Novak Djokovic will go down in history as one of the best and most dominant tennis players to ever play the game. After defeating Dominic Thiem in the Australian Open final, the Serb would go on to lift his 17
th Grand Slam title and regain his place at the top of the world rankings.
In addition to becoming the first player in the Open era to win a major in three different decades, Djokovic has amassed a number of records on his way to 17 Grand Slam titles. Here are a few of his most notable achievements.
He’s won 8 Australian Open titles
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Djokovic had already set the all-time men’s record for the most Australian Open titles when he beat Rafael Nadal in straight sets in 2019, but as we’ve come to expect from the Serb, seven wasn’t enough and he added his eighth title to his trophy cabinet when he beat Dominic Thiem 6-4, 4-6, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4 at Melbourne Park in February.
What makes this win even more extraordinary is that Djokovic has never lost an Australian Open final. He’s not only 8-0 in Aus Open finals, but in semi-finals too. Basically, if Djokovic makes it past the quarter-finals, he is the heavy favourite to win the title.
17 Grand Slams
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Some of the best players in the world might only win one or two Grand Slam titles, some may never win one – think Jelena Jankovic, David Ferrer and Brian Gottfried.
Novak Djokovic has won 17. Eight Australian Open crowns, one French Open title, five Wimbledons and three US Opens. He is a few shy of Roger Federer (20) and Rafael Nadal (19), but many believe that Djokovic has what it takes to complete a Career Grand Slam in 2020 and could equal Federer.
He’s 5 for 7 in Grand Slams
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The Serb has won five of the last seven Grand Slams. Starting with Wimbledon and the US Open in 2018, followed by the Australian Open and Wimbledon in 2019, and now the 2020 edition of the Australian Open.
He has also gone on to win nine of his last 10 Grand Slam finals, his only loss coming against Stan Wawrinka in the 2016 US Open final.
He’s back at number 1 and chasing another record
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There was probably only one thing that could have made the win at the Australian Open even sweeter for the Serb, and that was the fact that with his win over Thiem he regained his place at the top of the ATP Rankings.
It will be his 276th week at the top and if he can hold the spot until 5 October, he will surpass Roger Federer as the player with the most weeks at number 1 (310). At the moment Djokovic is in third spot behind the legendary Pete Sampras (286) and looks set to pass the American.
20 Guinness World Records
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Some people dedicate their lives to holding just one Guinness World Record, and even then it might not be something that’s very exciting like
The most number of apples eaten in a minute or something ridiculous like that.
Djokovic holds 20 Guinness World Records, all of which are incredible and will be almost impossible to break. They include:
- Most Australian Open singles tennis titles won (male)
- Most Australian Open singles titles won (open era)
- First tennis player to win three successive Australian Open titles
- First player to achieve a “Career Golden Masters”
- Most ATP Masters 1000 singles titles won in a season
- Most ATP Masters 1000 singles finals in a season
- Most consecutive Masters 1000 matches won
- Most consecutive men's Grand Slam Singles tennis titles (open era)
- Most consecutive Grand Slam singles matches won (male, open era)
- Fewest matches completed to reach a Grand Slam semi-final
- First player to win a Wimbledon men’s singles final after saving match points (open era)
- First Grand Slam men’s singles final to feature a final-set tie-break
- Most ATP Tour singles matches between two players (open era)
- Most tennis Grand Slam meetings (singles)
- Most consecutive Grand Slam singles final losses by a man [Nadal to Djokovic]
- Longest Grand Slam tennis final
- Longest Wimbledon singles final
- Highest earnings in a tennis season
- Highest earnings in a tennis career (male)
- Highest earnings in a tennis season (male)
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Whether you love him or hate him, you have to admit that Novak Djokovic is one of the greatest tennis players in the world. The influence he has had and the records he holds will echo through out tennis for the rest of time.
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