Episode 1895
Novak Djokovic
Mon, 2022-Jul-11 01:27 UTC
Length - 5:05
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Novak Djokovic (Serbian Cyrillic: Новак Ђоковић, romanized: Novak Đoković, pronounced [nôʋaːk dʑôːkoʋitɕ] (listen); born 22 May 1987) is a Serbian professional tennis player. He is currently ranked world No. 3 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). He has been ranked world No. 1 for a record total 373 weeks, and has finished as the year-end No. 1 a record seven times. He has won 21 Grand Slam men's singles titles, including a record nine Australian Open titles. Overall, he has won 88 ATP singles titles, out of which 64 are a record Big Titles, including a record 38 Masters events. Djokovic is the first and only man in tennis history to be the reigning champion of the four majors at once on three different surfaces. He is the only man to complete a non-calendar year Grand Slam in the Open Era and the first one to achieve a double Career Grand Slam. He is also the only player to complete the Career Golden Masters on the ATP Tour, which he has done twice. Djokovic began his professional career in 2003. At age 20, he disrupted Roger Federer's and Rafael Nadal's streak of 11 consecutive majors to win his first major title at the 2008 Australian Open. By 2010, Djokovic also separated himself from the rest of field to join Federer and Nadal in the Big Three, the group of three players who have dominated men's tennis for more than a decade. In 2011, Djokovic ascended to No. 1 for the first time, winning three out of the four majors and a then-season record of five Masters events. He remained the best player in men's tennis for the rest of the decade, leading the tour in winning the Grand Slam, Masters and Year-end Championship titles. In 2015, Djokovic reached fifteen consecutive finals winning three majors and a season-record of six Masters events as well as the ATP Finals. The following year, he won the 2016 French Open to become the only man in the Open Era to complete a non-calendar year Grand Slam and his first Career Grand Slam. He became the first man since Rod Laver in 1969 to hold all four major titles at once and the only one in history to do so on three different surfaces. During the decade, Djokovic finished as No. 1 for six years and No. 2 for three other years and by 2021 he set the records for both most weeks spent as world No. 1 and most year-end No. 1 finishes.
Representing Serbia, Djokovic led the Serbian national team to their first Davis Cup title in 2010 and to the inaugural ATP Cup title in 2020. Moreover, he won the bronze medal for Serbia at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Djokovic has won the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year award four times (2012, 2015, 2016, 2019), the BBC Sports Personality World Sport Star of the Year award in 2011 and the L'Équipe Champion of Champions award in 2021. He is also a recipient of the Order of St. Sava, the Order of Karađorđe's Star, and the Order of the Republika Srpska.
Beyond competition, Djokovic is an active philanthropist and a former ATP player council president. In August 2020, Djokovic and Vasek Pospisil announced the formation of the Professional Tennis Players Association as the first player-only association in tennis, citing the need for players to have more influence on the tour and advocating better prize money structure for lower ranked players.
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