| Biography | Novak Djokovic (Serbian: Novak Ðokovic; born 22 May 1987) is a Serbian professional tennis player who is currently ranked the World No. 1 by the ATP and is ranked the year-end World No. 1 for both 2011 and 2012.[2][3] Several tennis critics and former and current players consider Djokovic to be one of the greatest tennis players of all time.[a] He holds several men's world records of the Open Era: becoming the youngest player in the open era to have reached the semifinals of all four Grand Slam events both separately and consecutively[11], winning two consecutive Australian Open titles (tied with seven other players) and playing the longest Grand Slam mens singles final in recorded history (5 hours 53 minutes).[12] Djokovic's ATP tournament records include winning 31 consecutive ATP World Tour Masters 1000 series matches, playing in the finals at all nine ATP Masters 1000 tournaments (a record matched by Roger Federer), and being one of the three players (alongside Andre Agassi and Federer) to win seven.
He has won five Grand Slam singles titles: the 2008, 2011, and 2012 Australian Open; the 2011 Wimbledon Championships; and the 2011 US Open. By winning three Majors in 2011, Djokovic became the sixth male player in the open era to win three Majors in a calendar year. He is the first male player representing Serbia to win a Major singles title. By reaching the 2012 French Open final, he became the ninth player in the open era to reach the final of all four Grand Slam singles tournaments (and became only the fifth to do so consecutively.) Amongst other titles, he won the Tennis Masters Cup in 2008 and 2012 and was on the Serbian team which won the 2010 Davis Cup. He also won the Bronze medal in men's singles at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. He has won 13 Masters 1000 series titles (breaking a single season record with five titles in 2011), placing him fourth on the list since its inception in 1990.
Djokovic has won numerous awards, including the 2011 Laureus World Sports Award for Sportsman of the Year[13] and the 2012 Best Male Tennis Player ESPY Award. He has won the ATP World Tour Player of the Year twice consecutively, in 2011 and 2012. He is a recipient of the Order of Saint Sava and the Order of Karadorde's Star. |