Novak Djokovic

After missing last year's tournament when he was deported for being unvaccinated for Covid-19, the Serbian star beat Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece in ...

Ahead of the tournament he aggravated his hamstring, forcing him to take the court wearing a thick strapping around the injured area until the final. [the injured star Nadal](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/18/sports/tennis/rafael-nadal-australian-open.html) on the career Grand Slam list — and in the G.O.A.T. He hobbled through the first week, playing without the magical movement that is the foundation of his game. In the fourth round Alex de Minaur, playing in front of a hometown crowd ready to cheer him into battle, won just five games. Paul had played tennis his whole life but this time, the seconds between points, between the moment he hit a ball and then was on the run chasing after the next one, had never passed so quickly. Andrey Rublev, a Russian with a fearsome forehand and serve, paced in the hallway in the minutes before being called onto the court. To win a 22nd Grand Slam men’s singles title and draw even with his rival Rafael Nadal at the top of the list. “I don’t know what else to say.” The year’s first Grand Slam event runs from Jan. “I would like to have a quieter life,” she said. Check. He dropped only a single set in seven matches.

Factbox on Serbia's Novak Djokovic, who defeated Greece's Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-3 7-6(4) 7-6(5) in the Australian Open final on Sunday to tie the men's ...

* Came from two match points down to defeat Federer in the final and claim his fifth Wimbledon title. * Beat Murray again in the French Open final that year to win the claycourt major on his 12th attempt. * With 2019 champion Nadal and Federer opting to skip the 2020 U.S. Returns to the number one ranking and ties Nadal's record of 22 Grand Slam titles. * Won third Wimbledon title by defeating Federer in the final. * Defeated Federer in the 2011 U.S. Capped off the year by winning the U.S. * Made Grand Slam debut as a qualifier at the 2005 Australian Open. Open crown for the third time. Beat Federer in U.S. Had elbow surgery following a last-16 exit. Open 2011, 2015, 2018)

Novak Djokovic's latest Australian Open triumph tied him with Rafael Nadal for the most Slams in men's tennis. It's time he's considered the greatest to ...

But if nobody ever strikes a tennis ball again, you'd be hard-pressed to not have Djokovic at the top of the pile. But even prior to the injury, the Spaniard was in the midst of perhaps the greatest form slump of his professional career. 1 player in the world (373) and the most Masters 1000 titles (38), and he has accumulated more prize money than anyone else in the sport. "The way he's taking care of his body and approaching everything ... Some prominent figures in the sport are doubting he will ever return to anything close to his best. Earlier in the tournament, he said, "I know I'm in the last quarter of my career," and while that may be accurate, his tennis would suggest he's not close to being finished. The reality is Djokovic and Nadal are locked at 22-22. Djokovic was or would have been the odds-on favorite in all four of those majors. 4, was to be his greatest challenge, but he passed that test with ease, repeating the result of the 2021 French Open final. For the third time in his career, Djokovic dropped just one set along his journey to an Australian Open title. Djokovic led the field in service games won (94%), ranked in the top 10 for first serve points won and saved 79% of break points. As Djokovic hugged each member of his players' box, and before he was able to raise the Norman Brookes Challenge Cup, a familiar discussion began to circulate.

Only briefly challenged in the final, Djokovic was simply better at the most crucial moments and beat Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-3, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (5). As a bonus, ...

Djokovic and his father said Srdjan thought he was with Serbian fans. “And I want to thank all the people that made me feel welcome, made me feel comfortable, to be in Melbourne, to be in Australia.” He took a 4-1 lead in the first, then reeled off the last three points. The tournament banned spectators from carrying flags of Russia or Belarus, saying they would cause disruption because of the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Yet Djokovic accomplished all he could have possibly wanted in his return: He resumed his winning ways at [Melbourne Park](https://apnews.com/article/sports-elena-rybakina-aryna-sabalenka-australian-open-tennis-ecdf852ed04ec0c888e061710693f543) and made it back to the top of tennis, declaring: "This probably is the, I would say, biggest victory of my life." “I did everything possible,” said Tsitsipas, who also would have moved to No. 10 to the seven from Wimbledon, three from the U.S. Two misses by Tsitsipas followed: A backhand long, a forehand wide. The 35-year-old from Serbia stretched his unbeaten streak in Melbourne to 28 matches, the longest run there in the Open era, which dates to 1968. Keep in mind: It's not as though Tsitsipas played all that poorly, other than a rash of early miscues that seemed to be more a product of tension than anything. Might Djokovic relent? Open — where he also was absent last year because of no coronavirus shots — and two from the French Open, to match rival Rafael Nadal for the most by a man.

El serbio cerró la gira oceánica con dos títulos y el regreso al N°1 del mundo.

