Djokovic and a 20 -year conquest

The Geneva Cup expands to help Djokovic overtake Nadal in the number of years to win the title. Since 2006, Djokovic has never spent a year of empty -handed. But in the last two years, he has only won twice - in the Paris Olympic Games and Geneva. It was an unprecedented conquest for two decades. In 2006, Djokovic defeated the current teacher of Hubert Hurkacz, Nicolas Massu to win the ATP 250 land in the Netherlands. At that time, the young Djokovic was only 19 years old. In terms of winning performance, that number is not too different from 71 championships at hard yard events. Starting with two trophies in 2006, he won 5 more championships until he was 20 years old, including his debut Major to expand the 2008. Since 2015, he has always won at least six championships each year. In 2015 and 2016, Serbia player won a total of 18 titles, including 4 Grand Slam and 9 Masters 1000.

Djokovic's achievement began to slow down from 2017, after a serious injury in the wrist. But for half a decade from 2018 to 2023, Djokovic still regularly pocketed more Grand Slam. Particularly in the 2023 season, Nole has seven championships - achievements on par with the peak period of 2016. That seems to be his last sublimation year, with three Grand Slam and ATP Finals.

Djokovic won 1,140 matches and lost 229 matches from the beginning of his career. His number of failures increased in the last two years, causing him to drop to the number of six worlds when Roland Garros started this week. "It is hard to expect more than ", he said when holding the Geneva championship expanded. "The miracle has helped me win the championship, because Hurkacz is better in most of the match." He said: "" I just stopped when the passion and desire to compete ". The expanded Geneva championship will help Djokovic more confident when entering the Grand Slam tournament that he is probably the lowest ever rated ever. That is the question that takes time to answer. But since 2019, no one has been able to defeat Djokovic in Roland Garros. The nearest person who did it was Dominic Thiem, the best land player of the 9x generation to lower Nole in the semi -finals of 2019 after the year of the Set. Both Nadal and Thiem retired last year.

In both his career, Djokovic proved that he liked to shine in adversity, when the doubts about him rise - as before the final of the Paris Olympic Games 2024 with Carlos Alcaraz. At this year's Roland Garros, Nole probably has to defeat both Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner to be crowned - something no one has done in the nearest 5 Grand Slam. But this is what Djokovic has done at ATP Finals 2023.

"I have to live with new reality, accept early failures in the tournament ", Djokovic talks about himself, when he spent a year and a half of his hands on the tour. Matteo Arnaldi, Alejandro Tabilo or Botic van de Zandschulp has crashed on the alert bell for Nole in recent years. But the result at Roland Garros will be an important indicator for stopping or going on the 24 -grand Slam.