At this point in the match, however, these issues were secondary: New Yorkers love nothing more than a happening, and witnessing the first Grand Slam in more than three decades fit the bill. So Djokovic was their guy. Djokovic held to make it , and Medvedev again double-faulted on match point, to make it on the next game. But with the New York fans again whistling during his serve, Medvedev refused to unravel.
He unleashed a miles-per-hour rocket that could only backhand into the net. He fell to the ground on his side, having won his first Grand Slam tournament. Medvedev, for his part, apologized for spoiling the Grand Slam celebration. Take that, Roger and Rafa. Djokovic will have plenty of opportunities to back up that claim, and break his Grand Slam tie with Federer and Nadal.
Coming off a year in which he went in Grand Slam tournament matches before Sunday, Djokovic can carry good vibes into next season. The calendar year Grand Slam, however, just proved too much. In the season, Djokovic played the semifinals of the French Open and Wimbledon. He competed for Serbia in the Beijing Olympics and won a bronze medal in singles tennis. In , the Serbian national team clinched the Davis Cup trophy for Serbia for the first time in history.
Djokovic went on to win 43 matches in a row in , the only player in the world to achieve such a run. That same year, he won the Australian Open, Wimbledon and the U. Open to become the world's No. In , Djokovic won the Australian Open singles title, and made it to the semifinals at Wimbledon. He was beaten in the semifinals, however, by longtime rival Federer — who went on to win the Wimbledon final against Andy Murray. Later that year, Djokovic faced off against Murray himself in the final at the U.
He fought hard against Murray, but he ended up losing the match after five sets. For the third year in a row, Djokovic took home the men's singles title at the Australian Open in He was the runner-up at Wimbledon that year, losing in the final to Andy Murray. At the U. Open, Djokovic was the top-ranked player. He easily dispatched his opponents in the first three rounds of play, but he lost in the final to Rafael Nadal.
In , Djokovic claimed his second Wimbledon title in an epic five-set win over seven-time champion Roger Federer. It was his seventh Grand Slam title.
Open, Djokovic defeated Andy Murray to reach the semifinals for the eighth time. Djokovic kicked off by winning the Australian Open over Andy Murray after a heated battle on the blue court.
It was his fifth Australian Open title and the eighth Grand Slam title of his career. He then knocked off nine-time champion Rafael Nadal in the quarterfinals of the French Open but fell short in his bid to claim his first French crown with a loss to Stan Wawrinka in the final. Djokovic was back in the thick of things at Wimbledon that July, defeating Richard Gasquet in the semifinals before upending Federer to win his third singles title on the famed grass courts.
Facing Federer again in the rain-delayed U. The Swiss has conquered However, he failed to do so against his arch-rival, Novak Djokovic. The time Grand Slam champion was certainly unsuccessful to edge past Novak Djokovic at the crucial moments in the tiebreakers, which led him to lose the match in their last two clashes. The reason why Federer lost the Wimbledon finals was he wanted to finish the points too early during the tiebreakers and was too hasty to approach on the net backed by a weak forehand.
Roger Federer was definitely the inferior player between the two when it comes to conversion of breakpoints opportunities in all of their previous five matches that he lost. He also created fewer breakpoints opportunities for himself in all these matches. Djokovic earned 44 break point opportunities combined in their last five meetings and faced only 22 breakpoints on his serve.
He could manage to win only 71 out of points while returning on the second serve. Novak Djokovic dominated the points more than Federer in their last four matches before the Wimbledon Championships While the Swiss dominated less than 0.
The Serbian was the inferior player at the Championships when it came to points dominance. This was opposite: not enough time had elapsed. Like a plate not fully cleaned, there were remnants of his French meal that were still apparent Tuesday. Sorry Jon—am not buying the niche sport argument. If an individual gets an opportunity to ask Nole a question—not knowing the stats is not acceptable.
Read up! Deepak, New York. But there is a tension between the knowledgeable tennis type and the mainstream broadcaster. I would love for, say, Stephen A. Smith or Dan Patrick to spend more time in and on tennis.
It seems like every day another player pulls out of the Tokyo Olympics. For a while there, I thought the Olympics were equal to a major. What happened? The Sidewinder! Wang Qiang has skipped Wimbledon expressly to train for the Olympics.
Hi Jon, So Venus won her 90th match at Wimbledon. Do you remember when her father said that she was thinking of retirement after losing to Hingis in the U. Open semifinals? Joe Johnson, Easton PA.
I say, great.
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