En la segunda parte se balancearon los niveles de los protagonistas, situación que permitió que la igualdad se mantuviera durante gran parte de la manga. La conclusión del torneo se definió en un tiebreak que le dio a Novak Djokovic la consagración por 6-3, 7-6 (4) y 7-6 (5) en dos horas y 56 minutos de juego. Con la Rod Laver Arena electrizante debido a la cantidad de aficionados de uno lado y del otro, se largó la definición del título en Australia con Stefanos Tsitsipas (4°) mostrando más errores que aciertos (11 errores no forzados y 9 winners contra 7 y 9 del rival) en los primeros minutos de competencia.

Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney. (CNN) — El resultado fue familiar, la facilidad con la que se logró tal vez sí tuvo algo de sorpresa.

Los errores de derecha arruinarían las posibilidades de Tsitsipas en el desempate que decidió el set. El serbio miró hacia su equipo y los miembros de su familia -su padre Srdjan no parecía estar presente- y se señaló la cabeza y el corazón. Incluso cuando regresó a su asiento en la cancha, Djokovic ocultó su rostro en una toalla, las cámaras de televisión captaron el sonido de su llanto continuo. Tsitsipas opuso una mayor resistencia en el segundo set, se redujeron los errores no forzados, el servicio se volvió más potente y ganó un punto de set, pero fue Djokovic quien se impuso en el rally de 15 golpes que siguió. El año pasado, Djokovic no pudo defender su título luego de ser deportado del país por su estado de vacunación contra el covid-19. (CNN) — El resultado fue familiar, la facilidad con la que se logró tal vez sí tuvo algo de sorpresa.

Novak Djokovic derrota a Stefanos Tsitsipas para ganar su 10mo Abierto de Australia y 22do trofeo del Grand Slam.

Novak Djokovic dio un paso más hacia la eternidad este domingo en Melbourne. El serbio consiguió llegar a los 22 títulos grandes de Rafael Nadal al derrotar ...

3 del Pepperstone ATP Rankings, la mejor posición de su carrera, el lunes después de llegar a su primera final en Melbourne. “Este es uno de los torneos más complicados que he jugado en mi vida”, dijo Djokovic, que no pudo estar en Melbourne en 2022 y llegó al torneo de este año con un problema en el tendón de la corva izquierdo. Tsitsipas comenzó el partido salvando dos bolas de break, con Djokovic presionando desde el arranque para conseguir marcar distancias en la final. Creo que habla por sí solo lo que has logrado hasta ahora”, dijo Tsitsipas durante la ceremonia de entrega de trofeos. Es uno de los mejores de nuestro deporte”. Novak Djokovic dio un paso más hacia la eternidad este domingo en Melbourne.

By virtue of his 10th Australian Open title, Djokovic will retake his spot as the world No. 1.

In the days leading up to this year's Australian Open, Djokovic said there were "Only the team and family knows what we have been though in the last four or five weeks," he said. not playing last year coming back this year," Djokovic said after the match, He smelled a victory in the final tiebreaker and promptly jumped out to a 5-0 lead before ending the match. Moments after the victory, Djokovic found coach Goran Ivanisevic in the crowd and went to celebrate with him and others. He jumped out to 4-1 advantage in the first one after it hit 4-4, winning the last three points to take the second set.

Novak Djokovic igualó el récord con su 22º título de Grand Slam al ganar el Abierto de Australia 2023.

Hemos vivido dos semanas históricas en Melbourne con Djokovic, que ha logrado extender su récord con una 10ª corona del Abierto de Australia. Con este victoria ante Tsitsipas en la final, el serbio ya acumula 17 triunfos consecutivos ante rivales Top 5 en el torneo. La victoria devolverá a Djokovic al No. Los únicos jugadores que han ganado un 'Gran Título' con un ratio superior a uno de cada cinco eventos jugados fueron Federer (4,4, 54/240) y Pete Sampras (4,9, 30/147). * Los otros cuatro títulos de Grand Slam de Becker tuvieron lugar antes de 1990. Djokovic se ha situado con siete 'Grandes Títulos' sobre sus máximos rivales.

Chris Almeida: We're here in the United States on championship Sunday, and on the other side of the world guess what happened? Novak Djokovic won the ...

And I think that opened the door for other players to have some confidence and step up against Federer. So, to me, the question is what is the rest of the field going to do about this guy? This guy's number one and I've got to figure out what I have to do to defeat him and Djokovic tailored his game around I'm gonna go after these two guys who are older than I am. He doesn't need the ranking points. JW: He doesn't need the money. He's got the size and speed and he beats Djokovic in a major final and...then he has a very weird 2022 and doesn't seem to be the same player that he was 15 months ago. And you didn't have a lot of confidence that he was going to be the guy. JW: This is just someone who has these survival instincts and this mental toughness and this ability to compartmentalize. And time is supposed to be working to his advantage in this matchup! Also, somebody raised this point to me: in some ways, has he built in extra time? This is 10 finals and he's never lost a final. It doesn't really seem like any of the younger players on tour are going to be able to stop him.

