It was the longest Masters match and semifinal in Open Era history. World No 1 Djokovic has the best head-to-head record against the 12-time Roland Garros champion on clay as he has beaten him seven times with the first coming in Madrid in 2011 and the last one in Rome in 2016. 13 to No. Novak Djokovic has won 2 French Open titles. Djokovic has the most wins over top 10 ranked players in the Open Era and is only one of the two players (the other being Federer) in the Open Era to reach 200 top-10 wins. Djokovic is the second player in history to win a Grand Slam singles title at a tournament ten or more times, the other being Nadal at the French Open. Djokovic has had ten 20+ match win streaks in his career: 43 (201011), 29 (201920), 28 (201314), 28 (2015), 23 (2015), 22 (201213), 22 (2018), 22 (2021), 20 The rivalry shifted in Djokovic's favor this season. [12] Overall, he has reached a record 56 finals. Djokovic is the player with the most clay-court match wins over Nadal, with eight. Djokovic is the oldest ATP year-end number one player. [27], Djokovic had a 38 match indoorcourt winning streak between 2012 and 2015. [citation needed] John McEnroe called it one of the top 5 matches of all time. His ten titles at Australian Open is an all-time record. One of the biggest rivalries in the sport began with Rafael Nadal winning five straight finals against Djokovic from 2007 to 2010 (including three Masters and one Grand Slam final). [citation needed] Both players produced incredible tennis in what was a mirror image of the 2012 Australian Open final. Answer (1 of 2): Chris Evert in her youth was like an assassin on the court. [25] He has a 243108 (69.2%) record against players who were, at the time the match was played, ranked in the top 10. From the 2010 Davis Cup final to the 2011 French Open, Djokovic held a 43-match win streak, behind only Guillermo Vilas (46 matches in 1977) and Ivan Lendl (44 matches from 1981 to 1982) on the all-time list. Other ITF/ATP team events played by them are Hopman Cup by Djokovic, United Cup by Nadal and Laver Cup by both for Europe. The former world No. [33] The match, at 4 hours and 3 minutes, was the longest three-set singles match on the ATP Tour in the Open Era (later surpassed by the Olympic semifinal between Roger Federer and Juan Martn del Potro in 2012). [28] In their third consecutive meeting at the French Open, a dominant Nadal defeated Djokovic in the semifinals en route to his fourth consecutive French Open title. In his statement, Djokovic said he had a negative rapid antigen test before this event and only learned of his positive polymerase chain reaction test afterward. Djokovic eventually lost in the final to Stan Wawrinka. [63], The 2011 US Open final had Nadal as the defending champion after defeating Djokovic the prior year but with Djokovic having defeated Nadal in five finals including a victory over Nadal in the Wimbledon final earlier in the year, expectations were high on Djokovic to win his first US Open title. The tournaments won by Djokovic are bolded. [72] Djokovic would go on to win the title, becoming the first man in the Open Era to win each of the four Grand Slams on multiple occasions. With bagel set, Nadal defeats Djokovic in Rome for record 34th Masters Djokovic has spent a record 381 weeks as world No.1. Novak Djokovic career statistics - Wikipedia Nadal next played Djokovic in the China Open final, where he was comprehensively beaten by the Serb. The Swiss has gotten the better of Djokovic no fewer than three times in the final of the Western & Southern Open (2009, 2012, and 2015). In the French Open final of 2020, Nadal handed his rival a bagel in the first set before going on to win in straight sets. #2. When it comes to conceding, Federer has been humbled 0-6 only 6 times in his career of which 5 came after he turned Pro. 3 players who have beaten Novak Djokovic the highest number of times in Masters 1000 and Grand Slam finals. Zverev stormed back from a set and a service break down to beat Djokovic, the world's No. [5] It is one of two rivalries in men's tennis (the other one being the Djokovic-Murray rivalry) to involve meetings in the finals of all four majors, including four consecutive finals in 201112, and a record 29 Masters matches.