Novak Djokovic He won his major in history in 2023 after conquering the Australian Open, Roland Garros and the US Open to become, at twenty-four, the male tennis player with the most titles. grand slam always. Waiting to arrange another fight against the legend next year, which he will try to do break tie with Margaret Court To keep the individual record alone, the Serbian aims at the end of the 2023 season to continue increasing his list of numbers and improve his positions in other record lists.
In one of perhaps the least appreciated but also the most important, the Serbian took a step forward during the Paris-Bercy Masters 1000 dispute. In it they qualified for the quarterfinals after adding two new victories two games were played. In this last data where Djokovic made a step on a historic level: he arrived in the French capital with 1,288 individual ATP matches played and This adds up to 1290.
The data is significant because of those two meetings ‘Nole’ surpasses Rafa Nadal, which accumulates 1288 games played. In this way, it is placed fourth in a historical statistic which reflects regularity in a sports career. Jimmy Connors leads with 1,557 matches, Roger Federer is second with 1,526 and Ivan Lendl is third with 1,310, a figure Djokovic will try to surpass in 2024.
As data from those numbers, Djokovic has also surpassed the winning percentage of the Spaniard. They won 1,079 games and lost 211, an overall win rate of 83.64%. For his part, Nadal has 1068 wins and 220 losses, with 82.91%.
Pending challenges in 2023 and others in 2024
Previously, the Serbian had pending challenges in 2023, which he sought to win in Paris-Bercy Masters 1000 to become the first player to win 40 titles individuals in contests of this category. With an all-time record of 39 in his hands, Djokovic is looking to add four dozen titles to this series of events, something that would have been unthinkable a few years ago.
Although the main challenge at the end of the season lies with the Serbian ATP Finals. With six titles under his belt, he will try to break the all-time record he shares with Roger Federer since his victory last year in Turin. He can remain, therefore, as the sole leader of this statistic, as he is already in the Grand Slam, in the Masters 1000 and in week at number 1.
To them it is a step away in addition to add the number 400 in his career, another figure that seemed impossible. This is another milestone in his sports career, in which he too aims to extend its record of seasons finishing at number 1 to eight total.
Other challenges will have to wait until 2024. In addition to that tiebreaker option on Court at the Grand Slam and the highly sought-after and complicated annual Grand Slam (in which he is only one victory away this year), it is certain that for the next will have the desire to be the third tennis player in history with 100 individual ATP titles (it has a total of 96 and may reach 98 this year) and at single tennis player with the most hard court titles (69 total, two behind Roger Federer who he could tie in 2023). Along with Olympic gold, these are just some of the main incentives for Djokovic who is having another year at record pace and seems to want more.
Novak Djokovic on the major historical lists of tennis
IN THE BIG TOURNAMENT
Men’s singles Grand Slam: 1 st (24, full note)
Total singles grand slams: 1 st (24, record shared with Margaret Court)
Career Grand Slam: 1st (only person with at least three titles in each of the majors)
ATP Finals: 1 st (6, record shared with Roger Federer)
The
Masters 1000: 1st (39, full note)
The1000 different Masters: 1st (only player to win them all. He also has at least two titles in each)
BY COUNTRY: Davis Cup and ATP Cup champions. PENDING CHALLENGE: OLYMPIC GOLD
AT NUMBER 1
Most weeks in number 1: 1st (398)
Most consecutive weeks at number 1: 4th (122 best streak; 237 Roger Federer, 160 Jimmy Connors and 157 Ivan Lendl)
Most seasons finished as number 1: 1st (7 seasons, with an option for an eighth in 2023)
ON THE TITLES
More ATP titles: 3rd (96; 109 Jimmy Connors and 103 Roger Federer)
More ATP hard court titles: 2nd (69; 71 Roger Federer)
More ATP clay court titles: 10th (19; 63 Rafael Nadal)
More ATP titles on grass: Tied for 7th (8; 19 Roger Federer)
More ATP titles out there: 2nd (79; 90 Rafael Nadal)
More titles within the ATP: Outside the top 10 (17; 53 Jimmy Connors)
More ATP finals: 4th (136; 164 Jimmy Connors, 157 Roger Federer and 146 Ivan Lendl)
IN THE MATCHES:
Most ATP wins: 3rd (1079; 1274 Jimmy Connors, 1251 Roger Federer)
Most ATP matches are played: 4th (1290; 1557 Jimmy Connors, 1526 Roger Federer and 1310 Ivan Lendl)
Source: La Verdad
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