Novak Djokovic has established himself as the world No. 1 in tennis with 79 ATP titles to his name. It was he who broke the monopoly of Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal in the Grand Slam final by winning the 2008 Grand Slam title by beating Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. As the tennis star is a year older, here are some interesting facts about her:
1. Born on May 22, 1987 in Yugoslavia, Serbia, Djokovic started playing tennis at the age of four.
2. The tennis player was brought up in a family of professional skiers. His parents Srdjan and Dijana run a restaurant in Serbia.
3. Currently the number 1 tennis player in the world, Djokovic is 17 times Grand Slam champion. He has 8 Australian Open, 1 French Open, 5 Wimbledons and 3 US Open.
4. At the age of 18, he won his first ATP event and entered the top 100 of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP).
5. He is the first Serbian to be ranked no. 1 and the first male player from Serbia to win the Grand Slam title.
6. He is the third most decorated male tennis player in history after Federer (20) and Nadal (19). On top of that, he won five ATP Finals titles, 34 ATP Tour Masters 1000 titles and 14 ATP tour 500 titles.
7.He is the only player to have won all nine Masters 1000 tournaments.
8.He is the only man of the open era to have won Grand Slam titles for three different decades. He is the second behind Ken Rosewall in the history of tennis to reach this stage between 1953-1972.
9. No other man has ever won more Australian Open than Djokovic.
10. The Serbian tennis player even wrote a book called Serve to win which provides a glimpse into his eccentric world.
11. He is also the founder of the Novak Djokovic Foundation, an organization which provides education to underprivileged children and also covers the travel costs of young Serbian athletes participating in international competitions.
12. He married his longtime girlfriend Jelena in 2014. The couple have two children, a son Stefan and a baby girl Tara.
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