After years of false starts, men’s tennis finally has a proper war between the generations.

In a startling comeback that rocked the All England Club’s venerable Centre Court, Carlos Alcaraz, the 20-year-old Spanish star who has blitzed the sport in his brief career, pulled off the almost impossible, beating Novak Djokovic in a Wimbledon final on the grass that the man – widely recognised as the greatest ever to play the sport – has long treated as his back lawn.