Novak Djokovic is the King of Melbourne Park. The 35-year-old Serbian won his 10th Australian Open singles title on Sunday after defeating Greece's Stefanos ...

An angry and aggressive Djokovic rose to the occasion and squeaked by Tsitsipas in the tiebreaker to grab a two sets to love lead. The Serb has already spent 373 weeks in the top spot and has finished as the year-end No. The final set was another battle with intensity increasing on the court while supporters became much more vocal in the stands. 1 when the new ATP rankings come out on Monday. He only accumulated 22 unforced errors will executing 36 winners in the match. This year, the No.

Deported a year ago and unable to play in 2022's first Grand Slam tournament, Djokovic deeply felt this major title, his 22nd, calling it “a huge relief.”

A little more than a year ago, he and Ivanisevic were at Melbourne Airport, being escorted to their plane out of the country. 1 for the first time with a first major title, did not look quite as crestfallen as he did after losing a two-set lead to Djokovic in the 2021 French Open final. “I think tennis is in good hands with great characters, great personalities and great players, but we’re still not going anywhere.” He and Nadal, who won the Australian Open in Djokovic’s absence last year, are back in a tie with 22 Grand Slam singles titles apiece. Like Federer, whose wife Mirka’s support on the home front and on the road with their young children allowed him to compete successfully on tour into his late 30s, Djokovic’s wife, Jelena, is giving him the same flexibility with their young son and daughter. And however full circle it all felt in Melbourne on Sunday night, Djokovic is hardly done searching for more titles, more ways to win. But the reality for Tsitsipas is that Djokovic won that first Grand Slam title in 2008 in Melbourne at age 20 and won four more majors before he turned 25. Instead, whether he realized it or not, he tried to take a page on Sunday night from Djokovic’s early-career playbook: when the Serb was getting beaten repeatedly by more established champions like Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. Djokovic explained that his father had intended to celebrate with Serbian fans as he had been doing throughout the tournament. “Look, a lot of people doubted and still doubt that I was injured,” he said, explaining that he would provide evidence at some stage. “I would like to have a quieter life,” she said. With the Australian Open title and the No.

The Serbian tennis pro defeated Stefanos Tsitsipas, earning the men's singles title over three sets.

He currently holds more Australian Open titles that any other player, male or female, and continues a winning streak after claiming his [seventh Wimbledon title](https://www.vogue.com/article/novak-djokovic-wimbledon-2022-win) against Nick Kyrgios in 2022. Today’s match marked Djokovic’s 33rd major final and Tsitsipas’s second; the Greek player lost his other major final, at the 2021 French Open, to Djokovic as well. His win today marks Djokovic’s 22nd Grand Slam—a record that he shares with Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal.

Novak Djokovic made history once again Sunday when he clinched a record-equalling 22nd Grand Slam title at the Australian Open.

“It [was] just a huge pride and satisfaction that I feel at the moment,” Djokovic said. [Australian Open](https://www.atptour.com/en/tournaments/australian-open/580/overview) title aged 20 in 2008 before he rose to No. “Then it was just a matter of survival every single match, trying to take it to the next round. “Of course, when I went into my box, I just think emotionally collapsed there and teared up with my mother and my brother, when I gave them a hug. Of course, it makes me incredibly proud, but it also is a huge relief because it hasn't been smooth sailing, so to say, on and off the court in the last three to four weeks.” [Novak Djokovic](https://www.atptour.com/en/players/novak-djokovic/d643/overview) made history once again Sunday when he clinched a record-equalling 22nd Grand Slam title at the [Australian Open](https://www.atptour.com/en/tournaments/australian-open/580/overview). I don't have intentions to stop here. Of course, 35 is not 25, even though I want to believe it is. The Serbian produced a ruthless display to overcome [Stefanos Tsitsipas](https://www.atptour.com/en/players/stefanos-tsitsipas/te51/overview), rising to No. I really don't want to stop here. “I never really liked comparing myself to others, but of course it's a privilege to be part of the discussion as one of the greatest players of all time. If people see me this way, of course it's very flattering because I know that I give as much effort and energy into trying to win slams as anybody else.

Despite drama over a hamstring injury, a scandal regarding his father's behavior, and criticism of his vaccination status, the Serbian great took home the ...

