The French Open is the grand slam he desperately craves but the green grass of Wimbledon has been much kinder to Novak Djokovic.

Despite losing a classic tiebreak, Djokovic beat Roger Federer in Sunday’s final for the second straight year — this time it was 7-6 (7-1) 6-7 (10) 6-4 6-3 — to give the world No. 1 a third title at the All England Club and ninth grand slam overall. His trophy haul at tennis’ most famous postcode of SW19 matches one of his coaches, Boris Becker.

Last month the Serb experienced much different emotions when he faced another Swiss, Stan Wawrinka, on the red clay of Roland Garros. He fell to 0-3 in French Open finals and was once again stopped from completing a career grand slam.

Yet on Sunday, he improved to 3-1 in Wimbledon finals and as per his tradition after his victories, bent over and munched on some of the hallowed grass.

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