year of the calendar. Carlos Alcaraz, the third seed, aimed to make history by being the third person to win the US Open,Wimbledon, and French Open in the same year. Alcaraz would go down in history alongside Rod Laver and Rafael Nadal after defeating Alexander Zverev in June to win the French Open and then 24-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic in the Wimbledon final a month later. However, an unexpected shock in the second round sent him packing. Botic Van de Zandschulp, ranked 74th, defeated Alcaraz 6-1, 7-5, 6-4, halting the latter’s 15-match Grand Slam winning streak and awarding the 28-year-old Dutchman with his highest-ranked victory of the career. For the Spaniard, it was the first Grand Slam exit since a second-round departure.
