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 Djokovic hoisting the 2019 Wimbledon trophy | |||||||||||||||
| Native name | Новак Ђоковић Novak Đoković | ||||||||||||||
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| Country (sports) |  Serbia | ||||||||||||||
| Residence | Belgrade, Serbia Monte Carlo, Monaco | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 22 May 1987 Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia (now Serbia) | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)[1][2] | ||||||||||||||
| Turned pro | 2003 | ||||||||||||||
| Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) | ||||||||||||||
| Prize money | US$184,265,269[3] (All-time leader in earnings) | ||||||||||||||
| Official website | novakdjokovic.com | ||||||||||||||
| Singles | |||||||||||||||
| Career record | 1116–220 (83.5%) | ||||||||||||||
| Career titles | 99 (3rd in the Open Era) | ||||||||||||||
| Highest ranking | No. 1 (4 July 2011) | ||||||||||||||
| Current ranking | No. 2 (24 June 2024)[4] | ||||||||||||||
| Grand Slam singles results | |||||||||||||||
| Australian Open | W (2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023) | ||||||||||||||
| French Open | W (2016, 2021, 2023) | ||||||||||||||
| Wimbledon | W (2011, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022) | ||||||||||||||
| US Open | W (2011, 2015, 2018, 2023) | ||||||||||||||
| Other tournaments | |||||||||||||||
| Tour Finals | W (2008, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2022, 2023) | ||||||||||||||
| Olympic Games | W (2024) | ||||||||||||||
| Doubles | |||||||||||||||
| Career record | 63–80 (44.1%) | ||||||||||||||
| Career titles | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Highest ranking | No. 114 (30 November 2009)[5] | ||||||||||||||
| Grand Slam doubles results | |||||||||||||||
| Australian Open | 1R (2006, 2007) | ||||||||||||||
| French Open | 1R (2006) | ||||||||||||||
| Wimbledon | 2R (2006) | ||||||||||||||
| US Open | 1R (2006) | ||||||||||||||
| Other doubles tournaments | |||||||||||||||
| Olympic Games | 2R (2016) | ||||||||||||||
| Other mixed doubles tournaments | |||||||||||||||
| Olympic Games | SF – 4th (2020) | ||||||||||||||
| Team competitions | |||||||||||||||
| Davis Cup | W (2010) | ||||||||||||||
| Hopman Cup | F (2008, 2013) | ||||||||||||||
| President of the ATP Player Council | |||||||||||||||
| In office 30 August 2016 – 30 August 2020 | |||||||||||||||
| Vice President | Kevin Anderson | ||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Eric Butorac | ||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Kevin Anderson | ||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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| Last updated on: 4 August 2024. | |||||||||||||||
Novak Djokovic (Serbian: Новак Ђоковић, Novak Đoković, pronounced [nôvaːk dʑôːkovitɕ] ;[6] born 22 May 1987) is a Serbian professional tennis player. He has been ranked No. 1 for a record total of 428 weeks in a record 13 different years by the ATP, and finished as the year-end No. 1 a record eight times.[7] Djokovic has won a record 24 Grand Slam men's singles titles, including a record ten Australian Open titles. Overall, he has won 99 singles titles, including a record 72 Big Titles: 24 majors, a record 40 Masters, a record seven year-end championships, and an Olympic gold medal. Djokovic is the only man in tennis history to be the reigning champion of all four majors at once across three different surfaces. In singles, he is the only man to achieve a triple Career Grand Slam, and the only player to complete a Career Golden Masters, a feat he has accomplished twice. Djokovic is the only player in singles to have won all of the Big Titles over the course of his career, having completed the Career Super Slam as part of that accomplishment.
Djokovic began his professional career in 2003. In 2008, at age 20, he disrupted Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal's streak of 11 consecutive majors by winning his first major title at the Australian Open. By 2010, Djokovic had begun to separate himself from the rest of the field and, as a result, the trio of Federer, Nadal and Djokovic was referred to as the "Big Three" among fans and commentators. In 2011, Djokovic ascended to No. 1 for the first time, winning three majors and a then-record five Masters titles while going 10–1 against Nadal and Federer. He remained the most successful player in men's tennis for the rest of the decade.[8] In 2015, Djokovic had his most successful season, reaching a single-season record 15 consecutive finals, winning a season-record 10 Big Titles while having a record 31 victories over the top-10 players.[9] His dominant run extended through to the 2016 French Open, where he completed his first Career Grand Slam and a non-calendar year Grand Slam, becoming the first man since Rod Laver in 1969 to hold all four majors simultaneously[10] and setting a rankings points record of 16,950. In 2017, Djokovic suffered from an elbow injury that weakened his results until the 2018 Wimbledon Championships, where he won the title while ranked No. 21 in the world. Djokovic has continued to be a dominant force on the tour since then, winning 12 major titles and completing his second and third Career Grand Slams. Due to his opposition to COVID-19 vaccine, Djokovic was forced to skip many tournaments in 2022,[11] notably the Australian Open and the US Open; two major events he was the favorite to win.[12][13] One year after the Australian visa controversy, Djokovic made a successful comeback to reclaim the 2023 Australian Open trophy,[14] and shortly after he claimed the French Open to take the outright record for most men's singles majors won in history.[15] In 2024, he became the oldest gold medalist in men's tennis singles history at the Paris Olympics.
Representing Serbia, Djokovic led the national tennis team to its first Davis Cup title in 2010, and secured the inaugural ATP Cup title in 2020. In singles, he won the gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics and the bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Djokovic has been named the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year a joint-record five times (2012, 2015, 2016, 2019, and 2024) and the 2011 BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year.[16][17] He is a recipient of the Order of Karađorđe Star, Order of St. Sava, and the Order of the Republika Srpska. Beyond competition, Djokovic was elected as the president of the ATP Player Council in 2016. He stepped down in 2020 to front a new player-only tennis association; the Professional Tennis Players Association (PTPA) founded by him and Vasek Pospisil, citing the need for players to have more influence on the tour and advocating better prize money structure for lower ranked players.[18][19] Djokovic is an active philanthropist. He is the founder of Novak Djokovic Foundation, which is committed to supporting children from disadvantaged communities.[20] Djokovic was appointed a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in 2015.[21]
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