In set three, with Djokovic serving at 6–5 in the tiebreak—championship point—he drove a forehand to Tsitsipas’s forehand corner, and Tsitsipas, on the stretch, sailed one last forehand long. Did he arrive with that wounded sense he seems at times to cultivate, the sense of being slighted, disrespected? That means, come March, unless he gets vaccinated, he cannot play Indian Wells or the Miami Open, two of the tour’s biggest hard-court events. Then, late last week, a video emerged of Djokovic’s father, Srdjan, celebrating a quarterfinal Djokovic victory Wednesday night with fans on the Australian Open grounds. Interestingly, Djokovic chose to test it from the opening moments of the match—sending ball after ball toward Tsitsipas’s forehand wing, varying pace, height, spin, and depth, drawing surprising errors even in routine mid-court rallies, and, perhaps, wearing down Tsitsipas’s confidence in the shot that he is most confident of. What tension there was to the match occurred in the tiebreaks that ended the second and third sets. In both of them, Djokovic established early leads but tightened up—the crowd support for Tsitsipas from Melbourne’s sizable Greek community seemed to get to him, especially in that first tiebreak—and let Tsitsipas back in. Djokovic held comfortably the first two times he served—his serving throughout the tournament was superb, and, in turn, he put relentless pressure on Tsitsipas’s serve—and he earned two break points (but failed to convert them) the first time Tsitsipas served. Tsitsipas’s best shot is his forehand, a long, flowing, often punishing one that is among the best in the game. [Carlos Alcaraz](https://www.newyorker.com/sports/sporting-scene/what-makes-carlos-alcaraz-so-good), who is injured and was forced to skip the Australian Open.) A Djokovic triumph, more often than not, is a methodical grind, an exercise in inevitability. The tone of the match was set in its very first minutes. It should take nothing away from that achievement to note that professional tennis, in the Open era that began in 1968, has come to be played mostly on hard courts, and that those who play on the men’s tour have mostly built games—big serves, big forehands—to win on hard surfaces.

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Novak Djokovic is a 10-time Australian Open champion. He has drawn level with Rafael Nadal for the most Grand Slam titles won by a ...

Through his first seven service games -- meaning, the entire first set plus his first service game of the second -- his first serve percentage was at 76%. [Carlos Alcaraz](http://www.espn.com/sports/tennis/players/profile?playerId=3782) pulled out of the Open on the eve of the tournament. Tsitsipas was broken only in his second service game but was laboring on serve the entire set. According to ESPN Stats & Information data, going into Sunday's final, if the Serbian champion won the first set of a Slam decider, he had a win-loss record of 13-3. He has drawn level with [Rafael Nadal](https://www.espn.com/sports/tennis/players/profile?playerId=261) for the most Grand Slam titles won by a man (22). [Novak Djokovic](https://www.espn.com/sports/tennis/players/profile?playerId=296) is a 10-time Australian Open champion.

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Novak Djokovic is a 10-time Australian Open champion. He has drawn level with Rafael Nadal for the most Grand Slam titles won by a ...

[Carlos Alcaraz](http://www.espn.com/sports/tennis/players/profile?playerId=3782) pulled out of the Open on the eve of the tournament. Through his first seven service games -- meaning, the entire first set plus his first service game of the second -- his first serve percentage was at 76%. Tsitsipas was broken only in his second service game but was laboring on serve the entire set. According to ESPN Stats & Information data, going into Sunday's final, if the Serbian champion won the first set of a Slam decider, he had a win-loss record of 13-3. He has drawn level with [Rafael Nadal](http://www.espn.com/sports/tennis/players/profile?playerId=261) for the most Grand Slam titles won by a man (22). [Novak Djokovic](http://www.espn.com/sports/tennis/players/profile?playerId=296) is a 10-time Australian Open champion.

For almost two decades, we have become accustomed to Novak Djokovic winning grand slams. But seeing the world No. 1 sobbing on the floor as he celebrated ...

I don’t say 100%, but 97% of the players, on Saturday when you get results of the MRI, you go straight to the referee office and pull out of the tournament. Of course, 35 is not 25, even though I want to believe it is. I don’t have intention to stop here,” he said. In the end, we have a happy ending.” But he was throughout the entire tournament, so it’s fine. That was the whole conversation. “I could see that he’s a bit sad. “We both agreed it would probably be better that he is not there. “So it was not easy for him. Last year, Djokovic was unable to defend his title after being deported from the country over his Covid-19 vaccination status. The victory also returned him to the world No. 1 sobbing on the floor as he celebrated his [Australian Open victory](http://www.cnn.com/2023/01/28/tennis/novak-djokovic-stefanos-tsitsipas-australian-open-final-preview-spt-intl/index.html) with his family and team was a first.

Novak Djokovic has returned to No. 1 in the Pepperstone ATP Rankings after winning his 22nd Grand Slam title at the Australian Open.