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Novak Djokovic has won Wimbledon for the sixth time, beating Matteo Berrettini 6-7 (4-7), 6-4, 6-4, 6-3 on Centre Court today (Sunday, July 11). It's his 20th Grand Slam title, drawing him level with Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal on the all-time men's list.
The 34-year-old has now won the Australian Open, the French Open and Wimbledon in the same season. BBC Sport reports that he is only the fifth man in history to win the first three majors of a year, and only the second in the Open era after Rod Laver in 1969. In Paris last month he came from two sets down to beat Stefanos Tsitsipas in the final.
Berrettini, in his first major final, took the opening set on a tie-break, but Djokovic took the next three sets. The full draw shows he dropped only two sets all tournament. He talked afterwards about how far he has come:
Winning Wimbledon was always the biggest dream for me when I was a kid. A seven-year-old boy in Serbia constructing a Wimbledon trophy with improvised materials and standing here with a sixth real trophy is incredible. It is amazing.
Next come the Olympics and the US Open, and talk of a Golden Slam.
Djokovic eats a mainly plant-based diet. He has said he has fish occasionally, so he doesn't use the word vegan, but he has spoken often about the ethics of cutting out animal products and is an executive producer of The Game Changers. "Hopefully, that community grows even more; hopefully, I can inspire other athletes that it is possible to be plant-based," he told reporters in Melbourne last year.
This has been his year. In March he broke Federer's record for weeks at world No. 1, and at this Wimbledon fellow plant-based player Hubert Hurkacz knocked Federer out in the quarter-finals. Two years ago Djokovic saved two championship points to beat Federer in the longest Wimbledon final.
Twenty majors, powered by plants.