Nole beat Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-4, 7-4 and 7-6 and lifted his 22nd major, the same as the Spaniard. This is his tenth Australian Open.
Tennis can never again separate Australia from Novak Djokovic. And the epic will tell that a little over a year after the Serb was expelled from this country for not having been vaccinated against Covid-19, he returned to become a myth, to put his name at the top of world sport.
Because Nole -during the day this Sunday- not only did he win the first Grand Slam of the season, but he also achieved a mark many thought he might not achieve: equaling Rafael Nadal with 22 Grand Slam titles and also surpassing him with 93 ATP tournament victories. The Spaniard ends up with 92.
It all started with strength. ANDhe new world number one won in the first set, thanks to a break in the fourth Games due to a double fault by his rival Stefanos Tsitsipas (3rd ATP).
Then came a more contested second round, where the Greek Yes Djokovic held his service to go to tiebreaker and define it in front of the ovation of the public who felt that he was living a historic day (7-6 (4) the Serb won).
The third set started badly for the Belgrade-born man as the Athens man broke him and had several chances to make it 2-0 but he missed them all. Fatal error, because the opportunity ended with a Break and in a way that led them to be 5-4.
It looked like a story told, but the Greek didn’t give up and leveled the score. However, the talented 35-year-old tennis player was not going to miss his appointment with immortality and in a new tiebreaker He achieved the long-awaited 7-6 (5) and shouted his achievement to the whole world.
Djokovic won his tenth trophy in Australia and his twenty-second title at the sport’s biggest tournaments. Added to this is the fact that it is only player to win every Masters 1000 at least twice . He has eight titles on grass, including seven at Wimbledon. On clay he has 18 including his two Roland Garros and 11 Masters 1000 .
Now, if the discussion revolves around hard surfaces, we must distinguish between indoor tournaments and open stadiums. In this first sub-class, he has 15 consecrations, among which his six ATP finals stand out mainly. It is outdoors that he has won the most: 51 championships.
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