The passing of the torch in men’s tennis adds another chapter written today when Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz takes on Serbia’s Novak Djokovic for Olympic gold at Roland Garros.
Two of the top players in the world, the pair have met six times on the ATP tour coming into Sunday’s Olympic singles final, splitting the meetings with three wins each. They’ve met once on the red clay in Paris — a four-set Djokovic win in the French Open semifinals in 2023 — although Alcaraz did win a clay court match over Djokovic in Madrid in their first-ever meeting in 2022. Alcaraz also won their most recent meeting, when he beat him in straight sets in the Wimbledon final earlier this summer.
While he was unable to complete the calendar-year Golden Slam in 2021, Djokovic can join Andre Agassi and Rafael Nadal as the only men’s singles players to complete a career Golden Slam, winning all four majors and a gold medal, while Alcaraz would be just an Australian Open singles title away from a career Golden Slam, at just 21 years old.
How to watch Carlos Alcaraz vs. Novak Djokovic men’s singles gold medal match:
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Time: 6 a.m. ET/3 a.m. PT
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Place: Court Phillipe-Chatrier, Roland Garros | Paris, France
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TV Channel: NBC
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Stream: Fubo, Peacock, NBCOlympics.com
Live1 update
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The action is set to begin at Roland Garros
The final day of tennis at Roland Garros is here, but it might take a couple of hours to reach the match everyone’s waiting for: Carlos Alcaraz vs. Novak Djokovic.
The men’s singles gold medal match is the second match of the day at Court Philippe-Chatrier. The first match n: the women’s doubles bronze medal match between the Czech pair of Karolina Muchova and Linda Noskova and the Spanish pair of Cristina Bucsa and Sara Sorribes Tormo.