Novak Djokovic is already preparing his assault on clay after an atypical start to the season for him. At this point, it was usual for him to already have some title in his pocket, especially the Australian Open, where he has reigned ten times, but this time he met the best Jannik Sinner in the semifinals. Before, in the United Cup, he was surpassed by the Australian De Minaur and in Indian Wells he was surprised in the third round by the Italian Luca Nardi, at that time 123rd in the world (now he is 75th). He resigned from Miami and immediately afterwards announced that Goran Ivanisevic was no longer his coach.
With these records one might think that the Serbian tennis player was going to stop being number one in the world, but that was not the case. Sinner has joined Alcaraz in the fight to remove him from the throne, but Novak resists and that has helped him surpass a record held by Roger Federer: at 36 years and 321 days, he became the oldest tennis player to lead the ranking of the ATP, surpassing the Swiss.
All records
Djokovic has never hidden the intention of breaking as many records as he can, and he already has almost all of the most important ones: Grand Slam titles (24), Masters 1,000 (40), Masters Cups (seven ) and the number of weeks as number one in the world (419, and he has a few more secured). The first time it reached first place was in 2011. That time it was one year consecutively, it recovered in 2012 and it was another year, which it extended to more than two between 2014 and 2016, its longest consecutive period, 122 weeks . He reached the summit again in 2018 for another 12 months and in February 2020 he returned until Medvedev removed him from there in February 2022. First with the Russian and then with Carlos Alcaraz, he has alternated and has recovered the position up to five times . He also has the record of being the tennis player who has closed the course as number one the most times: eight.
Incredible numbers since he turned 30
Despite this year’s break, his physique remains a perfect machine and in 2023 he played the final of the four Grand Slams, and won three: Australian Open, Roland Garros and US Open. He only lost to Alcaraz at Wimbledon. Since he turned 30 on May 22, 2017, an age that a while ago was almost like the beginning of starting to think about retirement, the Serbian has won 31 titles (of the 98 he has; here he is third, by behind Federer’s 103 and Jimmy Connors’ 109), including 12 of his 24 Grand Slams.
2024-04-02 12:43:05
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