wimbledon is next on the agenda. As he has done for every season since 2019, Djokovic won’t play a grass event before heading to Wimbledon.
Instead he will head to the Grand Slam filled with the confidence that beating him over five sets remains one of the toughest challenges in sport. And on grass probably even more so than on clay. Djokovic targets Calendar Slam after French Open Murray hopes Djokovic 'takes eyes off ball' before Wimbledon Can he be stopped there? If there’s hope for the field it’s that Djokovic dropped six sets at Wimbledon last year, including the first two against Jannik Sinner in the quarter-final.
But he still won. And it will likely take a big display of serving or hitting to prevent him tying Roger Federer with an eighth Wimbledon title. Can Alcaraz adapt like Nadal? Carlos Alcaraz has accomplished so much over the last 18 months that it doesn’t feel implausible that he will be a force on grass this season.
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