This one was very easy to get over, three things were instumental in that for me.
The first was the fact that Djokovic had won three slams already in the season after the disappointments of last year, he was three slams behind in the race with Fedal and it looked an almost certainity that he would still be behind after this season with Nadal more than likely owning the slam record. Novak not only stopped Nadal personally himself, but he then went onto join Fedal at the top with 20 slams....so basically all these years of chasing, and he finally caught them. When you consider, heading into Wimbledon 2018, Federer had 20, Nadal had 17 and was basically a point away from making it 18, and Djokovic was on 12....couldn't really ask for more. It's now 20-20-20. In doing this Djokovic also picked up the surface slam, the double career slam, the channel slam, and lets not forget he also managed to get the other big record that he was chasing for so long....most weeks at world number one and is on course hopefully for that 7th year ending number one also. This all at the age of 34, can't feel so down.
Second reason, he didn't lose a very tight match, Djokovic was behind in the score from the very first game, these types of losses are a lot easier to get over, when you say the other player was just better on the day, than having Djokovic come close and then blow it on a key point in the match. I mean RG 2013 was more harder to get over than this, and he was only on 6 slams back then. It was swift, for me much easier to move on from. Having said that, Djokovic took out the most in form players at every slam, Medvedev in AO, Tsitsipas in RG, Berrettini in W and Zverev at USO....getting that win back over Zverev after the Olympics was important.
Third reason, Medvedev is just a such a cool guy that a second after knowing and getting over the fact that Djokovic isn't winning the CYGS, I couldn't help but feel happy for Medvedev who truly deserved his first slam. It's great to see the Next Gen finally become the Now Gen and start to take that step forwards. This year was a great story about Novak v Next Gen, and we will likely see more Next Gen slam wins now in 2022.
Sure Novak must be disappointed, but also watching how he got that incredible love from the crowd was so special, he finally got what he really wanted, the love of the fans. It was so overwhelming for him, he broke down and cried. Finally, USO was such a great slam to watch, so many fun matches, as a tennis fan I really cannot complain, and also should be so greedy, Novak did plenty good this year.